The first rant in Gee's Jive is online now

Bloglines, the venerable RSS reader, will cease to exist in a few weeks, according to its owner, Ask.com.

The open-source content management system WordPress turned seven years old last month. In its lifetime, it has attracted a devout following: More than 28,000 people download WordPress every day, with over 11.4 million active installations, including news outlets and corporate sites.

A new version of the popular open-source blogging software WordPress has been posted, the cadre of volunteers behind the software announced on Thursday.

Google will begin on Thursday a public test of a Blogger layout customization tool that the company says significantly broadens publishers' ability to modify the look of their blogs.

Webmasters who find an annoying error message on their sites may have caught a big break, thanks to a slip-up by the authors of the Gumblar botnet.

Some bloggers may soon have some fessing up to do.

NewsGator's Social Sites, an enterprise social-networking complement to Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007, now features Twitter-like microblogging capabilities tailored for workplace communications.