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WordPress Runs Almost Half of the Web’s Top Blogs

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.

Does The Cloud Have A Dark Side?

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

Venture Capitalist Investing In Bloggers

The hand writing has been on the wall for a long time now. People are getting a lot of the content they consume on a daily basis from Bloggers, Podcasters and Video Casters. I think my daily consumption is about 90% from the preceding categories. One thing I am learning though is that at least on the podcasting side most

Back up My Blog at backupmyblog.com

Very cool site, I run a script every 24 hours to backup my databases already, but this website makes it real easy for those that are not that savvy on getting cron jobs running. [www.backupmyblog.com]

Firefox Blogging Tool to Rule All!

Got a heads up this morning on a awesome Firefox Blogging Extension. I pretty impressed, this is a beta release but wow nice job to the guys over at [Performancing.com]

The best thing about being a Blogger!

No mater what people will say in reviews on wikipedia or anywhere else the power of a Blog is that you can stand up and spell the facts out as you see them. Their are always two sides to a story in any dispute or even recollections to events and proceedings. It is one of the reasons I use a

European Publishers essentially tell Google quit stealing our content!

I know many of you use Google News, personally I have been to the site maybe a dozen times or so over the past year. It seems though that European publishers are getting a little tired of Google making money of the backs of all of their paid staff and thinks they have went to far and are abusing fair