WordPress 2.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch has been released in the iTunes App Store.

While there’s not much difference on the surface, the White House’s content management system has moved to the open source Drupal platform. It may not lower unemployment or strengthen the economy, but it’s still change that geeks can believe in.

Some have called the Internet the new Wild West without law or order. It seems the hot issues that have been cropping up lately revolve around distinguishing the line between free speech and harassment. The Texas police have had enough as they are now planning on arresting those impersonating and insulting them on the Web.

It doesn’t matter whether you’re young or old, rich or poor, nobody wants to pay for online news. With almost three quarters willing to move on to another site, just how many consumers are willing to pay for the news?

Wordpress has enabled real-time updates for the millions of blogs using the service. Now you just need to know how to get news updates as soon they’re posted.

Technorati, the well known blog search engine, has had a bit of an identity crisis over the past few years, and now it seems as though that may go even further as it prepares to start releasing original content.

If you are running your own copy of the mega-popular WordPress blog software, you are in serious danger of your site being hacked this weekend unless you upgrade immediately.

Yahoo’s new microblogging service called Meme is perfect for anyone who’s bored of just updating their Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr pages and wants to branch out even further.

A New York court has ordered Google to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger accused of libeling a former model on his “Skanks of NYC” blog. The ruling sets a significant precedent for the often-blurred line between fact and opinion on blogs.

The Italian government is reportedly planning to bring right-of-reply media laws online, despite serious logistical problems with applying such rules to the Web. It’s the latest in a series of incidents where officials have attempted to restrict online freedoms.

Denizens of a couple of social networks were faced with quitting cold turkey when attacks on an eastern European blogger took down the sites upon which they have come to rely for contact with friends and relatives.

John Quincy Adams has begun posting to his Twitter account. The chronologically challenged posts are among several examples of entertaining or informative accounts supposedly belonging to historical or fictional characters.

AT&T has temporarily blocked its DSL subscribers from accessing the controversial image and message board site 4chan. The fallout could tell us something of the relative powers of corporations and individual users in the online age.

The Associated Press is suggesting technical publishing guidelines for all new stories, asking that descriptive tags be attached to all news stories in order to generate more revenue for large media operations.

When Michael Jackson’s death was broken first by a celebrity gossip blog, I and many others considered this a sign of things to come, with the Internet taking over from traditional media and news organizations. But while speed and timing is one thing, legitimacy and trustworthiness are another. On that score, traditional media still rules.

Perez Hilton is huge, and not just in the belly department. Here’s a man who became a celebrity for mocking the cult of celebrity and the people involved in it. But a couple of rather major events have recently rocked Perez Hilton the man. Could these have an effect on Perez Hilton the site as well?

The Huffington Post is a huge success. As a result, so is Arianna Huffington, its founder and the woman whose name it carries. The site uses content written by unpaid contributors, and Huffington herself is constantly dismissal of bloggers and the idea that they should be paid for their work. Which makes my blood boil.