The News Review:
- Wordpress vs. Expression Engine vs. Django
- WordPress creator Mullenweg is many bloggers’ best friend
- Akismet Competition Gets Heavy Backing
- Author of ‘Stuff White People Like’ visits Penn
- George Donnelly seeks to turn over Transparency Caucus other …
- What is Twitter? Tweet? Impact on Domaining?
- How We Moved Thomas Hawk to WordPress
Wordpress vs. Expression Engine vs. Django
Culture11 VA
The blog will be pretty full featured with a lot of posts per day. His question: will he be better off using Wordpress + plugins buying Expression Engine or rolling his own in Django using some of the stub apps out there?.
WordPress creator Mullenweg is many bloggers’ best friend
USA Today
Less than six years later Mullenweg’s WordPress has become the No. 2 blogging platform behind Google’s Blogger signing up.
Akismet Competition Gets Heavy Backing
Windows & Net Magazine H
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Both anti-spam systems allow free non-commercial and varying prices for commercial users. Akismet has long enjoyed the advantage of being part of the Wordpress distribution package which is now used by millions of sites. The latest version of Wordpress 2. 7 released in December 2008 has already been downloaded well over 1520000 times as of January 2009 – all of which makes for a readily available user base.
Author of ‘Stuff White People Like’ visits Penn
Daily Pennsylvanian PA
After just one week however Lander described how the blog accrued 1000 hits in one day. Lander’s excitement over his blog’s sudden apparent popularity prompted him to publish his work on a private host site where it exploded to hundreds of thousands of hits in one day effectively crashing the low-bandwidth private site. Forced to take his material back to its original site on WordPress an incredulous Lander watched the hyper-exponential growth of his blog peak at 800000 hits before being contacted by literary agents eager to buy his material in late February last year. However soon afterwards Lander was aggressively contacted by four of the five Hollywood talent agencies. He eventually signed with William Morris. The rocketing trajectory of the project which began with an obscure blog and crested in July with a New York Times bestselling book has landed the unassuming Lander with a signing advance of $300000 and a guest spot on The Conan ‘Brien show alongside Tim Gunn and Jerry ‘Connell. Lander a Toronto native and self-described “white guy” was keen to make the point that his writing is not an indictment of skin color but rather a commentary on well-educated liberal affluent denizens of North America.
George Donnelly seeks to turn over Transparency Caucus other …
Independent Political Report MI
This would be just the yahoogroups list the website (wordpress self-hosted) and the domain I think. In order to take ownership of the domain you would have to pay for ayear of registration at your domain registrar of choice. I won’tcharge anything for it. I’d like to wrap this up by Feb 15. I’ve offered to take over the yahoo group and so far I am aware of Jim Davidson offering to help pay for the domain(s).
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What is Twitter? Tweet? Impact on Domaining?
Domain informer IL
This domain twitter method can also drive up the value and price of your domain if they both work smoothly together. Keep in mind a twitter account and a domain relationship will not work in every situation. If you are using Wordpress for your website I recommend this. Like any social network it is very important to give more than you take. If you stick to this motto on Twitter you can really become successful. For goodness sakes Don’t Be Spammy! Promote others help others with questions be sincere give your tweeters what they want and your efforts will come back ten fold.
How We Moved Thomas Hawk to WordPress
Technosailor MD
A few weeks ago a comment was made on Friendfeed (I don’t remember how it started) and it became clear to me that Thomas desperately wanted to get off of the Blogger blog platform. I’m always looking to help people move to WordPress so I asked him to contact me. As a veteran of moving people to WordPress I was sure I could help him out.