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StudioPress Merges Into Copyblogger Media LLC

Found out late last week that StudioPress along with several other companies merged together to form Copyblogger Media LLC, which is a new consolidated company led by Copyblogger founder, Brian Clark. Asides from themes and plugins, this new company will offer online education and a suite of software tools for WordPress. Here’s a few excerpts [...]

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Recruit.Net Launch Philippines Job Search Engine

Recruit.net is a network of multilingual job search engines that provide job listings in countries like Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, UK, USA and Vietnam. It is operated by Recruit.net Ltd, a Hong Kong-based company. Recruit.net provide job hunters free and easy access to millions of job listings from [...]

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The WordPress Foundation

The WordPress Foundation was officially announced yesterday with the launch of its official website. Started by Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded to help and support Open Source. I found out about it late yesterday when Matt announced it on his blog. To get a better understanding of the WordPress Foundation, [...]

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Ben Southall Wins Best Job In The World

If you remember earlier this year, the state of Queensland, Australia announced that they are looking for candidates to apply for the job as the caretaker of the Great Barrier Reef islands. Dubbed as the “Best Job in the World“, the person chosen to be the “island caretaker” was required to do the following: lazing [...]

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A Bad Round of Golf

I’m taking another break from regular blogging to share about something that recently happened in the Philippines. This incident happened the day after Christmas at the Valley Golf and Country Club in Antipolo City and involves Mayor Nasser Pangandaman, Jr. of Masui City, Lanao Del Sur, his bodyguards and his father Nasser Pangandaman Sr., who [...]

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Student Uses Twitter To Get Out Of Jail

Was checking my mail earlier morning when this headline from CNN caught my attention: "Freed man now uses Twitter to help friend". Here's a short summary and some excerpts from the article that I read from CNN. James Karl Buck James Karl Buck, an American student working on a photography project in Egypt for his master's thesis was arrested together with his interpreter while taking photographs of local anti-government protests over low wages and rising food prices. He was able to get out of jail with the help of Twitter. James Karl Buck was released from a Mahalla jail after sending a one-word blog post from his cell phone through the Twitter Web site. The message -- "Arrested" -- alerted all of his friends on the site of his detention. When his college found out about the situation, they hired a lawyer who then got him out of prison. Now that he's a free man, Buck is using his Twitter network (611 followers as of writing) to help free his friend Mohammed Maree.

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CNN Producer Fired Because of Personal Blog

Some of you might have read of this already but for those who haven't heard or read of this story, a CNN producer was recently fired because of something he posted on his personal blog. What exactly did he do/write to get fired? Here's the exact paragraph from his personal blog named Deus Ex Malcontent that CNN cited as a violation: I wake up every morning baffled as to why America hasn’t deported George Bush and Dick Cheney, Hollywood hasn’t stopped trying to convince me that Sarah Jessica Parker is attractive, gullible soccer moms haven’t realized that they share absolutely no kinship with Oprah, and Fox canceled Firefly. The employee's name is Chez Pazienza, Emmy Award winner and former producer of CNN's morning show American Morning. Apparently, CNN's employee handbook states that any writing done for a "non-CNN outlet" was prohibited or has to go through CNN's network standards and practices department for approval. This was something that Chez wasn't aware of when he started his blog and only knew about it a month earlier when he accidentally came across an employee handbook in someone else's desk. After talking with his boss and a HR representative about this matter, twenty four hours later he was fired. Chez wrote a long blog post in regards to this issue. Below are some excerpts from the said post. I hadn't seen a pertinent rule and never signed any agreement stipulating that I wouldn't write on my own time. I hadn't divulged my place of work and wasn't writing about what went on at the office. The views expressed on my blog, Deus Ex Malcontent, were mine and mine alone. I represented no one but myself, and I didn't make a dime doing it. I let them know exactly what I had thought when I read the rule, namely that it was staggeringly vague and couldn't possibly apply to something as innocuous as a blog.

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WordPress: Best Open Source Social Networking CMS

WordPress just won the Best Open Source Social Networking CMS Award in the recent 2007 Open Source CMS Awards sponsored by Packt. Packt is pleased to reveal that WordPress is the first winner of the 2007 Open Source CMS Award, picking up the best Open Source Social Networking Content Management System. In a very close [...]

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Weekend Roundup #6

It’s a weekend again and you know what that means, another weekend roundup! Enjoy! Good news for my kababayans (countrymen), PayPal Philippines now has full features. This means that aside from sending money capabilities and the new withdrawal features, registered members in the Philippines and Indonesia can now receive funds from 90 markets and 17 [...]

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Undercover Reporter Spotted @ DEF CON 2007

If you don’t know what DEF CON is, it’s the world’s largest annual hacker convention, held every year in Las Vegas, Nevada. Undercover reporter Michelle Madigan, who also happens to be an associate producer for NBC Dateline, tried to sneak in to DEF CON 2007 with a hidden pin-hole camera. She was trying to get [...]

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Warning to WordPress & Joomla Theme Users

Found this article from Derek Punsalan’s blog 5ThirtyOne. Templates Browser dot com is collecting WordPress & Joomla public themes and modifying them by inserting hidden spam or malware links that can compromise the end user then re-distributing it in their site. These spam and malware links are inserted in a functions.php file that comes with [...]

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