Archive for the “Blogosphere News” category
Finding New Content – 20 Sites for Inspiration
by Kevin on October 4, 2009
Tracking what others are searching for on the web can be difficult at times, as there is simply too much content. Think about YouTube’s statistics for a minute – more than twenty hours of video is uploaded every single minute (…)
The Market for “Premium” Plugins
by Kevin on June 20, 2009
In the past year, and especially recently, a market has begun to develop for what you might coin as “premium” or “paid” plugins. Much like the market that exists for premium themes, there will be disputes from various community members, (…)
WordPress and WP MU to Merge
by Kevin on May 30, 2009
In an announcement at WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, he announced that the WordPress version that most people use and the version that many professional companies and larger sites use (MU, Multiple-User) will be merging. Apart (…)
Why Blogging Can’t Be in Micro-Blog Format
by Kevin on February 8, 2009
In trends this year (and for a majority of last year), micro-blogs and the act of micro-blogging became more important to how we communicate online. For one, Twitter and similar tools began allowing us to communicate much more rapidly, while (…)
Pownce Closes Its Doors; Moves to Movable Type
by Kevin on December 2, 2008
The not-so-popular microblogging service Pownce will be shutting its doors on December 15th (roughly two weeks from now) and will have a bittersweet farewell by its members and founders. In just one short year (the service officially opened to the (…)