The News Review:
- Movable Type 4.0 Beta
- Fiji rugby blog gains momentum
- Business News for IT Managers
Movable Type 4.0 Beta
Washington Post – Jul 20, 2007
Getting your blog up and running is simple. As with Wordpress the software’s client and server components take only minutes to install. If you don’t host your own blog you upload the server portion of the software to your host’s server. To set up the blogging portion of your site surf to a specified page on your site and let the platform do the rest. The clearest improvement to Movable Type is the ability to customize how your site looks. In the new beta editing themes is as simple as modifying HTML… In the new beta editing themes is as simple as modifying HTML. At least at first however only a few themes will be available; in contrast thousands of themes are available for Wordpress. The interface in Movable Type is more awkward than the ones in Wordpress and Blogger. For example when you’re editing your blog’s design in Movable Type you have no simple way of switching back and forth between template sections such as the header and the footer. Also changing the look of these sections can take time if you don’t know your way around the template editor. Movable Type’s page design is cleaner and more elegant-looking than the alternatives however. ne feature that eclipses any other platform’s comparable offering is the graphical statistics display on the dashboard which lets you see which of your posts are most popular.
Fiji rugby blog gains momentum
Fiji Times – Jul 20, 2007
Games continue today. THE World’s largest blogging service WordPress has recognised the local visionary efforts Fiji Rugby Blog with the number 35 position on its fastest growing category. This is a remarkable achievement spurred by the creative juices of local sports writer Rusiate Mataika and internationally renowned but locally based web design firm Webmedia Fiji. The blog has shot like a rocket out of the gates and in its first month garnered over 5000 visits and things just seem to keep on getting bigger and better. “WordPress has hundreds of thousands of blogs and to rank this highly it’s an amazing vindication for those who do not feel that Fiji Rugby has a position in the international arena” Mataika said. The blog has thus far received a tremendous response from sponsors open support from the Fiji Rugby Union and is deep in the process of establishing an entire new type of IT marriage with the Suva Rugby Union and Webmedia… This is a remarkable achievement spurred by the creative juices of local sports writer Rusiate Mataika and internationally renowned but locally based web design firm Webmedia Fiji. The blog has shot like a rocket out of the gates and in its first month garnered over 5000 visits and things just seem to keep on getting bigger and better. “WordPress has hundreds of thousands of blogs and to rank this highly it’s an amazing vindication for those who do not feel that Fiji Rugby has a position in the international arena” Mataika said. The blog has thus far received a tremendous response from sponsors open support from the Fiji Rugby Union and is deep in the process of establishing an entire new type of IT marriage with the Suva Rugby Union and Webmedia. “Webmedia sure knows rugby and they are working hard with Suva rugby on establishing so many innovative programs” he said.
Business News for IT Managers
InternetNews.com – InternetNews.com – Jul 20, 2007
It eliminates the cost of content creation keeping margins tight and turning any revenues into profits for venture capital. And besides the cash benefits for venture capital such a model has like a treasure chest given the world more than just YouTube. Let’s not forget the numerous blog networks (WordPress Blogger Typepad etc. ) Flickr Digg Facebook MySpace and Photobucket. According to a loose tabulation of comScore numbers there’s about a billion or so Internet users happy about all that. To Viacom and more than a few content owners however that treasure chest is a Pandora’s Box. They are essentially concerned that this Web 2.