Weekly Blogistan Round-Up no. 50/2008
This week the new WordPress version 2.7 made a lot of bloggers happy – while some keep complaining about the new looks. Overall, it's a quantum leap for the most popular blogging software ever.
I started online publishing about 10 years ago, for the last four years I've been blogging - I'm passionate about social media and current web 2.0 trends. I teach at the University of Vienna and I work as a social media consultant. And I just luv blogging!
This week the new WordPress version 2.7 made a lot of bloggers happy – while some keep complaining about the new looks. Overall, it's a quantum leap for the most popular blogging software ever.
I said “Leon, take that break at two” and gave a crazy look to the camera.
Everybody is going social these days – Google and Facebook launch new services which make a success of OpenID even more unlikely.
There is no right life in the wrong one, even Adorno knew that – and Kiki does as well, but that doesn't keep him from craving some Christmas carols.
Pownce recently announced that the microblogging service will shut its virtual doors on December 15th. Twitter has one another duel – the whole Pownce team will be working for French-US blogging company Six Apart.
There's a new WordPress version, Mr. Icahn has increased his Yahoo shares and a young filmmaker animates the free flow of sub-conscious thoughts. In other words: just an ordinary week in the Blogistan.
Monty Python launches their own Youtube channel, Facebook is trying to bring some customers to its marketplace and Seth is reminding bloggers of the fact that trust is vital to any sustainable relationship.
There's lighthouses… and then again, there's haunted lighthouses. And this delicious candy for ongoing porn stars.
Obama has won, the economy hasn't. But while the worst part is yet to come, many online marketing experts are looking forward to a new gold-digging age.
Have you thrown your daily pig already? Is there any significance to using superpoke? Doctor Kim de Vries investigates the mysteries of symbolic communcation in her latest paper.
Facebook profile URLs are hard to remember. So if you got your own URL at hands, why not use a dedicated subdomain and a little redirect magic?
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