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	<title>The Blog Herald</title>
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	<description>The leading source of news covering the blogosphere, Web 2.0, new technology, and related topics.</description>
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		<title>WordPress Wednesday News: WordCamps in Australia and Hawaii, Security Check Plugin, Google Gears, Lots of Plugin News and Tips, WordPress 2.6 News, and If Not WordPress, What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordCamps in Australia and Hawaii announced. Worried about security? New WordPress Plugin to scan for WordPress exploits. Lots of tips for WordPress Plugin writers. Weblog Tools Collection Plugin Competition heating up with great Plugins. WordPress 2.6 Beta Candidate part two released. Google Gears for WordPress.com. Lots of news on WordPress 2.6. And if not WordPress, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/04/wordpress-wednesday-news-wordcamps-in-australia-and-hawaii-security-check-plugin-google-gears-lots-of-plugin-news-and-tips-wordpress-26-news-and-if-not-wordpress-what/</link>
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		<title>UK companies aren&#8217;t clear on new &#8220;fake blogging&#8221; laws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[British companies which pretend to blog as ordinary members of the public, or post multiple positive reviews as if from consumers, are now breaking UK law, yet many don&#8217;t know anything about the new legislation, according to Brands2Life.
Its director, Gareth Thomas, said that, &#8220;Most people don&#8217;t know about this law,&#8221; adding, &#8220;there is a misconception [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/04/uk-companies-arent-clear-on-new-fake-blogging-laws/</link>
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		<title>Berocca sends out Blogger Relief Packs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept may not be that new, but a couple of weeks ago a colleague introduced me to Berocca&#8217;s Blogger Relief Pack. I signed up with one of my blogs, and yesterday received the pack.

While it&#8217;s not the complete answer to managing the stress of blogging, a tube of Berocca and a nice glass to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/04/berocca-sends-out-blogger-relief-packs/</link>
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		<title>Gawker Media cuts payrates&#8230; Again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Gawker Media has cut the pay of their bloggers, according to a post over at Radar.
You may recall that not too long ago, Gawker Media moved to a model where their bloggers were tied to the traffc on their individual blog posts - along with a system of traffic bonuses and other incentives.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/04/gawker-media-cuts-payrates-again/</link>
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		<title>Do You Need a Photograph?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One piece of advice I give bloggers is to show their photograph.
Lately I have been asked if it is really essential, are there cases where it might not be a good idea?
Here are the cases for and against:
In Favor of Photographs

One of the reasons people will visit your site will be to find out about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/04/do-you-need-a-photograph/</link>
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		<title>ScribeFire 2.2.8 Released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ScribeFire is a popular desktop blogging application hosted in a Firefox extension. Version 2.2.8 includes fixes and some brush-ups. The extension is free to download from Mozilla Add-ons, and works with both Firefox 2 and 3.
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		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/04/scribefire-228-released/</link>
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		<title>Two New b5media Blogs Launched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another two b5media blogs launched recently. Marye Audet edits Simply Home Remedies, which is about just that. This from the launch post:
For the past 20 years or so my family has lived without the assistance of commercial medicines or doctors, except for things like broken arms and emergency surgeries on retro-pharyngeal abscesses. You know, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/04/two-new-b5media-blogs-launched-2/</link>
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		<title>Hitting the Frontpage of Digg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Skelliewag takes a look at playing the odds and trying to &#8220;win&#8221; with Digg - a great article with some fantastic tips on how to promote your site using Digg.
Most bloggers would love their content to hit the front page of Digg. Unfortunately, most of those bloggers are never able to experience the huge spike [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/03/hitting-the-frontpage-of-digg/</link>
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		<title>Firefox 3 Plugin Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Firefox 3 has been out for more than a week - and has set a new Guinness World Record for the most downloads in a single day - several websites have begun recapping the plugin/addon situation for Firefox.
BSPCN outlines the 30 &#8220;Must Have&#8221; Firefox Extensions, including del.icio.us toolbar, Foxmarks, and Greasemonkey.
PC World looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/03/firefox-3-plugin-roundup/</link>
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		<title>WordPress.com Enables Support for Google Gears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WordPress.com have added a Turbo button in the admin area. This is to enable Google Gears, if your browser supports it, and speed up things using it. For instance, Google Gears is used for offline access to web apps like Google Docs, but how can it benefit WordPress.com?
On WordPress.com it is used to store all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/03/wordpresscom-enables-support-for-google-gears/</link>
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		<title>Blogged.com Rebuilds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Promising to help you &#8216;find better blogs&#8217; is Blogged.com.  The directory site has just launched some new features and improvements.  Most notably, they do a better job of highlighting interesting blogs over several niches.  The goal appears to aggregate news and information that is well-written, though not necessarily accessible through mainstream media.
Among [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/03/bloggedcom-rebuilds/</link>
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		<title>Firefox 3 Broke the World Record</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I bet they are happy at Mozilla, since the world record attempt in largest number of software downloads in 24 hours was successful. Firefox 3 was downloaded 8,002,530 times. If you participated, you can get your own certificate. I&#8217;ve got one.
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		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/03/firefox-3-broke-the-world-record/</link>
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		<title>Technical Issues, Mostly Resolved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you might have noticed, The Blog Herald haven&#8217;t been feeling well lately. Database errors, too much load on the server, things like that have been plaguing us. Yesterday, a lot of work was put in by the tech staff, and hopefully things will run more smoothly from now on. There are still some kinks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/03/technical-issues-mostly-resolved/</link>
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		<title>Quality or Quantity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So many bloggers look at Techcrunch and co churning out post after post and think quantity is the real trick to blogging success.

More posts equals more traffic
Lots of updates equals more favor from search
Posts make page views, which earns ad dollars
Etc

Is quantity all it takes? How important is quality? 
Just recently I received this story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/02/quality-or-quantity/</link>
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		<title>How Long Does It Take You to Write a Blog Post?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m often asked how long it takes me to write a blog post or web article. My answer is: until it&#8217;s done. 
Some blog posts take only a few minutes from idea to finished product. A few minutes to edit and clean it up, making sure I&#8217;ve got all the bits and pieces in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/01/how-long-does-it-take-you-to-write-a-blog-post/</link>
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		<title>Adobe Makes Flash Sites Visible To Google, Yahoo, But Not Microsoft?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It looks as if Adobe has given sight to blind search engines. Previously if web designers of blogs, web sites, etc. coded their site in flash, they would have to give up the ability to have their site indexed by the Google giant, and their whipping boy Yahoo!
Now bloggers, web developers and social networks will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/01/adobe-makes-flash-sites-visible-to-google-yahoo-but-not-microsoft/</link>
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		<title>Has Blogging Killed Your Writing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been catching up on the Showtime program Californication.  Centered around mid-life crisis sufferer Hank Moody (played by David Duchovny), the show is packed with sex and sarcasm.  A subplot follows the lead as his career as a novelist dead ends due to writer&#8217;s block, leaving him with no choice but to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/01/has-blogging-killed-your-writing/</link>
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		<title>Flash to be Searchable, Blog Platform Next?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Adobe is making Flash searchable, in partnership with juggernauts like Google. ReadWrite/Web writes about it, and is writing up Adobe&#8217;s online activity overall, like AIR and Acrobat.com. I think they are spot on, Adobe is really focusing on online these days, and they are doing it well. Think about all the AIR apps, for instance.
However, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/01/flash-to-be-searchable-blog-platform-next/</link>
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		<title>Top Three Lessons from Online Communities, from Devin Reams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogger Devin Reams recently took a look at the top three lessons from online communities.
Devin is one of the founders of Yopos, a community for young entrepreneurs.
Devin highlights the three lessons in his detailed post:
Existing community must already be strong
When I say strong you need to have an extreme amount of quality or quantity. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/01/top-three-lessons-from-online-communities-from-devin-reams/</link>
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		<title>1938 Media inks deal with Verizon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Loren Feldman is having a busy week.  Yesterday, 1938 Media inked a deal with Verizon Wireless to carry his content on their VCast network, according to this post at TechCrunch.  Feldman confirmed the news later in the day yesterday with a brief video post.
At TechCrunch, Arrington writes of the deal:
But starting today Verizon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/01/1938-media-inks-deal-with-verizon/</link>
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		<title>Google AdSense retiring referral program, launches affiliate program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google Adsense is retiring their referral program and launching a new affiliate based program using software and tools acquired from their acquisition of internet advertising firm Doubleclick last year.
On the Inside AdSense blog, the AdSense team writes:
As part of the integration of DoubleClick, the DoubleClick Performics Affiliate Network will now operate as the Google Affiliate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/07/01/google-adsense-retiring-referral-program-launches-affiliate-program/</link>
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		<title>Movable Type Monday: Action Streams, FriendFeed, Greyhound, RC3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week saw another round of incredible plugins being released with the majority focussed on integrating your Movable Type blog with third party services including  FriendFeed, action stream plugins for BrightKite, Seesmic and Sporepedia! The bi-weekly Movable Type Conference Call was also held and featured updates about upcoming and future releases. Release Candidate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/30/movable-type-monday-action-streams-friendfeed-greyhound-rc3/</link>
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		<title>Doubting the Legitimacy of Blog Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you get a comment such as:
Teens are upward on the drooling era because they aren’t unmarried to scrimp joyous and attractive proclamations and they are amorously the depressing to be the looks of hollywood icons.
And it arrives on a blog post about your favorite WordPress Plugins, it&#8217;s really clear that this is comment spam, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/30/doubting-the-legitimacy-of-blog-comments/</link>
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		<title>Legal Issues with Choosing a Host</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding a new host is never easy.
First, one has to choose the kind of hosting and the plan that they need, something that is almost impossible with a new site. Second, they have to find a quality host at a reasonable price, which is also difficult because nearly all hosts have at least some negative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/30/legal-issues-with-choosing-a-host/</link>
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		<title>Retirement of Bill Gates:  Top Ten Greatest Hits (and Misses)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Bill Gate&#8217;s last day of work being today - you can see a great list of his top ten greatest hits (and misses) over at Engadget.
My favorite miss - The Auto PC:
Riding high on its previously-introduced sister products &#8212; the Handheld PC and Palm PC platforms, now dead and transformed into Windows Mobile, respectively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/30/retirement-of-bill-gates-top-ten-greatest-hits-and-misses/</link>
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		<title>Analysis of TechCrunch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neoformix has published an interesting analysis of articles at TechCrunch:
The graph clearly shows the companies that have dominated TechCrunch coverage over the last 2 years. Google looks biggest with FaceBook, Yahoo, and Microsoft being quite large as well. You can spot the increase in coverage for Microsoft and Yahoo in Feb of this year due [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/30/analysis-of-techcrunch/</link>
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		<title>And the puppets move on&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Loren Feldman, of 1938 Media, has put an end to the Shel Israel puppet game.
In his post from Saturday evening entitled Open Letter to Shel Israel:  It&#8217;s Over, Feldman announces the end of the dispute to Shel:
When I first started my career, you made it a point to bury me online, and more importantly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/30/and-the-puppets-move-on/</link>
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		<title>Splashpress Media acquires CSS Star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our parent company, Splashpress Media, has acquired CSS Star, a gallery &#038; design oriented blog of CSS designs:
CSS Star is managed by one of our resident design gurus, Ia Lucero, who is always on the hunt for well-designed websites, and regularly posts these on the site. CSS Star, which features a rating and ranking system [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/30/splashpress-media-acquires-css-star/</link>
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		<title>Marc Andreeseen has joined the Facebook Board of Directors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Marc Andreeseen, the founder of Netscape, and presently the co-founder of social media startup Ning, has joined the board of directors of Facebook:
Andreessen joins Facebook at a crucial time in its growth. Competitors MySpace and (increasingly) Google are gunning for control of the social graph, which may be the engine that drives the next big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/30/marc-andreeseen-has-joined-the-facebook-board-of-directors/</link>
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		<title>CNet profiles TMZ&#8217;s Technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNet takes a look at the technology behind TMZ.com - one of the leading celebrity news blogs:
Other newsrooms have migrated from videotape to digital, but TMZ, perhaps best-known for its reporting on Seinfeld star Michael Richards&#8217; racist tirade, was designed for the Digital Age. Not only does this enable TMZ cameramen to shoot using lighter, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/30/cnet-profiles-tmzs-technology/</link>
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		<title>Boing Boing Deletes Blogger, Not the First Time?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is alarming. Sex blogger, journalist, and author Violet Blue&#8217;s posts on Boing Boing, including all mentions, has been deleted (NSFW), without any explanation whatsoever:
It was brought to my attention this weekend that every Boing Boing post (except one) with my name in it is gone. It might have happened a while ago, and no, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/29/boing-boing-deletes-blogger-not-the-first-time/</link>
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		<title>Twing.com to Search Your Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twing.com is a new search engine, geared at forums and online communities. They&#8217;ve been around since January, and as the site shows, it is still very much beta. Not only the actual service, but the site as well - the how to use page is lacking, for example.
Nevertheless, it looks like an interesting service that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/28/twingcom-to-search-your-forum/</link>
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		<title>Do You Podcast? Are You Going to Podcast on Your Blog?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I brought up the issue of podcasts in What Makes Podcasts Fun To Listen To?  The post asked what makes your favorite podcasts fun and successful in your eyes in format and structure.
Podcasts on blogs are growing in popularity. With portable media players, especially iPods, more affordable and accessible, people are downloading podcasts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/27/do-you-podcast-are-you-going-to-podcast-on-your-blog/</link>
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		<title>Are you a Marathon Blogger or a Sprinter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blogging has probably matured a great deal since you started. Part of it is that it has reached critical mass, or tipping point, as it may be. The more people have blogs, the more blogs out there contending for everyone’s time and attention. Part of it is that thanks to all the great advice out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/27/are-you-a-marathon-blogger-or-a-sprinter/</link>
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		<title>3 Free and Instant Sources of News Content Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What should I write about?&#8221;
I am guessing for most people that is a familiar question. For people who set out to cover the news, it is an even more pressing question.
The Blog Herald, thankfully, allows both news and more opinion/tutorial type pieces. I don&#8217;t have to be on top of the latest happenings provided I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/27/quick-content-ideas/</link>
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		<title>New On Google&#8217;s Blogger: Import-Export Blogs, Ratings And Embeded Comment Forms?</title>
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Users of Google&#8217;s Blogger (aka BlogSpot) platform will be excited to see three new features being tested on Google&#8217;s eternal beta site for Blogger (which can be accessed over at draft.blogger.com).
The first is the ability for BlogSpot users to Import/Export their blogs to/from another server, computer or another blog platform.
(Blogger in Draft) Today’s release brings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/26/new-on-googles-blogger-import-export-blogs-ratings-and-embeded-comment-forms/</link>
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		<title>What Makes Podcasts Fun To Listen To?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been listening to a lot of blogger podcasts lately covering a wide range of subjects. Most have a fairly standard format of introduction, preview of the show to come, then news, interviews, and a summary, but some just jump right in and wander all over the place.
Well-written blog posts tend to have a single [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/26/what-makes-podcasts-fun-to-listen-to/</link>
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		<title>BlogTalkRadio Secures $4.6m in Funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Podcasting service BlogTalkRadio have secured $4.6 million in Series A funding, which sparked a piece in the Bits blog, and an announcement post in the official blog of course:
We simply couldn’t be more excited about how this company is evolving and now we have the capital in place to accomplish many things. We are planning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/26/blogtalkradio-secures-46m-in-funding/</link>
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		<title>WordPress Wednesday News: Your Own Song in the Plugin Competition, WordPress 2.6 Beta and First Looks, WordCamp UK New Location, Batcache, Naked Themes, and More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want your own song? Win the Weblog Tools Collection WordPress Plugin Competition! WordPress 2.6 Beta released for testing. First looks at the new features coming in WordPress 2.6. WordCamp UK changes locations. Batcache strikes. Plugin menus on the Administration Panels discussed. Is your WordPress Theme naked without a print stylesheet? We&#8217;ve got WordPress tips, WordPress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/wordpress-wednesday-news-your-own-song-in-the-plugin-competition-wordpress-26-beta-and-first-looks-wordcamp-uk-new-location-batcache-naked-themes-and-more/</link>
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		<title>More Web Services and WordPress Plugins Worth Checking Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FeedCompare: Lets you do an Alexa-style compare of several blogs&#8217; feed subscriber numbers as reported by FeedBurner. Just type the names of several blogs and you&#8217;ll get a pretty graph with lines in different colors laid over each other.

FeedCompare


Feedly: A Firefox plug in that creates a slick start page based on content at your various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/more-web-services-and-wordpress-plugins-worth-checking-out/</link>
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		<title>Daniel Jalkut Bashes WordPress 2.6 XMLRPC Decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniel Jalkut is the creator current developer and owner of Mac blog application MarsEdit (a great one, by the way), so it should come as no surprise that he&#8217;s a bit pissed about the fact that XMLRPC will be disabled by default in WordPress 2.6. For those who doesn&#8217;t know, XMLRPC is the way outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/daniel-jalkut-bashes-wordpress-26-xmlrpc-decision/</link>
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		<title>Axl Rose Seriously Pissed at Blogger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seventeen years in the making, there&#8217;s no way that Guns n&#8217; Roses&#8217; perpetually forthcoming album Chinese Democracy will live up to the hype.  Frustrated by the wait, blogger Kevin Skwerl who runs Antiquiet, decided to leak nine tracks that he received from an &#8220;anonymous source.&#8221;
Bad move.
Upon returning to work from lunch, a team of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/axl-rose-seriously-pissed-at-blogger/</link>
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		<title>What lesson or advice would you give to Shel Israel?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written on this issue enough I think - as I sat here this morning with my morning coffee, I was trying to decide whether or not to even broach the subject of Shel Israel v. Loren Feldman again.. but then I decided that perhaps the best thing to do would be to ask the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/what-lesson-or-advice-would-you-give-to-shel-israel/</link>
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		<title>Paul Stamatiou takes a look at Firefox plugin Feedly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Georgia Tech tech-blogger Paul Stamatiou reviews Feedly - a new plugin for firefox at his blog paulstamatiou.com:
Feedly is described as “a more social and magazine-like start page.”
Feedly taps into RSS aggregators like Bloglines and Google Reader and socially-oriented sites like Friendfeed and Twitter. The end result is a tight grasp on information overload. Loads of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/paul-stamitiou-takes-a-look-at-firefox-plugin-feedly/</link>
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		<title>Shoemoney provides an early look at Wordpress 2.6beta1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate marketing powerhouse Shoemoney is providing an early look at Wordpress 2.6beta1, which is now available for download from the Wordpress development servers:
My favorite new feature is the post revisions. I can’t tell you how many times I have had the same post open in multiple windows and accidentally over written a previous post. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/shoemoney-provides-an-early-look-at-wordpress-26beta1/</link>
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		<title>Scoble writes of how technology will change the world of DC - and perhaps politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A twitter from the oval office?  The Speaker of the House&#8217;s staff blogging?  Could some sort of change finally be coming to Washington, DC - and by that I don&#8217;t mean Obama?
Sometimes I wonder of the tech-sanity of our elected leaders.  When I met with my own Congresswomen back in October, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/scoble-writes-of-how-technology-will-change-the-world-of-dc-and-perhaps-politics/</link>
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		<title>Twitter takes additional investments, welcomes Jeff Bezos and Bijan Sabet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter formally announces their additional investments and welcomes Jeff Bezos and Bijan Sabet as investors in the company.  Bijan Sabet will join the board of Twitter.
Jeff Bezos, of course, is the founder and CEO of Amazon.
Biz Stone writes on the twitter blog:
Jeff Bezos is said to have displayed intense and varied scientific interests at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/twitter-takes-additional-investments-welcomes-jeff-bezos-and-bijan-sabet/</link>
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		<title>Steven Hodson joins Mashable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my more recent adds to my newsreader is Steven Hodson of WinExtra.  Over the last few weeks he&#8217;s been guesting posting at Mashable, giving him exposure to a broader audience on a very popular blog.
Now he&#8217;s announcing that he is joining Mashable as a regular blogger:
I am really looking forward to writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/steven-hodson-joins-mashable/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Miss this Free Blog Monetization Teleseminar Call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Denise from The Blog Squad emailed me to let me know about a free live interview with Darren Rowse and I wanted to share the news with you.
The Blog Squad is pleased to have snagged busy pro-blogger Darren Rowse for an interview about what makes his blog so successful with nearly 48,000 subscribers!
Darren of course [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/25/dont-miss-this-free-blog-monetization-teleseminar-call/</link>
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		<title>The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog Ebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Liz Strauss released her new ebook, The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works, this weekend to rave reviews.
Based upon the lessons she learned on her own blogs, Successful and Outstanding Bloggers and Liz Strauss, as a long time writer for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/24/the-secret-to-writing-a-successful-and-outstanding-blog-ebook/</link>
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