Congrats to Dave, whose blog turns 8 today.

Matt, leading developer of an open-source project WordPress, publishes a response to the recent noise about wordpress.org spamming Google with more than 100000 articles.

Matt, we don’t care about all this. We just love WordPress

Yahoo has acquired Flickr and Ludicorp (via Nick Bradbury)

Congratulations to the winners of Business Blogging Awards 2005! Three of them (Best Law Blog, Best Blog About Small Business, Best PR Blog) plus Chris Pirillo received BlogJet as their prize.

Wonder why “plus Chris”, if BlogJet was not in the list of prizes for “The Chris Pirillo Award (For Shameless Self Promotion)”? Hell, it’s a shameless self promotion – because I want him to write a word about BlogJet in his blog

Congratulations to the winners of Indibloggies 2004. Three of them received their copies of BlogJet as prizes yesterday.

Google implemented the way to prevent comments from spamming. Yahoo! and MSN followed.

Terry Whalin has a great article “Chase Better Not New”:

…I want to work smarter and more effective. Some times, that means using a proven tool to become better. For example, I’m using BlogJet to write this post to my blog. It’s a proven tool which has been around and gives me flexibility to not write my post online…

Read it here.

Six Apart, makers of Movable Type and TypePad, bought LiveJournal. Great news, guys. I hope that they will enhance LiveJournal’s support for blogging APIs.

Winners of the Weblog Awards 2005 in the following categories:

• Best photography of a weblog
• Best computers or technology weblog
• Best writing of a weblog

will receive a copy of BlogJet. Go nominate!

As I mentioned in the previous post, we’re contributing to the Weblog Awards for the second year.

BlogJet sponsors IndiBlog Awards: winners of IndiBlog of the year, IndiBlog with the best tagline and Best IndiPhotoBlog will receive a copy of BlogJet.

With this Awards, I continue my support for different competitions among bloggers – the first one was Weblog Awards 2004 last year.

The sexiest users of BlogJet – http://girl2.com/ 

Microsoft announced the launch of their own free hosted blogging service – MSN Spaces. They do not offer API at this moment, so you can’t use BlogJet to post to Spaces.

Traditional PR is dead,  long live DIY PR: http://www.streamlinewebco.com/blog/_archives/2004/8/25/129292.html

Which technology is better for your business? Tris Hussey has an answer: 

“I think all three are important and serve different purpose and are an excellent example of how the three web technologies co-exist extremely well.”

Read: http://www.blogcatalyst.com/blog/_archives/2004/8/25/129541.html

By the way, we now has a Wiki—another great web technology.

Radiant Marketing Group Blog has a good article about the future of blogging in two parts: part 1, part 2.