Upgrade to WordPress 2.3.1

If this is here, then my upgrade to the latest version of WordPress and a new theme won’t have been a complete disaster. If it isn’t here, then let’s keep it to ourselves, eh?

The newest thing is native support for tags, as well as cat­egories. Everything is mis­cel­laneous, of course (check this fant­astic video 

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Blogging Asia

Blogging Asia: A Windows Live Report shows that blogging is already a sig­ni­ficant force in Asia. Haven’t been able to find the original report online, but I’ve been able to piece together the fol­lowing from here, here and here.

46% of the online pop­u­la­tion in Asia have a blog (compared to just 8% of US

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A Better Impression

The UK’s best-​​​​known website auditing firm, ABCe, will move to meas­uring unique users instead of page impres­sions as its man­datory meas­ure­ment metric. Page impres­sions have come under fire as a metric for several reasons, not least the ability to fake results by split­ting a story over several pages.

This is good news for pro­fes­sional blogs: Because

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More Word of Mouth

Opening the WoM Communications con­fer­ence, Steve Barton of Keevil Barton Kershaw [now defunct] talked about the reasons word of mouth matters more than ever. He cited research that states we receive over 3000 messages a day about products and services (source unknown, but I can believe it. Here is some info). We’re not able to

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What I Learned About Word of Mouth

Thanks to Simon from Green for sorting me out a press pass to Word of Mouth Communications. A very inter­esting day which I thor­oughly recom­mend the next time it comes around. I’m going to write about three cough… two of the present­a­tions in three … two posts, to keep me stocked up with new material

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A Blog Code of Ethics

Update:

Toulmin was appar­ently quoted out of context in the original story and the BBC has changed their story to show a more balanced opinion.

The Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin thinks blogs should be covered by a vol­un­tary code of practice like that for UK news­pa­pers. The BBC reports that he made the remarks

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