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75 sites was accepted into 9rules Round 7, a surprisingly low number perhaps. I'm a bit curious why that is, and although the blog post tells me that a lot of sites were too young, or had focus issues, or whatever, I'm still curious to know how many that actually applied. How about it, 9rulers, what's the acceptance ratio? Full list in the blog post. Possibly Related Posts9rules Getting Ready for Round 7Instablogs Club LaunchesWeblogs Inc blogs suffer major outage

A few days ago, rap mogul "Diddy" shared his thoughts on high gas prices with the world through a video "blog" posted at Youtube.

DENVER, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- (CEDIA Booth #600) Sony today unveiled the wireless VAIO(R) CP1 Wi-Fi photo frame, making it easier than ever to share digital images as well as receive news and stream internet radio in real-time. Utilizing built-in Wi-Fi

This is good news for Mac users being pissed off that Google Chrome is Windows only for now. Mike Pinkerton is the main man (and a Google employee, says Venturebeat) behind the excellent non-bloated Gecko-based Camino web browser for OS X. Gecko being the rendering engine used by Firefox as well, while Chrome uses Webkit, of Safari fame. Pinkerton said this on his personal blog: Two things opened up for me today. First, I'm allowed to talk about my project at Google. Second, it once again involves working directly with the open source community, something I've really enjoyed over the last ten years with Mozilla. I'm talking about the public release of the Chromium project and Google Chrome. This is good news, as anyone who've tried out Camino can understand. Users of said browser needn't worry though: How does this affect Camino? In the short term, it doesn't at all. Plans for Camino 2.0 based on the Gecko 1.9 are underway and unchanged. I have some super-reviews to do for smorgan tom

A career in IT is not as bad as it seems 'I did a straw poll of young people moving into both university and sixth form education recently to see how many planned or would consider a career in IT. The results were predictable none of them,' writes Martin

Storm clouds hang over UK Back in June on this blog, I asked the question whether we were experiencing a calm before the storm, as the effects of the credit crunch, rising fuel and utility prices had yet to be seen in any insolvency stats. Like the

WordPress.com, Automattic's hosted version of WordPress, just recently passed a whopping 4 million blogs, as the screenshot above shows. That is some impressive number! I do wonder how many of these are active, and how many are spam? Perhaps the folks over at WordPress.com will touch that in the inevitable blog post announcing breaking 4M, we'll see. Possibly Related PostsWordPress.com Support Goes 24/7WordPress 2.6.1 is Out Now, Update if You WantWordCamp 2008 Coverage

Recruiting the best potential candidates to interview; Interviewing thoroughly, consistently, with the goal of hiring only A-Players. Let?s talk about how to keep your best ones, your best employees and colleagues. These are your Best Ones. Your

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All this attention is being devoted to Alaska, so I thought I should do my own evaluation. Note in advance that politicians don't usually make these lists, they're not "favorite" enough for me. And enough about her for now anyway. 1. Novel, set in: Jack