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Google Blogoscoped covers Google and the tech world, more or less daily since 2003. To help out post your news tips in the forum or email them to me, Philipp Lenssen, info@blogoscoped.com (or info2@blogoscoped.com if you don't want to send through to Gmail); you can also contact me to discuss how you can get involved with writing articles. Google Blogoscoped has become a true community effort over time through the participation of many, many people, including Tony Ruscoe (co-editor), Ionut Alex. Chitu, Colin Colehour, /pd, Mambo, Orli Yakuel, Manoj Nahar, Sohil, David Hetfield...

The blog and the forum cover new Google product releases, contain tutorials and tips, information on Google censorship methods, and 20% random weirdness (the blog also spawned a book). Google is the focus here because the company and its tools have a growing impact on people's life – for better or worse. The Google search engine serves as a pair of eyes in a virtual world, and I think we'd all like a clear view.

Philipp Lenssen, Tony Ruscoe...

This blog is featured in the Technorati 100 and the current Techmeme all time top 100, and is a Google News source. Mark Draughn of Windypundit.com once called it "One of the most interesting technical sites on the web," and Vittorio Del Percio from Lugano, Switzerland, said it's "... the first source of info I check daily in the morning when I arrive at my desk in the office."

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About me: I'm from Germany and I'm doing this blog and my other sites & related projects full-time (before that, I worked as web developer for several years). I like to do a bit of everything, from drawing to programming, writing to trying to play around with music, and I'm always interested in the intersections among those areas. Some sites I started:

• Games for the Brain: Dozens of easy to understand but challenging games.
• Sketch Swap: You draw an image to get another random image back (co-created with Dominik Schmid).
• Cover Browser: Explore 10,000s of comic book covers.
• Watch to Learn Chinese: free Mandarin learning videos, with the help of the YouTube API.
• Bomomo: ... give it a try.
• Google Blogoscoped Shop: Shirts, mugs, posters and more.
• Gaxed: Put your message on (almost) anything.
• QML: The Quest Markup Language comes with a free editor to create choose-your-own-adventure games.

... and you can find more sites as well as games, design & game music samples on my homepage. Thanks go out to Arne Trautman for his legal advice for many of my sites!

About Tony: Tony Ruscoe is a developer currently living in Sheffield, UK, where he works for a translation company. When he's not blogging for Google Blogoscoped or helping to maintain the forum, he can be found at Ruscoe.net. With his curious research style, he's managed to dig up quite a few interesting bits of Google related news. Tony's also interested in playing the guitar and genealogy – his ultimate goal being "to gather as much information as possible on every single Ruscoe ever known to existed."

Responsible for this site is Philipp Lenssen, Stuttgart, Germany.

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