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You might remember us (me, mostly) giving Brian Gardner a hard time about his decisions regarding the Revolution Theme, a successful premium WordPress theme, and his move to Revolution Two. Older customers got in the middle, and we talked about that in an interview. Well, now it seems as if WooThemes is doing something similar. In a late "we're 1 year old" birthday post, they're offering The Original Premium News Theme for free, which was the first premium WordPress theme released by Adii, one of the people behind the WooThemes project. So won't the people that paid money for that particular theme be a bit pissed off that now thousands of blogs might use it? I asked Adii that question, and had an interesting discussion about the matter in fact. This is his statement regarding releasing The Original Premium News Theme: We don't believe that releasing a year old theme for free infringes on our users' rights, as they have not only bought a theme from us, but also all the goodies that goe

I haven't read or seen anything that would point to Jaiku, the Finnish microblogging service that Google bought, suddenly growing like crazy, but maybe I've just missed it. Anyway, the servers have been down for almost 30 minutes now, alternating with "the server's are too busy" messages, and the not so pretty "502 Bad Gateway" error. Most likely they'll be back up soon. Either way, is this as sign of things to come? If Jaiku should take off, would that mean that they'd go through the same downtime period as Twitter did? They really shouldn't have to, especially if they would get integrated in the Google App engine as has been reported previously, although that one's been under some fire recently as well. All that aside, fact remains. Jaiku is still down, and we're yet to see it become a serious threat to Twitter. Possibly Related PostsJaiku Joins the Google Cloud?Twhirl Adds Laconica Support, One of ManyJaiku is Back, Not in Google Apps Engine

Hazel Blears addresses delegates at the Labour party conference in Manchester in September Related Articles Search Search Go Independent.co.uk Web Bookmark & Share Why are we asking this now? Communities Minister Hazel Blears made a speech to the

Googles exit from their proposed search advertising deal isnt only embarrassing. It eliminates one of Yahoos key methods for creating value outside the clutches of Microsoft. Yahoo is back in play as a takeover target, but at a lower price. Googles use

Last week we asked for your best captions to the picture at left. In exchange, we offered a smart lookin' Dumb as a Blog T-shirt. And the winner is... Hello God? If you can hear me I just wanted to say I find my job here at the Telephone Company

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A big part of [Obama's success] was tapping into popular culture beyond the news media, as he connected with audiences on latenight talkshows, 'Entertainment Tonight' and 'Access Hollywood' and, before his campaign even began, 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.'

Duncan Riley, the founder of the Blog Herald, continues to share his struggles with The Inquisitr. The site is no 6 months old, which means it is getting really interesting to see how it fares. This from the wrap-up: I say this every month but it still holds true: we're not quite there yet, but the outlook is rosy. The notion that it takes 6-9 months to establish a blog would appear to be holding true: we continue to improve in content, engagement and page views. Check out the full post on Duncan's blog. Possibly Related PostsDuncan Riley reflects on three months of The InquisitrEngadget Scored 14 Million Pageviews on the Apple Notebook Event Crikey Blogs to Bring Blogging to the Frontlines in Australia

Kenyan-born WA journalist and news presenter Deborah Kennedy reflects upon the election of America?s first black president. I don?t believe that skin colour should ever be an issue, but I?m realistic enough to accept that, often, it is. Race has

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