Blogosphere News Roundup

I must apologize for my lack of blogginess thus far this week. It seems that I’ve been afflicted with whatever plague is currently going around and have been out sick. For your reading pleasure, I’ve decided to do a roundup of all the infinitely interesting news the blogosphere has offered in the last few days.

• Does Google favor the left wing? The American Thinker a conservative blog, raised questions about Google’s political leanings this week. Google had removed several conservative sites from its news listings after the sites ran articles about radical Islam that Google deemed hate speech. Whether the articles are hate speech or not is certainly not fur us to say. Perhaps our readers will give us their opinions on whether the left-leaning claims are founded or not.
• Earthlink blogging…sort of. Diva Marketing reports that Earthlink’s VP of Corporate Communications, Dan Greenfield has started his own blog to, “muse on my profession but (not) my job at Earthlink.”
• Microsoft listens to criticism from within. Robert Scoble wrote today about some of the new personnel decisions being made over at Microsoft. He credits Mini-Microsoft, an anonymous employee with many critical things to say about the company, with many of the changes.
• Problems with Wordpress comment spam blocker? Chris Pirillo reports that he’s been having problems with Wordpress’ Akisment service. Apparently, it’s been blocking perfectly good comments without notifying him. Our resident Wordpress guru Jason Preston (whose newest blogging venture is Flicker Gaming) says that he’s never had this kind of problem with Akisment before. His only complaint about the software is he thinks it “makes up spam” telling him he’s been hit with thousands of spam comments - even though he didn’t have a serious spam problem before turning on the service.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my little roundup. Hopefully I’ll be back to normal tomorrow so I can offer more sharp analysis of the blogosphere :-).