Ergebnisse

Main bloggerilla topic of the week: the new WordPress aka 2.7. Matt and his team change a lot in the backend – it’s like Obama said: “Change, we can do it!” What O did not mention though was the fact that change makes most folks rather uncomfortable. In that respect, it’s more like TLC sang-rapped: “Don’t go chasin’ waterfalls / listen to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.” In other words, I’ve heard a lot of user complaining about a so-called uglification of the CMS. My five cents: so far I’ve only updated half of my blogs, and I really dig the new look and all the new features.

The new WordPress 2.7

A lot of hard programming work has gone into this release: every backend-screen is customizable, so it should be easier than ever to fit WP to your needs. Furthermore, this updating-round is the last manual one: from 2.7 or “Coltrane”, WP updates do happen on the fly without any ftp-uploads (just like the current plug-in update function). This new release is so full of features that you might want to take a look at the official WordPress Blog. This screencast sums up all the new blogging-goodness:

Jerry nails it again

I really dig this guy, not just because he’s funny and a good writer – I also learned a great deal from him. And I can only fully endorse this quote from an article about blogging and not selling out:

I get probably 10-20 solicitations a day to write about someone’s product or whatever… If it’s something I am interested in then I write about it. But more than anything I try not to clutter the blog with crap. And when I say crap of course I mean what I think is crap.

Going local with your host

If you live in the US and you run an online business, you probably didn’t choose a European hosting provider – why would you? US Hosts offer cheaper contracts, and they’re just as reliable. And that’s the reason why many Europeans chose US hosters, but that might not be a good idea. NTT Europe just released a new study about the importance of local hosting. And the results are quite surprising: if your server is hosted in another country than the one you’re targeting with your business, you might lose up to 30% of potential visitors! So whether you’re a global player or more of a niche-fiend: don’t forget that your IP always tells Google where your server is located: paying a couple of bucks more might actually pay off, and that goes for bloggers, too.

Going digital this X-Max

Geeks need to pay for Bytes, says Crunchgear – we all got too much brick-and-mortar crap already, and it’s about time to switch from energy-consuming, poison-producing hardware to digital content streams – I fully agree:

I’m saying we don’t need any more crap. We have too much, we bought too much on credit, and we’re destroying the environment and economy with our purchases. This year, vote with your wallet and say “We don’t need a digital disk standard. We don’t need DRM. We value your content and we will pay for it, but on our terms.” As I see it, buying digital — ideally from non-DRM sources — fulfills the promise of the digital life cycle.

Video of the week

Ever felt like jumping from a really high cliff without a parachute? Well, that’s what those guys do on a regular basis. Yes, they do survive their falls thanks to so-called wingsuits – and their adventures look a lot more spectacular than those of Superman:

That’s it for one of the last weeks of 2008 – I hope you have a great Sunday! Thanks for stopping by, see you next week.

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