Google faces defamation lawsuit in India

Bloggers who were being detained for their criticism to some individuals in the establishment in undemocratic countries such as in China and Egypt are common phenomena. But it’s really a big news when a blogger posting makes someone angry in a democratic country. We in Indonesia used to face such experience when an Indonesian blogger investigated by police for allegedly “insulting” President Yudhoyono. Similar case seems happening now in India, the largest democratic country in the world, in which Google who owns Blogger.com are forced to disclose the identity of a particular blogger and take down his blog.
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Free New Blogger Templates

Wordpress blogging platform is arguably the most widely used free blog software right now for self-hosted blog. Its openness to outside plugins makes it getting popularity among the coders as well. Wordpress.com, the free blog provider owned by Wordpress founder, Matt Mullenweg, gains popularity in a very azaming speed. That’s said, blogger.com / blogspot is still the darling to some bloggers especially for its javascript-enable policy. Making it a chance for blogger to monetize it.

For those stylish blogger, however, the problem lies on its limited and archaic by-default templates. And that has, fortunately, motivated some templates designers to create various new blogger / blogspot template to use for free. Here’s the links of free blogger templates for you to download. If you know some other interesting blogger template design, please tell us the URI address in the comment box below.