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Just finished posting on Blogger Buzz about a fairly significant product decision: we’re shutting down FTP publishing at Blogger. For the vast majority of Blogger users (99.5% of them, to be exact), this is a non-issue. But for the .5% who continue to use FTP, this is going to be a non-trivial issue. Once it…

We’ve been hinting at these for a while, and we were this close to getting Pages out before the holidays… but at long last they’re here. To say that most Blogger users wanted stand-alone pages on their blogs would be an understatement. I created a couple pages tonight – in addition to the obvious About Me…

A number of people have asked about my Nexus One – did I like it, should they get one, any tips… figured it was a good time to jot down some thoughts. Big, honkin’ disclosure: I received this phone for free, and I work for Google. Bit of background: as is now well known, Google…

It occurred to me over the winter break that I have cobbled together a rather ridiculous mess. I have a total of 14 devices connected (mostly via ethernet, some via wifi) to our home network, and I’m betting that the use of hand-me-down equipment is creating packet bottlenecks that I could easily eliminate. I just…

I’m long overdue in getting a review of FreedomTM online. Dan sent me a review copy last month, and I read it cover-to-cover. To answer the most critical question: yes, it was worth the wait. If you liked Daemon (and who didn’t?!) then you’ll absolutely enjoy FreedomTM. I’ll spare you the spoilers – there are…

Posted via the Chrome extension Blog This: Google Chrome Extensions: Blog This! (by Google): “Add a BlogThis! button to the browser toolbar, which lets you post to your Blogger blog from any webpage with just one click.” Sweet. Nice job, Jungshik!

If you’ve got 6 minutes, watch this video. NFL films routinely wires up players for audio – typically to include snippets of hits or sideline banter in end-of-season highlight reels. But what happened during the Lions/Browns game two weekends ago was remarkable – and listening to the audio from rookie QB Matt Stafford as he…

Yesterday, CNN.com published an opinion piece I wrote. It’s a topic that’s not new to my readers – I’ve been writing about the striking similarities between pamphlets and social media for years (2003, 2009) and more recently read up on George Orwell’s focus on pamphlets as a necessary component of communication for individuals to have…

Didn’t see this one coming: earlier today, Robby (my 7 year-old son) mentioned in passing: “Ricky [my 9 year-old son] knows the password on the computer upstairs.” I didn’t immediately grasp what he meant – after all, I’d set each boy up with their own account with a password and customized their desktop so they…

Last night, an important new feature launched on Google Scholar: more than 80 years of US federal caselaw (including tax and bankruptcy courts) and over 50 years of state caselaw is now fully searchable online, for free at Google Scholar. This project is the culmination of much work, led by a remarkable engineer at Google…