Google has bought the company which helped make weblogs a worldwide phenomenon. Does this mean blogs will now really hit the big time - or could going mainstream destroy their cult appeal? When a ...

(Editor’s note: This is the second in a periodic series on digital storytelling techniques. Part 1 covered immersive content.) NOTE: Poynter’s Steve Outing also is a columnist for Editor & Publisher ...

Neil McIntosh and Jane Perrone explain all the terms you'll need to become au fait with the world of weblogs · We will be regularly adding to this glossary. If there are any weblogging terms that you ...

America Online plans to acquire blog publisher Weblogs Inc. in an effort to bolster its presence in the ever-growing blogging community. Weblogs, a privately held Santa Monica, Calif.-based company, ...

Commentator David Weinberger says the phenomenon of "Weblogs" — a sort of daily journal that hundreds of thousands of people now keep on the Internet — is one example of how the Web may transform ...

Verisign has confirmed their acquisition of the Weblogs.com ping server network and related assets. See the Verisign blog post here as well. We aren’t going to write a lot about it here on TechCrunch ...

VeriSign has agreed to purchase Dave Winer's Weblogs.com ping service for $2.3 million, the company said Friday. The ping service automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a Web ...

"If you want to be in Google," wrote Dave Winer, the doyen of the weblogging classes, on Saturday, "you gotta be on the web. It's pretty simple". Those of you who have followed Online's coverage of ...

Weblogs, Inc. co-founder and CTO Brian Alvey is preparing to launch his new startup – a content management and hosting system called Crowd Fusion. From what we hear (I haven’t been able to speak to ...

AOL is buying Weblogs Inc, the blog media network behind such sites as Engadget, AutoBlog and Luxist. PaidContent.org broke the news story last night as it learned that Weblogs Inc, which reportedly ...