Ok, I’m probably late to notice this, but I just did a Google search for daylight savings time and noticed that over on the right hand side of the search results page, where AdWords ads normally appear, there were search results labelled “Blog Results »»” (click the thumbnail below for a full sized view of the page).

Yes, I know that blog posts show up in Google’s regular search results, but I’ve never seen them clearly labelled like this before. Has anyone else noticed this?

For me, as a long time blogger and somewhat of a blogging evangelist, when a search engine the size of google goes out of it’s way to let searchers know that “These results are from blogs” and also places a link above the results the searcher can use for further blog searches (even though that link leads to results on their own blog search service), it’s a massive hat-tip to blogs, bloggers and blogging as a whole. It helps legitimize blogging to a higher degree.

Good onya Google. Bravo, and thanks, sincerely.

Update: I just tried to replicate the same results so that I could add a link to my post above and the blog search results did not show up this time. Which leads me to believe that they are testing this feature in a limited way.

So Google, when will we see this go mainstream? Matt? Anyone?

Poke sticks in people’s eyes until they blink, then trounce them for blinking. See here and here for perfect examples.

Don’t people have anything better to do?

Last week’s plea post looking for a new managing editor for Gawker.com, Gawker media’s flagship site says:

“The right candidate will oversee Gawker’s evolution.

A feel for the tone of the internet, and the particular obsessions of the internet audience, is necessary.”

And the New York Times reports yesterday that Gawker founder, Nick Denton himself will be taking over.

I’ve always liked Nick’s writing style and have been reading his material online since late 2003, wherever he happens to be writing, so I’ll be gawking Gawker.com more closely from now on.

Twitter is back online after a brief scheduled overnight outage. If you were jonesing cuz you wanted to add me as a friend over there, you’re wait is over. Click here to follow me on Twitter and if you’re legit, I’ll follow you.

In the first week of 2008, I’ll be blogging with a fervor and passion never before seen on this site. So, like, I’ll try to squeeze in about 2 posts a day *sheepish grin*.

In all seriousness though, I’ve been off the blogging and tech radar for far too long now. All this wasted time could have been used to build a brand, but instead, I’ve been pissin it all away.

That’s changing over the next couple weeks.

I just finished installing the WP-OpenID plugin here on the blog so now, if you have an OpenID account anywhere, you can use that same ID here when you make a comment.

The plugin was painless to install, but you’ll need php5 on your hosting account in order for the plugin to work on your blog.