Top 50k blogs had $500 million in 2006 Revenue: TechCrunch has an interesting link to a study performed by a couple University of Texas Ph.D students in association with Chitika. The study claims that the top 50,000 blogs made somewhere near the astronomical total of $500 million in revenue in the 2006 fiscal year. The linked PDF is very short and the double exponential model that was used to fit (model) the values looks sloppy enough in the short description that it would not stand up well to a peer review. Chitika’s presence and promotion via this study is also quite evident. Frankly, I am surprised that The University of Chicago has allowed their name to be publicly associated with this study considering their heritage and authority in the statistics and economics educational disciplines [EDIT] I stand corrected, the study is from the University of Texas. Thanks AJay in the […]
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Akismet has protected your site from 2,000,396 spam comments. WeblogToolsCollection.com also reached the 10,000 comments milestone a couple of weeks ago. So, for comparison’s sake, at present there are 10,577 comments on this blog. Huzzah! [EDIT] I forgot to ask, how is Akismet treating you?
[Continue Reading...]Today is the last day of the WordPress Plugin Competition. So today is the last day for you to submit plugins to the competition. If you were planning on submitting a plugin, please email the final version of the code to mark at wltc dot net. I must receive your code by the end of today for your plugin to be eligible as an entry into the competition. If you, as a plugin user, have not checked out the competition entries and tried out some of the incredible plugins, head over there right away. Once you have downloaded and used the plugins, make sure you come back to the competition and rate the plugins that you have used. Your ratings will go a long way in helping us determine the best entries into the competition. Thanks again to all the sponsors and donors that have made this competition a reality.
[Continue Reading...]ACMS is a 3-column theme designed to turned WordPress into a Content Management System. Blog Oh Blog is a 3-column, widget-ready theme with minimal design. Hope in Dark is a 2-column, widget- and adsense-ready theme with orange and black colors. Moo-Point is a 2-column, widget-ready theme built on the Sandbox theme. Recycled Canvas is a 2-column, experimental WordPress theme designed to gather and share mouseclick data via a specialized plugin for academic research in how people share designs, use blogs, and a variety of other purposes.
[Continue Reading...]Add to Facebook adds a link to the bottom of each post and page on your blog with the text “Share on Facebook”. Drop-down Post List allows you to easily display drop-down boxes containing the posts for specified categories. TwitterPress lets you display your Twitter friends on your blog, shows latest updates, and automatically sends a Tweet when you post a new entry. Current version of this plugin is a preview version. WordTwit automatically generates a twitter status update for every post published.
[Continue Reading...]Gangway is a 3-column theme designed for group or team blogs. SandPress is a 3-column, minimal theme built on the Sandbox theme for the Sandbox competition. Upstart Blogger Takimata is another minimalist theme from the Sandbox competition. WPNJ01 is a 3-column, widget-ready theme that supports widgets for both the sidebar and footer.
[Continue Reading...]Add to Google enables a user to add the small “Add to Google” widget button on a WordPress blog, without editing the source code by hand. Crossroads interfaces with flickr and lightbox, adding thumbnails and flickr photo comments to your blog entries. Fullscreen 1.0 for WP-Super-Edit is a plugin for WP Super Edit. By using it, you can enlarge your TinyMCE editor to fit the full screen of the browser, and toggle between those two views. Monsters Editor 1.0 for WP-Super-Edit brings the magic of Fckeditor back to TinyMCE. Peter’s Anti-spam Image generates random anti-spam images instead of custom anti-spam images. SemGeshiCodeFix presents clear, highlighted code on your blog and even works in comments. Simple Download Counter counts how many times a file is being downloaded from your wordpress blog and, if you like, lets you display the total number of downloads on its pages. WP-Backlinks will trade backlinks via […]
[Continue Reading...]Bogart is a 3-column, widget theme with a very simple look and a clean style. Isolated is a slick little single-column theme that uses Mootools Accordian for the posts and GD image support for the titles. Minimal is a 2-column, widget-ready theme that allows you to use a class=”left” or class=”right” to float images in your posts. Styled is a 2-column theme based on K2 featuring a micro-header and clear-cut styling.
[Continue Reading...]I am proud to announce the beta version of WordPress Jobs. The site is intended to be used as the primary location for employers looking for professional WordPress help to post their needs and for WordPress professionals to find, apply for and obtain jobs in WordPress. We have focussed on aesthetics, ease of use and consolidation of resources in developing WordPress Jobs. Feeds are available for every job category to make it easy for job seekers to find and apply for the right jobs as quickly as possible. We will also advertise jobs from WordPress Jobs on weblogtoolscollection to increase exposure. Job categories include WordPress Design Positions, WordPress Programmer Positions, WordPress Blogger Positions and General Positions divided into full time and project job types. Once posted, jobs should appear on the main listing within 24 hours and will continue to be listed on the site for a period of 21 […]
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