Google’s worked hard to cultivate a warm and fuzzy image, and by and large, the effort’s succeeded.  Still, the company’s reputation took a little bit of damage when it recently classified some legitimate blogs as spam.

It’s not always a good idea to try experimental features; gosh knows enough final products aren’t remotely stable.  But a few new things have been made available within Blogger in Draft, and they’re definitely worth checking out.

Google’s Blogger service opened up a new feature, scheduled posting, to automatically put up an entry at a future time.

The good news: some Blogger users will be able to access handy Analytics reports.  The bad news: "some" probably doesn’t include you.  Yes, Google Analytics for Blogger has officially entered private beta.

Blogger has repeatedly been ranked among Google’s top properties, and now one of the people who got it there is gone.  Blogger’s product manager, Eric Case, spent his last day at Google on Friday.

I am curious if anyone else has noticed a trend over the past year or so where people (I have nobody specific in mind) in the search marketing business seem to increasingly gravitate towards becoming a “SEO celebrity”. It’s a bit like like moths to a flame, really.

Hey Everyone, The Zune Software is currently up on Zune.net.

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One of the most basic things about reading (or writing) English is the left-to-right motion.  Blogger’s now able to accommodate right-to-left movements, however, and as a result, has become available in Persian, Hebrew, and Arabic.

BidVertiser has recently added the ability to integrate its services with FeedBurner, Blogger and WordPress:

Earlier this week, Twitter suffered an outage, and we weren’t too kind about the whole thing.  Fair’s fair, though, and it’s now our duty to report that when Blogger went down yesterday, Twitter may have played an instrumental part in getting it back up.

In Friday’s post, I admitted the social media can be a waste of time.  I talked about doing some unproductive things online and how, despite that (or even because of that), marketers should be paying a LOT of attention to social media marketing.  But as many of you have commented in the first post, social media is really not a waste o

Fouad al-Farhan’s criticism of the Saudi government earned him an investigation by authorities, followed by his detention for questioning.

Hundreds of blogs on the Bloggers service have been found to contain links to servers that will infect visitors with the notorious Storm worm.

Things just keep looking worse for Facebook’s Beacon: Coca-Cola and other advertisers are opting out of the program; there may be legal troubles ahead; and some investigative security work shows that Beacon sends information about user activity even when logged out of Facebook.

The results of the inaugural Blogger’s Choice Awards are in, and they’re kind of stupid, if I may say so from my high horse, as though the same people picked them that are dumbing down our news, entertainment programming, and well, everything else.

Slav Ben Ari sends in this news bit from his blog – I cannot read Hebrew and can’t confirm this info:

In a recent court case against Google, it was decided that a Blogspot blogger from the US may keep her anonymity, considering free speech protection rights.

Mayer Fertig at the Jewish Star on November 2nd reports (my link/ emphasis):

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A school board member failed to convince a New York State court that Google should hand over details about anonymous critics on a Blogger-hosted blog.

U.S. blogger Eric Turkewitz, a lawyer who writes a personal injury blog has been told by car rental company Avis to remove an image of its logo from his blog posting or face charges of trademark infringement.