1. You shall not put your blog before your integrity.
   
2. You shall not make an idol of your blog.
   
3. You shall not misuse your screen name by using your anonymity to sin.
   
4. Remember the Sabbath day by taking one day off a week from your blog.
   
5. Honour your fellow-bloggers above yourselves and do not give undue significance to their mistakes.
   
6. You shall not murder someone else’s honour, reputation or feelings.
   
7. You shall not use the web to commit or permit adultery in your mind.
   
8. You shall not steal another person’s content.
   
9. You shall not give false testimony against your fellow-blogger.
   
10. You shall not covet your neighbour’s blog ranking. Be content with your own content.
    

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Here are some of the enhancements that Otto covers:
▪ Creating a 2.7 compatible comments.php file
▪ Password protection check
▪ The comments loop
▪ The power of Ajax
▪ Styling

We all know that commenting is one of the awesome features that WordPress is known for. Apparently the development team is taking this feature a step further by offering important feature upgrades like threading, paging and javascript enhancements.

I bet ‘ya this will result in better blogs as people can now interact intuitively from one comment to another.

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The National Society of Newspaper Columnists is thinking about adding a blogging category to its annual awards contest.



At its recent meeting, the NSNC board of directors passed a motion to inquire the contest chair to present a proposal for such a category.



Current categories cover general-interest, humor, notes/items, and online writing. Award winners are announced during the NSNC’s annual June conference.

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Obsessable covers the latest in the world of technology, including cell phones, cameras, and HDTVs - obsessively, of course. Obsessable is poweruddy by the rapid content development engine, Crowd Fusion.

Like Weblogs Inc before it, Crowd Fusion is being built on a custom built content management system (at Weblogs Inc it was BlogSmith). The angle is that the new CMS allows the team to do things they think are important in a better way, without relying on an existing platform such as MovableType (which powers Gawker Media sites among others) and WordPress.



Backed with $3 million from investors including Marc Andreessen and Ross Levinsohn, the list of team members reads like a walk down Weblogs Inc memory lane. Along with Alvey, Barb Dybwad was a former producer at Engadget, CTO Craig Wood was formerley a member of the Blogsmith team, COO Judith Meskill was at one time COO of Weblogs Inc, and CMO Steve Friedman was on the Weblogs Inc sales team…and that’s just the ones we know about so far.

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xmlrpc.php works better if you use multiple sites. #735
get_option() wasn’t reading all options.
Configurable media buttons on the Write page. #598, #738
404 “file not found” errors on folder installs is mostly fixed. #745
And more .. (timeline)

You can download WordPress MU 2.6.2 right here.

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After letting them gestate in beta for a while, AOL has formally launched two new “lifestyle” sites: entertainment blog PopEater and quirky women’s lifestyle title Lemondrop. They’re the latest in a series of original blogs that AOL has rolled out, from men’s site Asylum to Web meme blog Urlesque, adding to the titles it absorbed when it acquiruddy the Weblogs Inc. network.



Lemondrop is cute, fluffier than Jezebel but a little bit edgier than anything you’d see in the squeaky-clean Sugar Inc. blog network. When I loaded it up, the top story was a rant called “I Miss Making Out,” and further down was a gallery of sexy fictional murderers in conjunction with the recent news that the slasher flick American Psycho will be adapted into a stage musical.



As for PopEater, AOL alalert owns a phenomenally successful entertainment site, TMZ.com, so a new one may look a bit redundant. PopEater, however, looks like it’s more Entertainment Weekly than Us Weekly, focused more on how the fall TV season’s faring than which celebrity is staggering drunk out of which West Hollywood nigthclub.

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Forutnately there is a WordPress plugin to help you… A new plugin developed by Donncha O Caoimh released a new version.  Here’s the plugin intro specs:

WP Super Cache 0.8

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After an html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

However, because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment, the plugin will only serve static html files to:

1. Users who are not logged in.
2. Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
3. Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.

The good news is that probably more than 99% of your visitors don’t do any of the above! Those users who don’t see the static files will still benefit because they will see regular WP-Cache cached files and your server won’t be as busy as before. This plugin should help your server cope with a front page appearance on digg.com or other social networking site.

You can check this page and this page for more information regarding this plugin.

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Ok, ’nuff about teeth, backup these days are equally important though. If you’ve been situated where there was “hair pulling” and “table banging” because you failed to backup, here’s a tool that may make you avoid that horrific episode.

The Imation Apollo Pro WX Hard Drive.

It’s a USB wireless hard drive (comes in 250GB to 1TB storage capacity) that you can conceal anywhere wilean 30 feet AND STILL be able to access as if you’ve got your own “data cloud” at home. Comes pre-packed with data security features that ensures you private and sole access to it. No worries about the neighbors trying to peek in and create havoc with your files.

Right now, it works with the Dell Latitude and XPS models AND with Kensington’s four-port Wireless USB Docking Station. Soon enough, I’m sure it will expand its compatibility to a lot of PCs and notebooks.

It will be available Q4 of 2008. No price listed yet.

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• Google’s G-1 Phone ignited a tech blogstorm.
  
• Technorati recently acquired the BlogCritics network. This makes Technorati a search/content/ad-network hybrid sort of like Yahoo has become - but obviously on a smaller scale than Yahoo.
  
• Study finds more hiring managers are using social networks like Facebook and LinkedIn to evaluate potential hires.
  
• Twittermoms is a site where Twitter moms can connect with other Twittering moms. (via TechCrunch)
  
• Bits reports that Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers have started a blog about the iPhone and their $100 million iFund in mobile applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. The blog is at ifundvc.com
  
• Another Bits post asks
  how many web services one person can use. A person can update a lot of web services with tools like Ping.fm but they can’t really maintain an active presence on too many websites.
  
• TwitterKeys will let you add some UFT8 icons to your Twitter conversations.
  
• Editor and Publisher launched two new blogs: Fitz & Jen and The E&P Pub.
  
• Giga Omni Media acquired The Apple Blog.
  
• A blogger was arrested for posting 9 unrelease Guns N’ Roses songs.
  
• Boing Boing and Kevin Kelly discuss the idea of the Whole Earth Catalog as a blog from the 1970s.
  
• Valleywag says that 2/3 of Heavy.com’s salesforce has left.
  
• Gwyneth Paltrow is launch a lifestyle site called Goop. Some details here.
  
• A blog with a long name
  thingswithapproximatelyasmanypeopleaswasilla.com attempts to point out that
  lots of places and things have as many people as Sarah Palin’s hometown where she was mayor.
  
• Boing Boing Gadgets was not impressed with Esquire’s E-Ink cover.
  
• 1.1 million people read the Wikipedia entry for Sarah Palin in the 36 hours following her introduction. Slate says a college sophmore gets credit for pushing Palin as the vp choice.
  

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