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WordCamp 2007 Videos on UHF

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I have had the pleasure of spending some of my time sitting with John “One Man’s Blog, Specialization is for Insects” Pozadzides today. He is the person of the hour, or will be, recording WordCamp 2007.

July 23rd Update: the brilliant Colin Devroe feeling better on day 2 has posted a few videos from WordCamp:

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“Hot sexy photos” Surprises!

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I have been very pleasantly surprised by the strange result of all the people “reading” my post “Sexy Pictures”, “Hot Photos” when I first noticed I added ads. As I result I will get a first check from Google Adsense next month for over $100 to donate to charity!

I previously noticed a small influx of “readers” when I posted e-tst.com Porn Link Spam Blogs, but I did not have any ads on my site at the time.

The last times it was inadvertent, but I guess this time it is what is called search engine bait.

A lot of the “Sexy Pictures”, “Hot Photos” traffic is coming from a search engine called starware, which most sites say is adware/spyware/malware or at the very least difficult to uninstall.

They made funny comments asking for photos, “in our country sexy web sites are filtered please send me a lot of very very hot sexy pictures&films Iam irany.” I only moderated one, because they were off topic.

Of course these visitors don’t stay long as I have no hot, sexy photos or pictures. 60% of my little traffic comes from search engines, 90% of my visitors are first time visiters, 75% of every visit leaves after viewing a single page.

I did not even know that netscape.com still had a search box. I am currently the top result there for “hot sexy photos”. What a strange world.

Thank you for helping humanitarian charities! I will give you an update when I have received the check and made the donation.

Innovation is often a matter of packaging

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[Dale Vile] questioned whether open source could deliver innovation in the way proprietary vendor models had. I would argue innovation is often a matter of packaging – our industry is still in the process of digesting and innovating Xerox PARC’s inventions.Wordpress is innovative because its so flexible and extensible, without having to hack through scripting code. It is a beautiful thing.

Writes James Governor in WordPress: The most innovative open source platform yet? (thanks Mark Ghosh).

I would not say the most innovative. Linux holds that spot for me, Novell and Ubuntu are taking it further. Novell in terms of the product and Ubuntu in its customer care and community.

But there is not another product I would like to be working on more than WordPress. The web is here, and it is also the the future. Countless people contribute to making WordPress an important part of it.

It is the leadership of Matt Mullenweg and community members, refined into a product by his one hand and the community’s, and the plugins, themes and voices of the web which I can’t get enough of!