I know what you're thinking. Here you thought it was Saturday, and yet there's a new post on Copyblogger. So either you're drunk, or it's actually a weekday and you stayed home by mistake and now you're going to get fired and lose the family farm. Or maybe this is a new feature. Maybe each Saturday, I'm going to run down the week's posts for you in my own inimitable style so you can see what you may have missed in concise little blurbs.

Cyber Girl by WebWizzard Welcome back to the weekly Twitter column. Today's topic: The vanishing value of retweets due to the attack of the Twitter bots. The sheer number of retweets has become more and more pointless recently. That's a sad realization but it's true. You can get dozens of retweets just by more or less automated Twitter accounts. That's of course just half of the problem. Not only the metric "number of retweets" is worthless by now.

Yesterday was the deadline for states, counties and cities across America to make their pitch to be part of the Google Fiber network, which is capable of downloading Internet data at one billion bits per second. More than 190,000 individuals and 600 communities submitted applications. Click to read the rest of this post.

Google has launched a YouTube channel for its recently released Google Apps Marketplace. The Apps marketplace is a place where developers can create apps that integrate with Google Apps and sell them to users. According to Google, they can reach over 2 million businesses and 25 million users. The YouTube channel should be a good place to checkout some of the apps that are available in the marketplace, and see what they can do.

If you are maintaining a Facebook page, you might have received an email from Facebook containing a summary of the activities that happened in the past on your Facebook pages. This started last week, and a couple of hours ago I received another email again.  While the page analytics contain just some basic data about your page's activities, its interesting to know that Facebook actually compiles all these activities.

With the deadline for Google's call for request for information on various communities to host their fiber network project already closed, Google has reportedly receive 194,000 individual responses and around 1, 100 community responses.  That only goes to show that people want Google to build its fiber network project no matter what the stakes will be for their communities.

Jens Berger posted a fictional account of Google stopping its censoring in Germany (despite this fiction, Google Germany's censoring is real, though). The following is an auto-translation which I fixed in parts: This morning, the internet search service Google has discontinued its service in Germany and forwards queries on the German Google address into neighboring Holland.

by Mike Krumboltz Ever said something and then wish you hadn't? Politicians on both sides of the aisle can relate. This past week, Vice President Joe Biden dropped the mother of all swearwords during the health care ceremony. Elsewhere, Randy Neugebauer, a Republican congressman from Texas, found himself in a firestorm when he allegedly yelled out "baby killer" during the health care debate on Capitol Hill. You want passion? We got it.