This is page 46 of the blogging news archives.

Sploid Gone Forever (August 16, 2006): Gawker Media's Sploid posted a link-filled goodbye post today claiming they are going the way of the dodo.

YouTube Suffers Unplanned Outage (August 15, 2006): Reuters reports that YouTube.

XuQa Adds Games and Peanuts (August 15, 2006): GigaOM reports that the XuQa, a college social network with a party atmosphere, has turned into a giant game or contest with the new XuQa 2.

Google Upgrades Blogger With New Layout and Privacy Tools (August 15, 2006): Google has upgraded its Blogger service. The new features include new layout editing tools and privacy tools.

Blogging The Da Vinci Code Part 2 (August 14, 2006): The Da Vinci Code can still be found in many theatres since opening nearly three months ago.

Netvibes Raises $15 Million (August 14, 2006): Netvibes, which bills itself as a custom made web 2.

Developer Blog Shows Construction of Virtual Hotel (August 14, 2006): Aloft Hotels, a new brand of Starwood Hotels, is launching a preview of its new hotels inside the Second Life game before opening the actual hotels to the public in 2008.

Google Worried About Potential Trademark Issues (August 14, 2006): The Independent Online reports that Google is concerned about google being used as a verb.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Starts a Blog (August 13, 2006): Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has started a blog at www.

Healthcare Blogging Summit This December (August 12, 2006): The Medical Blog Network is debuting the Healthcare Blogging Summit this year.

UGC Sites Among Fastest Growing Web Brands (August 10, 2006): A new Nielsen//Netratings study has found that user-generated content (UGC) sites like ImageShack, Heavy.

Celebrity Blogging Site Has a Blogmobile (August 8, 2006): https://www.

Bloggers Discover Doctored Reuters Photographs (August 7, 2006): Bloggers recently discovered that at least two Reuters photographs were doctored by photographer Adnan Hajj.

State of the Blogosphere 8-7-06 (August 7, 2006): Technorati has posted a new State of the Blogosphere report.

AOL Releases Tons of Personal Search Data (August 7, 2006): What are they thinking at AOL corporate headquarters? Over the weekend AOL placed an enormous amount of private customer search history onto the Internet.

Anti-Gore YouTube Video Tied to ExxonMobil PR Firm (August 6, 2006): A video spoofing Al Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, about the dangers of global warming was recently uploaded to YouTube.

Feedburner Feeds Blocked by China? (August 6, 2006): Steve Rubel is discussing a post by William Long that says Feedburner feeds are being blocked by China.

China Censors Blogs by Tibetan Poet Woeser (August 5, 2006): China has censored two blogs authored by Tibetan poet Woeser. Reporters Without Borders has condemned the disappearance of the blogs.

Study: 22% of College Students Blog (August 5, 2006): iMedia Connection reports that a recent polling of 350 college students by Experience, Inc.

Blog Services Driving Growth in Internet Hostnames (August 3, 2006): TG Daily cites a Netcraft study that found record growth in Internet hostnames during July.