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WordPress Review

Thu, 09 Sep 2004 17:27:05 +0000

A WordPress Blog Publishing Platform Review.

Blogging and Business Moving Mainstream

Sun, 01 Aug 2004 19:09:09 +0000

Yahoo! News – Blogging and Business Moving Mainstream

Blogs, journalism: Different factions of the write wing

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:55:36 +0000

USATODAY.com – Blogs, journalism: Different factions of the write wing.

Bloggers Versus Journalists

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:54:09 +0000

Bloggers versus journalists.

The Ultimate Blog Directory

Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:51:47 +0000

The latest blog directory listing Blogs from all around the World.

Bloggers Suffer Burnout

Wed, 14 Jul 2004 04:26:02 +0000

Wired News: Bloggers Suffer Burnout

Into the Blogosphere

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:40:32 +0000

A whole slew of articles about weblogs and blogging. “This online, edited collection explores discursive, visual, social, and other communicative features of weblogs.”

Merge RSS and Atom?

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:35:03 +0000

A proposal from Dave Winer, would it be reasonable to merge Atom and RSS, much the way we merged scriptingNews format with RSS between 0.90 and 0.91?

News on Demand

Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:31:42 +0000

PCWorld.com reviews RSS readers.

WordPress QuickTags

Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:41:05 +0000

Here’s a list of WP QuickTags and an explanation of what they do.

Movable Type Answers Critics with Pricing Remodel

Fri, 18 Jun 2004 15:53:35 +0000

Six Apart unveiled licensing changes to its popular Weblogging software, Movable Type this week.

TIME.com: Meet Joe Blog

Mon, 14 Jun 2004 02:17:37 +0000

Time Magazine article on weblogging.

International Symposium on Online Journalism

Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:03:25 +0000

I found a list of Symposium Research Papers on blogging from the University of Texas. Some interesting titles are Blog, Blog, Blog: Experiences with web logs in journalism classes, When the Audience is the Producer: The Art of the Collaborative Weblog, and Wikipedia as Participatory Journalism: Reliable Sources? Metrics for evaluating collaborative media as a news resource.

WordPress Bug Tracking

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 03:48:47 +0000

WordPress has a new bug tracking system.

Ping-O-Matic – Over 1 Million Served!

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 03:02:32 +0000

Ping-O-Matic has sent between 1.25 and 1.5 Million pings since they launched 7 weeks ago. Nice job Matt Mullenweg and company.

Comprehensive Review Of RSS Feed Readers

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:24:16 +0000

There’s a comprehensive article in PCWorld.com on RSS readers.

New UI For The WP Admin Area

Tue, 08 Jun 2004 16:08:28 +0000

If you would like to experiment with a new admin UI for WP and are adventurous follow along with Chris J. Davis as he goes on a quest to reinvent the admin area.

Tantalizing Banter Is Weblog’s Hook

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 17:37:30 +0000

It’s nice to see positive articles in the press about blogging. “I see Weblogs as one of the most exciting developments in the online world — a relatively new, still-evolving form of expression, full of passion and possibility.”

Pingback vs Trackback

Thu, 03 Jun 2004 13:13:30 +0000

This technical article is a few years old but it gives an in-depth analysis of the difference between Pingback and Trackback. The non-technical difference as I understand it is pingback automatically finds URI’s in the post and pings them while a trackback needs to have a URI entered manually.

Tutorial: Using WordPress to Power Your Website

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:49:13 +0000

Need a website up and running quickly? Aaron Ogle posted this turotial on how to run WordPress 1.2 as a non-blog website. Here is his personal website that is powered by WP 1.2. It’s great to see people get outside the box and use current technology to work for them.

WordPress Patch: Spam Words Bug

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:23:01 +0000

Kitten points out a bug in WordPress 1.2 that will give you unexpected results if you leave a line space at the bottom of the Spam Words list under Options — Discussion — Comment Moderation. Be sure to either implement this hack, download the latest copy of WordPress from the nightly builds or be sure there are no line spaces after the last word in your list.

New Weblog About RSS

Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:01:08 +0000

Everything a non-tech user needs to know about RSS 2.0. “A place for developers of publishing and aggregation tools to communicate with users about their offerings.”

Simpletracks

Mon, 31 May 2004 22:01:56 +0000

If your blogging software doesn’t support Trackbacks, no need to worry. Simpletracks will send Trackback pings for you. Just enter the Trackback URI, your blog name, entry title, entry URI, and an excerpt of your entry. Click ‘Send Ping’. Your done.

Combining Traditional News With Commentary

Mon, 31 May 2004 07:24:58 +0000

Memeorandum combines a synopsis of the latest headline news and combines it with relevant blog entries, combining weblog commentary with traditional news reports. It’s a pretty unique idea. How does Memeorandum decide which weblog entries to include in its news reports? First by relevancy, then by timeliness. The only thing I couldn’t find was how they locate relevant weblog commentary?

Tips for New Bloggers

Mon, 31 May 2004 01:51:12 +0000

Alex King has 10 suggestions for new bloggers.