Facebook announced a host of changes to its Notes feature Last weekend. Notes originally appeared on the site as a means for users to write extended entries though it never really caught on with the user base.

However, the recent update transforms Notes into a tiny CMS within the Facebook ecosystem. Changes include the ability to add cover art, caption images, resize inline photos and format text.

You can see the difference between the two iterations in the image above. Instead of the standard wall of plaintext that longform Facebook posts have traditionally eschewed, the additional formatting makes the entries much easier to read and digest. And though the editing feature is exclusively web-based, the new Notes do appear on mobile as well.

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Nigerian Popular blogger, Linda Ikeji's BLOG has been repealed by GOOGLE  over Copyright Infringements. Linda Ikeji was having a running battle with some aggrieved parties who insisted that she steals their work and makes no reference or credits to them. Presently Linda Ikeji Blog is OFFLINE as can be seen from the screenshot of the page at 07:00pm(Cyprus time). Check status http://lindaikeji.blogspot.com

According to Africa Music Law website, managed by Uduak Oduok :

When we began this year, 2014, I asked if this was the year that Linda Ikeji would get sued. I said from tort claims to intellectual property issues, Linda Ikeji has helped create such awareness about the law, at least from the stand point of what I do here on www.africamusiclaw.com. If someone is not accusing her of defamation, someone else is claiming she infringed on their intellectual property. I also said she should consider having  a lawyer who can advise her as well as fight those who will inevitably come after her, given she now has deep pockets i.e. makes a lot of money. Welcome to B.I.G’s throwback hit single ‘The Mo’ Money, the Mo’ Problems,’ featuring “Puff” Daddy and Mase.

According to Google's terms and conditions for using their free hosted blogger platform, Linda Ikeji can appeal the decision to take her blog offline and hopefully get the decision revoked.

 *This is a Breaking News story, more updates coming!

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 **UPDATE1:

 Linda Ikeji tweeted to say she is working to get the blog back online. See screenshots of her tweet below:

 **UPDATE2: Blog is back online. It has been going off and on for the past hour. Hopefully she managed to revoke the decision by Google to shut her down. Kudos!!

 **UPDATE3:
 Blog is OFFLINE again, WOW!

 
 **Update4:

  Punch contacted Google’s Manager for Communications and Public Affairs, Anglo-Phone West Africa, Taiwo Kolade-Ogunlade, and he gave reasons why the blog was shut down:

Excerpts:

“Google as an organisation takes issues of copyright seriously and belongs to a group of digital companies that respect copyrights.

“Copyright is a big deal and this is why you can’t just go and pick up another person’s intellectual property or content and lay claim to its ownership.

“That is why we have copyright guidance. I don’t know if Linda picked up any content and I don’t know what content is the bone of contention-neither have I looked into the complaints personally.

“But it is not a case of witch-hunting and has nothing to do with Linda Ikeji’s personality or anyone else because there is a process, and irrespective of who you are in the world, that process would apply to you,” Kolade-Ogunlade explained.

“Let’s respect other people’s rights and intellectual property. Making money off other people’s content without permission is wrong. Although the Internet is inanimate, it is the content on it that gives it life. These are the issues.

“Whenever owners of online contents come after you accusing you of using their content, it is because they have families to feed and businesses to sustain.

“People should also understand that copyrights does not only apply to text, but also extends to literary works, images and photographs, music files and MP3s, movies, movie trailers and videos as well as software,”

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