I have always wondered if Gravatar was going to take off, and with its updated release a few months back, it seemed like while it gained some great new features, its paid options took away from the original open feeling of Gravatar.
Out comes news that Automattic, the people behind WordPress, have purchased Gravatar, and they [...]

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North x East has released a beautiful looking list of the 50 most influential bloggers and while there are many great names in blogging on the list, sadly I wasn’t listed. (I probably ranked 51st or something…)

There are literally millions of bloggers out there, each of them with their own voice and style, and yet [...]

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The mystery is over, and so many people are annoyed. It is like finding out how a magic trick is performed: it loses its magic. Fake Steve Jobs is Daniel Lyons of Forbes.
He writes a post giving congrats to Brad Stone from the New York Times as he was the one who figured it out.

Well [...]

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A big hubbub is being made recently about sponsored themes not being listed on WLTC any more. Does this personally bother me? Not at all. It’s his site - he can do whatever he wants. Just like they have every right to take sponsored themes off themes.wordpress.net.
But when posts are titled “WLTC High Ground” [...]

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I have a little bone to pick with a variety of people. It seems their blogs have been converted into nothing more than a rolling list of their daily “twitters” from Twitter.com.
Some of the bloggers might not have written articles every day, but when they did write on their blog, they were some great [...]

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Blogging Pro is looking to talk to those out there that are amazing bloggers. We want to interview people that work really hard at blogging, and don’t feel like they get the attention they deserve.
I sometimes feel like even with all the work that I have done, that I don’t get the exposure or [...]

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We love to watch properties that Bloggy Network used to own. We keep an eye on theme, and enjoy seeing them doing well.
Splashpress Media bought EatonWeb, a great web directory, and has recently relaunched it.
Here are some details from their post on the Performancing:
In our view, a blog’s strength is [...]

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One of the hardest things for some bloggers, living at home, by themselves is to force themselves to be social. Others are lucky, and they crave the social connections that going to conferences require. I am not one of them. I have to force myself to approach people I have never met and create a [...]

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Mark Jaquith is a well known WordPress expert. He always has something to add to the community, and I mistakingly thought he was an Automattic employee once or twice, but now news has come out that the man who devotes his free time to WordPress, has finally got a paid position in b5media.
Here is [...]

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Autoblog is one of my favorite vehicle news blogs, and I had to admit, that because I only read it via my feed reader, I didn’t really notice its new design, and quickly skipped over the post about it, but when Matt (thanks Matt) wrote me to let me know that not only had they [...]

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Jonathan Snook, a web developer and speaker I respect a lot, has posted some details on how people with things to say can get into having speaking engagements.
He lists tips like just asking, as conference makers are always looking for new blood, and having an idea, as that will entice them to use you and [...]

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iBegin has released a weather service, called iBegin Weather. Living in Canada, nice looking weather interfaces are few and far between. iBegin has done a great job in created a fast-loading, easy to use, and easy on the eyes (I like their weather icons) service that is also free.
But how it pertains to blogges is [...]

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Lorelle give a great image saving tip today for people looking to do any type of graphic design, including themes for WordPress. Use revisions in your file names, so you never save over your previous work, and it allows you to go back if you hit a dead end.
For example, while working on the Lorelle [...]

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Over on Pearsonified you will find a great little guide to making your blog coded better. He goes over the title tag and how headers should be used.
You’d think that as a result of open-source development practices, blog architectures would be pretty close to perfection in areas like Web standards and maximum SEO impact.
You’d be [...]

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As a blogger, and technology geek, I find myself having a hard time keeping up with everything going on in the blogging and technology world, and even more so thanks to the great distribution models like RSS.
In Bloglines, I have thousands of feeds I read daily, and hundreds more that I skip over. In Democracy [...]

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I just took a look at the online edition of the Blogger & Podcaster magazine, and other than the audio and video advertising within its pages, I was really impressed. People like Leo Laporte and Scoble were interviewed for the premier edition, and overall it looks very professional, something the industry needs to see more [...]

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I just took a look at the online edition of the Blogger & Podcaster magazine, and other than the audio and video advertising within its pages, I was really impressed. People like Leo Laporte and Scoble were interviewed for the premier edition, and overall it looks very professional, something the industry needs to see more [...]

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A long time ago, Google could do no wrong, and everyone on the web was pretty happy. Now, my colleague, Ahmed, has posted his thoughts on the current version of Google, which is much more pervasive than ever before, but is it also more controlling?
Over the years, I’ve been a ‘fan’ of Google. I say [...]

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It seems that David Krug has sold his latest media venture, 901am, to Splashpress Media. There was a short post on the newly acquired site with closed comments, but they have since been opened. J. Angelo Racoma posted on the Blog Herald, about the sale, and also letting everyone know that David Krug has been [...]

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Darren Rowse has recently posted about some of his social networking accounts, including his Facebook account. He has also created a Problogger group in the site for all of us to network on.
You can network with Darren as well as myself on Facebook.
If you are interested in blogging or WordPress, get on Facebook, [...]

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