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Terrifying WordPress statistic of the day
14.7% of all websites run on WordPress, but even more impressive, 22% of new websites created last year were built on WordPress. Via Wordcamp 2011 – has anyone bought Matt a Persian cat to stroke in a Blofeld like way?
When are a million Twitter apps not really a million Twitter apps?
So Twitter has one million registered applications? Okay, let’s have a list. And when this list (which I doubt we’ll ever see) comes out, we can find out how many of them are honest to goodness apps, and how many are workarounds for blog plug-ins so posts like this one can be auto-tweeted. Given each blog needs to be registered as an application in plug-ins like Twitter Tools, and WordPress has just announced they have over 50 million blogs (and around 25 million of them are personally hosted versions), I’ll take Twitter’s Million with not just a grain of salt,
Stand by for a million Techcrunch clones to get a redesign next week
Techcrunch is getting a new look next week, after almost a year of working on the design. They’re also sticking with WordPress, so expect a "TC-Template" to appear in the WordPress Themes Directory about forty five minutes after Arrington and Co make it live.
Outfoxed by SEO, New Labour Blog Fails In “Being A Blog”
Last week, Labour Party Member (and ex “Spin Doctor†from Downing Street) Derek Draper launched the Labour List to a lot of fanfare and personal appearances in the media. The noise in the UK Political scene was a bit more critical, pointing out errors, mistakes in the approach, and generally saying it looked and smelt like an attack dog from Labour HQ. None of this was helped by Draper’s “leave me alone, it’s just launched and in beta†attitude To which I ask why shout about it and go on television? I’ve been keeping an eye on it as best
How Long Is The Perfect Blog Post?
Further to the long discussion about the length of online video, the changes to WordPress.com and the stats counter showing the number of active bloggers and the number of words today has an interesting comment from Matt Mullenweg: What’s odd is that average number of words per post is almost always exactly 250. (Comment quoted from the WordPress Blog).
