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Lots of WordPress News today – it seems that the free hosted blog platform, WordPress.com has gone live and is now available for all bloggers and not just those invited into the system. Sign Up here

Ooooh! WordPress 2.0 is in Beta!

Robert writes a blog tip on how to ask him for a link in his post – A PR tip, don’t beg for links: ‘Never beg a blogger for links. Say, instead, “here’s something you might find interesting.”’ Here’s a few other tips when you’re emailing other bloggers with links. ...more

Ian McKenzie has a post that examines a number of different Desktop Blogging Clients – he manages seven blogs with Blogger, WordPress, MovableType and Thingamablog and is looking for a client with the following features: The ability to post to multiple blog clients and handle multiple accounts. Another important feature ...more

It’s been interesting to watch the launch of OSM (Open Source Media), formally Pajamas Media, this past week. As with the launch of any new blogging network (of sorts) there is always a mix of critique, hype, spin and debate. One of the debates that I’m seeing more and more ...more

Adsense has just gone live with a new feature to allow ALL Adsense publishers to add an ‘advertise on this site’ link to their Google ads. This is a feature that they’ve been testing with a small number of publisher for a while but have just announced on their blog ...more

Amazon have started beta testing a new feature with their affiliates that is something between Chitika’s eMiniMalls and Vibrant Media’s Intellitxt. It’s called Amazon Product Previews. The feature allows publishers to add some javascript code to the bottom of their pages that makes any text links to Amazon products that ...more

Jim over at Revnews has a post talking about a new product, Botsense, that is currently in beta that is for stopping. It sounds like an interesting product that unfortunately will be needed more and more with the way things are going with content theft these days. Has anyone used ...more

Peter has been digging around the Feedster Top 500 list (a list of ‘top blogs’ that was going to be updated monthly but hasn’t changed since August) again and has an interesting statistic – 12.2% Of the List have RSS Advertising in their feeds. This is in contrast to the ...more