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Recently a study was released by Pingdom regarding the content management systems (CMS) used by the web's top blogs and, perhaps not surprisingly, almost half of those sites were powered by Wordpress. 48 of the top 100 are using Wordpress as their backend system, while Movable Type, the second most used CMS, powers only 7 of the top 100 blogs.
WordPress has been around a long time and is quite a powerful web publishing platform available to virtually everyone at no cost. I finally got around to installing the official WordPress app onto my iPod Touch and I have to say I’m impressed with the app. It quickly accepted the credentials to my own WordPress blog, and I found I
For some time we’ve been hearing about the virtues of cloud-based computing. Certain functions seem to lend themselves to the cloud. Online word processing, spreadsheets, etc. can seem to make sense in some situations, such as collaborating with others. In everyday use scenarios, does the cloud really make sense in more traditional private computer-use situations? I contend that it does
On July 23, 2010, CNN anchors Kyra Phillips and John Roberts discussed on air the idea that bloggers should be somehow “held accountable” or perhaps regulated in some way. Here's the video of that exchange. It’s no secret that CNN and other so-called mainstream media outlets, both broadcast and print, have had for some time now an ongoing loss of
From time-to-time I develop websites for clients and they generally want something reasonable (cheap) and easy to maintain. I’ve been hearing about a new company, SquareSpace, and how great it was so I decided to try it for myself. I was generating a proposal to update a website and decided to implement a prototype in Squarespace so the client could actually test drive my ideas.
There has been a lot of talk over recent years about how online classifieds like Craigslist have been the cause of the decline in the overall revenue and profit of the newspaper industry (some papers still thrive). I do not believe that this is the whole story though. Newspapers did not start with a business model based on classifieds, they
I have been pretty busy with school, work, business and needed to take some extra time with the family. This is one of the reasons I have not been posting as much in the last couple of weeks. Also it seems most of the tech news has been pretty low key.