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Google Acquires Picasa, Improves Blogging Tools
clandestine writes "It appears that our lovable search engine has again expanded its horizons - the internet wasn't enough; now you can search and organize your own pictures. I don't know about you, but I use Google for nearly everything; heck, I found links about their acquisition of Picasa through Google News! Any slashdotters going to benefit from this tech, or already do? And yes, the addition of Picasa to their arsenal is a couple of days old, but they just started linking them on the homepage today."
For the past month or so I haven't been able to access any of the blogs that I usually read, or even access/edit my own blog.
At first I thought it's just a tiny routing problem that would solve itself, but after a few weeks of timeouts I asked my ISP.
They responded saying that the Korean government has actually ordered all the ISPs to block most blogging sites like Blogger. Effectively making inaccessible (for South Korea anyway) tens of thousands of blogs.
The reason is that the Ministry of Information and Communication has found that some blogs hosted (or contained links to) video clips of the Korean guy (Kim Sun-il) being executed in Iraq.
They seem to be doing everything in their power to prevent the video from entering Korea. (but anyone deterimined enough to see it could still quite easily get it by Googling for Free Proxy,, or by tunneling through SSH to a friend outside the country.)
A thread discussing the issue can be found here.
This is seriously annoying to us foreigners living here, since many of us use American blogging sites such a blogger quite frequently.
Regards
RefriedBean