Holiday Cheer Needed to Help Release WordPress 3.1

We take and take and take from WordPress, people all over the world, all for free. Now it’s time to give a little back. If you have even the least coding experience, the WordPress development team needs your help over the next few days to test WordPress 3.1 Beta 2 and get the Release Candidates […]

Annual Holiday Marathon: Best Ho, Wealth, Tech, Holiday Lights via Web, and Holiday Joy

Join me and the rest of the Bitwire Media crew for too much fun this Saturday, December 19, 2009, for the annual Holiday Marathon from 6AM to 6PM PST. Each year, the Bitwire Media team celebrate the holidays with a live podcast and video marathon, with interviews, stories, laughter, games, contests, and a lot of […]

WordPress.com Maintenance Downtime on Sunday, February 15, 2009

WordPress.com warns that the free blog hosting service will be down for maintenance starting Sunday, February 15, 2009, at 20:00 GMT (noon PST, 3PM EST) for maintenance and upgrade improvements. This should only be a few seconds to a couple minutes. This does not impact full version and self-hosted versions of WordPress. The maintenance probably […]

Talking WordPress on the Bitwire Holiday Marathon

Want to get into some holiday fun and spirit with some holiday WordPress joy? The Bitwire Holiday Marathon is all day, December 20th from 6am-6pm Pacific time, and will include tons of great entertainment, discussions, games, giveaways, and lots of holiday spirit. I will be appearing at 8AM PST to babble WordPress nonsense and fun. […]

When is the Best Time and Day to Publish a Blog Post

I’ve just updated my article, “When is the Best Time and Day to Post on Your Blog?” Originally published in June of 2006, once a year I update the post, continuing to evaluate when is the best time and day of the week to publish a post on your blog, helping you make your own […]

WordPress 2.7 Hits WordPress.com Thursday, December 4, 2008

In an announcement on the WordPress.com blog, WordPress 2.7 will arrive on Thursday, December 4, 2008, at 8PM Eastern Time in the United States. The article also includes instructions on what to expect on WordPress.com from the new features and instructions on using the new Administration Panel interface, though most of it is really user […]

Join the SOB Birthday Party with Liz Strauss

I’ve been in Hawaii for Hawaii Geek Week studying social the Aloha way, including a day long session in the Social Media Club Hawaii Workshop, and am confused as many of you about this the new “social” on the web and what it really means. I woke up this morning with part of the definition […]

Taking Action on Blog Action Day October 15, 2008

Blog Action Day 2008 is October 15th this year and the topic up for bloggy discussion is poverty. The site offers a lot of suggestions on ways to blog about poverty including technology blogs exploring poverty fighting initiatives, a political blog comparing candidate positions on the issue, and a sports blog covering charity activities by […]

Lorelle versus Jeffro2pt0 on WordPress Weekly This Friday

Get ready for Friday. Lorelle and Jeffro2pt0 will duke it out on the WordPress Weekly Show! Due to a variety of unfortunate circumstances, including tornadoes, last week’s WordPress Weekly live show was rescheduled to this Friday, April 18, 2008, with myself and host, Jeffro2pt0. You have no excuses now to join us Friday at 9PM […]

Strip Down Your Blog: CSS Naked Day

Get ready to go naked. On April 9th, 2008, hundreds, possibly thousands, of blogs and websites will go naked in honor of CSS Naked Day. Join fellow WordPress bloggers in honoring web designers and WordPress Theme builders by going naked. This is the third year of the annual CSS Naked Day which honors web design […]

Are You Willing To Go Naked For One Day For Akismet?

Are you willing to let your blog go naked for one day? No, it isn’t time for CSS Naked Day. Mark on Akismet was intrigued by the announcement by Jesper Rønn-Jensen to turn off all comment spam protection on December 15, and now challenges all Akismet users to turn off Akismet for a day. It’s […]

Blog Challenge: Blog About a Holiday Tradition

Your blogging challenge this week is dedicated to the holidays which fall, for most cultures, in the last month or so of the year. Be it Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hanuka, Ramadan, Kwanzaa, or whatever holidays occur for your culture, religion or nation. Your blogging challenge is: Blog about a traditional holiday ritual, habit, memory, or […]

Write Today, Post Tomorrow: Using Post Timestamp

By Dawud Miracle When you’re blogging, you want to post as consistently as possible. If you’re on a three-days each week schedule, then you want to post on the same days each week. If you’re posting once-per-week, you really want to try to publish a post each day. Notice I said ‘post each day’ not […]

If I was to start writing & blogging today I would…

By Greg Balanko-Dickson I have been writing online daily since 1998 and only converted to blogging in 2005. In the last two years things have changed considerably and I would do things differently. This all started with reading a post courtesy Steve @ Micro Persuasion: …the world now tuns faster. The blogosphere has transformed from […]

Happy Birthday, Edublogs.org

Edublogs.org turns two today. Happy Birthday! Edublogs.org was the first to embrace WordPressMU, the multi-user version of WordPress which, a month later, powered WordPress.com. From the beginning, James Farmer’s goal was to provide free blogs to educators, especially teachers then later students, to build an interactive community where teachers can share and communicate with other […]