Category Archives: WordPress

Lots of spam blogs on Blogger

Posted on April 9, 2007 by Toni Schneider

According to a WebMasterWorld study, 75% of blogs on Google’s Blogger are spam and 68% of all sites on the .info domain are spam as well. If true, that’s kind of depressing. Meanwhile, on WordPress.com we continue to shut down … Continue reading →

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More VIPs

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Toni Schneider

If our WordPress.com VIP hosting program is any indication, enterprise blogging is on an upswing. We’ve been getting a lot of interest in this program from corporate bloggers. Some recent VIPs include multiple blogs from CNN, Xerox and Carnival Cruise … Continue reading →

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Digg this

Posted on February 10, 2007 by Toni Schneider

Paul Kedrosky points out that WordPress.com has passed Digg on Alexa’s reach charts. Very cool! And Alexa doesn’t even count all of our traffic, only visits to blogs with wordpress.com in their URL (i.e. it doesn’t count WordPress.com blogs like … Continue reading →

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Internet celebs on WordPress

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Toni Schneider

We just went down the list of the top 25 internet celebrities according to Forbes and found that an impressive 1/3 of them are using WordPress: #1 celebrity LonelyGirl15, Jeff Jarvis, Amanda Congden, Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Jimmy Wales, Merlin … Continue reading →

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Lots of stats

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Toni Schneider

Check it out, we are now publishing lots of WordPress.com stats for anyone who is interested in how many signups, page views, new posts, embeds, etc we’re getting. I’d love to see other blogging services and web sites publish this … Continue reading →

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KnowNow + WP = enterprise blogging

Posted on November 20, 2006 by Toni Schneider

Fortune 500 companies are discovering WordPress. They are figuring out that blogging is a great tool for fostering more open and active collaboration with customers and between employees. This trend was anticipated in several places, including Robert Scoble and Shel … Continue reading →

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Le Monde moves to WordPress

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Toni Schneider

Le Monde just relaunched their blogging services. Their several thousand blogs are now powered by WordPress (they used to be on TypePad). Lots of new WordPress blogs get created every day, but this installation is significant for a number of … Continue reading →

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Calling all WordPress consultants

Posted on October 18, 2006 by Toni Schneider

I get several requests per week from people who are looking for help with WordPress related projects. Things like designing a new blog template, developing a custom plugin, or migrating existing blogs over to WordPress. In response, we’ve started to … Continue reading →

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