Blogosphere Highlights 9-25-08

• Google's G-1 Phone ignited a tech blogstorm.
• Technorati recently acquired the BlogCritics network. This makes Technorati a search/content/ad-network hybrid sort of like Yahoo has become - but obviously on a smaller scale than Yahoo.
• Study finds more hiring managers are using social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn to evaluate potential hires.
• Twittermoms is a site where Twitter moms can connect with other Twittering moms. (via TechCrunch)
• Bits reports that Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers have started a blog about the iPhone and their $100 million iFund in mobile applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. The blog is at ifundvc.com
• Another Bits post asks how many web services one person can use. A person can update a lot of web services with tools like Ping.fm but they can't really maintain an active presence on too many websites.
• TwitterKeys will let you add some UFT8 icons to your Twitter conversations.
• Editor and Publisher launched two new blogs: Fitz & Jen and The E&P Pub.
• Giga Omni Media acquired The Apple Blog.
• A blogger was arrested for posting 9 unrelease Guns N' Roses songs.
• Boing Boing and Kevin Kelly discuss the idea of the Whole Earth Catalog as a blog from the 1970s.
• Valleywag says that 2/3 of Heavy.com's salesforce has left.
• Gwyneth Paltrow is launch a lifestyle site called Goop. Some details here.
• A blog with a long name thingswithapproximatelyasmanypeopleaswasilla.com attempts to point out that lots of places and things have as many people as Sarah Palin's hometown where she was mayor.
• Boing Boing Gadgets was not impressed with Esquire's E-Ink cover.
• 1.1 million people read the Wikipedia entry for Sarah Palin in the 36 hours following her introduction. Slate says a college sophmore gets credit for pushing Palin as the vp choice.