Google bigger than God?-This, among other Google Trends, found by Steve Rubel.
Semagic
Semagic, the best Livejournal client for Windows, is now also a decent general blogging client. Works with MSN Spaces, Xanga, and others. I’d wish it fetched my WordPress categories automatically.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl will have Solid Snake
IGN: E3 2006: Super Smash Bros. Brawl–Solid Snake from Metal Gear is a playable character. It’ll be weird seeing him fight Pikachu, though probably not as weird as Mario and Yoshi playing basketball against Lebron and Kobe.
Blogging History
Chronicles of the American Civil War and the The Blog of Henry David Thoreau-Both take excerpts from real life journals and news stories from one day in history and put it on a blog. Very cool.
Blogs are good for a career now
Blogs ‘essential’ to a good career– Says blogs can help you network, get a job, train you, and help you get noticed. It’s really good for “fields like business and law,” says USNews (for whom I worked for thanks to working on the Calstuff blog). Good reversal of fortune, as last year people were getting fired over blogging.
Firefox 1.5.0.2
Firefox 1.5.0.2: Finally an Intel Mac version and a fix for that annoying Gmail crash, among other fixes.
Metroblogging Azeroth
Metroblogging Azeroth: The town world (thanks Tony) of Azeroth in the game World of Warcraft has more than 5 million people in it, which would make it the 28th most populous city in the world and . There’s also a lot interesting stuff going on there, so why not have a blog about it. (via Boing Boing)
FBI can’t afford to give email addresses to 8,000 agents
From Slate:
Two weeks ago, the FBI’s chief information officer admitted that the bureau couldn’t afford to provide e-mail addresses for 8,000 of its 30,000 employees.
Looks like they should try to sign up for Gmail for your domain.
TypePad – Widgets
TypePad – Widgets: Not to be outdone by WordPress, Typepad’s now got their own set of widgets for use on your blog. Hope they release a plugin soon for Movable Type installations. (via Download Squad)
WordPress Widgets for Self-hosted WordPress Blogs
Automattic » WordPress Widgets– Making it a lot easier to edit the sidebar (and possibly more) of your WordPress blog. Supports RSS, so you can already do a lot. It’s already a function of WordPress.com. (via Andy Skelton)