Verisign buys Weblogs.com for $2 million Another sale, another few millions, another big name forays into the weblog market in a big way.

Network feud leads to Net blackout I have seen slow connections all morning and have been aware of this BGP feud for some time. The Cogent peers seem to be affected the worst.

Weblogs Inc. bought by AOL for (I believe) $20 Million Wow. Lots of buzz in the blog news arena about this. Congrats to Jason.

Macworld: The best blogging tools for the MacRight now, the blogging tools most popular with Mac users are TypePad and Movable Type, both from Six Apart; Blogspot and Blogger, from Blogger (now part of Google); and WordPress, an open-source tool. These five tools range in power and complexity from simple-but-limited (TypePad, Blogger, and Blogspot) to do-pretty-much-anything-but-may-require-coding (WordPress). Movable Type is somewhere between these two extremes. Thanks Google Alerts

Net, Thou Art Dust … RSS is the death of the Internet. You decide. How and why is this new to people in this business? Thanks Simon

Is webstats4u (formerly Nedstat) hurting your site? All traces of Nedstat and/or webstats4u have been removed from all of my sites. There are many reasons for this removal. The popups were just pure annoying The popups might be violating AdSense (and other ad package) policies in spite of the fact that the popups were not contextual. Though there is no empirical data to prove it, I have read in the past that popups might reduce Google traffic Though there is no empirical data to prove it, I know for a fact that a large percentage of web visitors hate popups 😉 I refuse to allow the kind of tactics that webstats4u has decided to employ There are way too many good online statistics packages (free ones) for anyone to continue using webstats4u In addition to the above, I would like to clear IceRocket of any wrongdoing. The popups were a […]

MT-Blacklist and Comment Spam Clearinghouse Closed Jay chooses to close down the clearinghouse to protest ubiquitous and unscrupulous programmers hitting the blacklist more than they should have. My personal view on blacklists aside, thanks for all your work Jay. Thanks to Threadwatch for the news.

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