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No.oneslistening made a good WordPress theme called Kiwi. By looking at the description they have on their site, I say this could be the first WP theme after K2 that actually giving its users more than just a good look. I hope it can be developed more (it’s still in beta) to match its tagline [...]

Blog Bridge: the ultimate info-junkie system. “So you are a real info-junkie – you need to scan through much more information than others. You probably are subscribing to hundreds of information feeds – blogs, data feeds, news feeds, etc.” Yup, that is me. I will try this later and compare it with other feed aggregator. [...]

Attack of the Blogs is the title of an article over at Forbes (it sounds like one of the episode of Star Wars). For me the title is so tendencious and the content was even more. The content is too generalizing and you have to subscribe to be able to read it. I don’t like [...]

ME “Liz” Strauss from Successful Blog wrote about what you should consider before putting a link on your post. It’s all about doing the best for your (my) readers. So yes, this is especially a good reminder for me who can put lots of links in a day (including this one). One particularly intriguing point [...]

Now, what would a product marketing manager do to promote a product? How about writing an entry on a blog describing how easy to use it is with an interesting example that most people familiar with. That is Beth Campbell, Google product marketing manager writing an entry about how easily it is to compile pictures [...]

In Indonesia, I often hear this *myth* “I choose PC over Mac because most games are compatible with PC, not Mac”. Now, will they consider switching to Mac if they see the games list for Mac? I see some of the games that I’m familiar with but here’s some that I have actually played. The [...]

In a presentation at Redmond Campus *someone* told Microsoft to fire Robert Scoble. That is to fire *the* famous Microsoft geek blogger. I think it’s all about why Microsoft would want to pay someone like Scoble just to criticize them. Well, is it true? No, he is doing something more than just that. Most of [...]

If a son decided to start a blog, the father announced it on his blog then the mother gave advices. This is the story of the Scoble family. “7- I hope that you continue to ask questions and keep alive your curiosity and take us along in your journey.” Well, I’m not her son, but [...]

Blogebrity interviewed Matt about him leaving CNET, WordPress dot org and com, jazz, and Akismet. ” [...] WordPress is definitely the main focus [...] The dot-org needs some lovin’, we’ve been working for the past few months on a redesign that I’ve started coding up this week, it’ll integrate the different community elements of the [...]

An advertising on Detik Publishing says that JogjaCamp is launching jProfile, a CMS for making company websites. I say if there is a free open-source CMS like WordPress, why should we spent more money? It even still use HTML 4.01 and table. I think their advantages are their service and support. Come on people, [...]