Blog of Andrey Vystavkin (aka jujav4ik) has moved to a new domain - j4vk.com. He had some troubles with the old hosting, as well as with his old name, so in a rather drastic move all that was changed. Those of you who read his blog, don’t forget to update your RSS feeds. Everyone else - help your fellow blogger, post a link to his new site for a while, so that he regains his PageRank score.
We have reported recently that much awaited version of WordPress 2.1 has been released. Do you know how popular it is? Well, it’s hard to tell precisely, but this post at Matt’s blog gives a rough idea:
Version 2.1 of WordPress has been downloaded an average of 19,483 times a day since it was released.
Two weeks by almost 20,000 downloads a day is about 300,000 downloads. Not bad, not bad at all. Congratulations to WordPress development team!
Scrivs asks an interesting question over at Wisdump:
In this world of digital media why in the hell would people create press releases and push them on their own blogs?
There are a few insightful comments. Check them out.
What do you think?
Forrester Research has attempted to measure the effect of corporate blogging in units that any profit-oriented business understands - US Dollars ($). It appears that corporate blogging pays off.
In 2006, the company’s FastLane blog delivered an estimated $410,470 worth of customer insight and marketing at an approximate cost of $255,675 — a return on investment of 67% — according to a newly released report from Forrester Research.
Compare that to 2005, when GM’s blog generated an estimated $578,374 worth of information and publicity at an approximate cost of $291,196. That’s a 99% return on investment.
Read the full article at Yahoo!
Found via RSS blog.
Cyprus Mail newspaper has recently published an article by Leo Leonidou titled “Out in the blogosphere“.
The article has a number of mistakes and misinterpretations. For example, it claims that there are “around 25 Cyprus-based blogs currently in operation”. I do agree that blogging is very young in Cyprus. But there are much more than 25 blogs. Way more. There are many Cypriot, Greek, British, Russian, and English bloggers. They write on a variety of subjects and in a number of languages.
I have sent an email to Mr.Leo Leonidou as well as to Editor in Chief and Technical Editor of Cyprus Mail, pointing out the problems with the article. I have also offered my technical expertise, as well as a draft of another article about blogging. I have no idea if it will get published, or if they have even received it. I’ll post a follow-up later.