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Back again

It’s pretty difficult to start write again after such pause. My wife and my Son are away for a holidays, so I must found some time to write to my blog. But where to begin. So many thing are happened in the last time.
Ok , I know I begin with the introducing of the My [...]

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Factors of Success in Social (News) Communities

As I think there a only two main factors your success (success of your submissions) depends on. That are the quality of your stories and friendship. Yes only them two and some sub issues its quite simple. Such an statement my appear as vague for you, therefore I’ll try to be more concrete.
High quality stories are known as:

* unique
* unusual
* very actual
* interesting for everybody

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February Statistics

Now we step into March 2008. Here my first visitors statistic for this blog. In February there where 730 unique visitors what means round about 25 visotors a day in average.
Maybe it’s not so much for a professional blogger but it’s OK for an amateur blogger like me. Important is the overal trend which is positiv.

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W-Popularity Plug-In

New plugin is born. I’ve created a new branch from the latest version of famous Popularity Contest Plugin.
While the Popularity Contest Plugin does not support widgets natively, you need to code your templates to show most popular list of post on the Sidebar. My Widgetized Popularity Contest Plugin – short W-Popularity solves that, by providing [...]

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Mark Meta widget with “nofollow”

Due SEO considerations it is not recommended (e.g. by Matt Cutts) to spend precious page rank on links like log-in, register formulars, rss pages and other meta stuff. One thould mark them as nofollow and that is one example where nofollow attribute can be turned in something useful.
Nearly every Worpdress blog would have [...]

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HeadSpace – Meta-Information Plug-in

Headspace2 wordpress Plugin configuration expirience. Headspace2 is well known SEO Plugin.

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Wordpress 2.3.3 fixes XML-RPC bug

Please upgrade your Wordpress blog as sun as possible to the released version 2.3.3, because there are security reasons for it. Further check the content of your posts in the code perspective, because maybe it was changed by some intruders, which have possibly used XML-RCP Bug in the Wordpress version 2.3.2.
… A flaw was [...]

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Category vs Tag

Since Wordpress official introduces tag support categories became strong concurrent, this leads to the question how to deal now with categories and Tags?
I think that tags are very flexible and also somehow naturally to use, you don’t have to think very carefully which should be taken, and which was used before, [...]

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