What was decried as the death of a blog universe when Dave Winer shut down free blog host Weblogs.com turned out to be little more than a four-day server outage surrounded by a heck of a flame war.

America Online Inc. will inherit Engadget, Autoblog and other popular Web journals as part of a $25 million deal announced Thursday that expands AOL’s presence in the blogging community and the ...

Google has bought the company which helped make weblogs a worldwide phenomenon. Does this mean blogs will now really hit the big time - or could going mainstream destroy their cult appeal? When a ...

America Online plans to acquire blog publisher Weblogs Inc. in an effort to bolster its presence in the ever-growing blogging community. Weblogs, a privately held Santa Monica, Calif.-based company, ...

(Editor’s note: This is the second in a periodic series on digital storytelling techniques. Part 1 covered immersive content.) NOTE: Poynter’s Steve Outing also is a columnist for Editor & Publisher ...

There are reports that AOL has acquired Weblogs, Inc. and will officially announce it later this week. The acquisition price, including earnouts, is reported to be $20-35 million. Weblogs, Inc., ...

Increasingly, private life is a public matter. That seems especially true in the phenomenon known as blogging. Weblogs, or blogs, are used by scores of online memoirists, editorialists, exhibitionists ...

VeriSign has agreed to purchase Dave Winer's Weblogs.com ping service for $2.3 million, the company said Friday. The ping service automatically notifies subscribers when new content is posted to a Web ...

Weblogs, Inc. co-founder and CTO Brian Alvey is preparing to launch his new startup – a content management and hosting system called Crowd Fusion. From what we hear (I haven’t been able to speak to ...

Weblogs Inc., home to such notable blogs as Autoblog, Engadget, and The Unofficial Apple Blog (TUAW) has been purchased by AOL for an undisclosed sum. Someone close to the transaction told the Wall ...