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Since few months, I’ve been hearing lot of horror stories regarding the security compromises that bloggers have to deal with. It’s open source nature, what has been the boon for WordPress, is now standing against it (For Hardcore Open-source lovers – I am in favor of Open-source all the way and that statement of mine should not be taken as personal attack). There have been many blogs that weren’t using the latest version of WordPress are now infected with some sort of worm or some hacker gets access to the web server and misuses your precious resources. There are cases where they even harm the website by effecting its search engine rankings.

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In the earlier versions of WordPress, the only way to change it’s behavior was to change the core files of WordPress. That was never considered as safe and was never simple for those programers who didn’t have much experience with PHP/MySql. However, with newer versions, WordPress started supporting both plugins & themes and with that the need to play around with the core files diminished.

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Around six month back, I wrote a blog post “What you need to learn from Valleywag’s blogger?” and I guess, history has repeated itself. This time, Andrew Keen has replaced Paul Boutin but the theory remains the same i.e. “blogs are dead“. Yawn!! Yawn!!

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When the world is talking about leaked iPhone 3.0 beta 2 and praising it all over, I’ve been pretty unfortunate enough to not own it till this time and probably I should blame Indian mobile telcos for the same. I understand that iPhone’s pricing is pretty ridiculous in India, however I would go for it if Indian Telcos provide an unlimited 3g facility (we can expect that they’ll launch 3G soon in India) with it. My craving for having an iPhone increased when Abhishek bought it and was flaunting it in WordCamp India, that Blog Design Studio co-organized in Feburary.

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button250x250-drawing2.gifWPWebHost has been creating waves from last few days and I’ve noticed their name quite often than normal and that indeed is a good news as it shows that the company is interested in marketing their product well. Although, it’ll be interesting to see if their support (wordpress centric) will be as good as they claim.


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Network Box, a security company has released a whitepaper or you can call it a small guide which tells you some of the common things one should do, in order to ensure that your blog doesn’t become one of the blog’s which got hacked. Once a blog gets hacked, it can be used to serve all sort of content and ultimately can harm the blog’s reputation.

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Comscore has released the list of Top 50 web properties and Jeff Chandler was quick to find this out that WordPress ranked at 33rd position out of those 50 web properties. Indeed this interesting and I guess that’s what Paul Boutin should be sent this report who thinks that blogging is so 2004.

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