On Thursday, Wordpress.org released Wordpress 2.8.1 for bloggers who enjoy hosting their own blogs.
As for blogging platforms, you simply can’t beat Wordpress. It’s free and search engines absolutely love it.
WordPress 2.8.1 fixes several known bugs and enhances security for plugin administration pages. What else is new in Wordpress 2.8.1?

Certain themes were calling get_categories() [...]

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PollDaddy, the website that lets bloggers create interactive polls and surveys with which their readers can interact, has just released some astounding figures.
The company says that it now serves 430 million poll impressions per month, giving it a Quantcast rank equivialent to the 22nd most visited website in the entire world.
PollDaddy was acquired [...]

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Here’s one from the “Why Didn’t I Think of That?” department.
A new blog called Cute Things Falling Asleep is getting a lot of attention these days.  The concept?  Simple.  Find something cute, that also happens to be falling asleep, and film it.
It’s really a collection of funny kid and animal videos that happen to fall [...]

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Have you been thinking about starting a blog, but you find it overwhelming to think about promoting it, monetizing it, and managing it?
Luckily, Seekopia is here for you.  Seekopia, currently in beta, is a new blogging network that not only removes some of the hassle of running and managing a blog, but they also make [...]

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Over on his blog, Matt Cutts just posted a copy of the slideshow he used to give his talk at WordCamp San Francisco 2009.
If you’re thinking that this is just another bunch of cryptic mumbo-jumbo, think again.  While it’s not the “Google Algorithm for Dummies,” it very well could be.
There are some genuine gems dropped [...]

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Have you noticed the new “Listen” buttons under the post titles here on Blippitt?  We’ve just turned the blog into a podcast using Odiogo.
That’s right, you can now turn your blog into a living, breathing podcast.
Odiogo takes your RSS feed and turns it into audio content.  The results are surprisingly good.  This is not some [...]

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Last week, we talked about the world’s oldest Twitter user.  Now, we’ve learned that the world’s oldest blogger died on Wednesday.
Maria Amelia Lopez was a Spanish grandmother who became an Internet sensation after dubbing herself the “world’s oldest blogger.”  She was 97 years old.
Ms. Lopez started blogging from her home in Galicia in 2007.  Immediately, [...]

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It seems like everyone under the sun has their own blog these days. How can you tell which ones are credible and which ones aren’t?
Researchers at the Austria-based Know-Center are developing a system that will study the language used on blogs in order to rank them as highly credible, having average credibility, or “little [...]

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AdAge reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is another step closer to a new policy that start regulating viral marketing and weblogs.
The government wants to have its hands in everything these days, and apparently the goal is to distinguish so called “paid posts” on blogs from those that are not paid advertisements of ay [...]

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The Phoenix police are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore.
Several officers from the Phoenix, AZ police department stormed the home of a blogger who has been criticizing their work.
Jeff Pataky, a 41-year-old software engineer who runs the blog Bad Phoenix Cops, claims that the officers took three computers, routers, hard [...]

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