Neowin News Feed for: Blogs

WordPress now powers over 50 million websites

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:32:56 +0000

In a milestone event, free and open source blogging platform WordPress has surpassed 50,000,000 installations on websites, and this number is increasing all the time. This milestone comes just over eight years since the initial... Read more...

Microsoft starts two new blogs focused on Windows 7

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:48:40 +0000

Microsoft has started two new blogs centered around Windows 7, to complement the existing "Engineering Windows 7" blog most Microsoft enthusiasts are already used to reading. The first one hosted on the Microsoft Developer... Read more...

Google Adds Blogs to Universal Search

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:16:21 +0000

Google will soon add blogs as a new feature in its Universal Search results, marking the first new genre since the company launched the initiative May 16. Starting this week or next, queries on the... Read more...

AOL takes page from blogs, relaunches news

Tom Warren — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:05:29 +0000

Time Warner Inc. plans to launch a test of its overhauled news portal on Tuesday, drawing influences from the uncluttered design of popular Internet blogs. The online division of the world's largest media company said... Read more...

U.S. Army clamping down on soldiers' blogs

Thu, 03 May 2007 13:45:06 +0000

Soldiers in war zones are already subject to restrictions on blogging and public posts, but the U.S. Army is tightening restrictions on veterans who return and begin posting online, in hopes ensure sensitive information about... Read more...

Blogs Now Infested With Offensive Content

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:28:32 +0000

The Internet's blog sites have become overgrown with a variety of unpleasant content, including porn, offensive language, hate posting, and malware, a new threat analysis has suggested. According to Scansafe's Monthly Global Threat Report for... Read more...

China Censors 1.8 Million Blogs

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:44:24 +0000

According to LiveJournal, China has officially blocked the popular online blogging site from its citizens – equating to about 1.8 million blogs, of which 8,692 are self-reported Chinese bloggers. SixApart, the company behind LiveJournal, claims... Read more...

1 in 4 US teenage girls between 15-17 keep their own blogs

Fred Derf — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:12:19 +0000

About a quarter of girls, ages 15 to 17, keep their own blogs, compared with only 15 per cent of boys in that same age group according to a survey conducted by the Pew Internet... Read more...

MSN Blogs Sift Through Popular Culture

Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:48:36 +0000

Microsoft has quietly launched MSN Filter, expanding its presence in the growing sea of blogs that have washed onto the Internet. MSN Filter, which launched last week, features blogs that cover... Read more...

Google Steps Up to Stop Comment Spam on Blogs

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:52:52 +0000

Search engine and web leader Google have announced their efforts to cut down on the amount of spam seen on blog comments. A problem that afflicts and annoys many bloggers, it's also a major issue... Read more...

'Star Wars Kid' Gets Bucks From Blogs

Tom Warren — Wed, 21 May 2003 01:11:18 +0000

A couple of webloggers are raising money for an unfortunate teenager humiliated worldwide after a private video of his energetic lightsaber moves was leaked to the Net. Webloggers Andy Baio and Jish Mukerji... Read more...