Matt in Newsweek: This article has been regurgitated in a bunch of publications, the latest of which is in a column in Newsweek. “It’s the No. 1 problem for search engines,” says Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, a blog-software service. … commenting on Splogs.

If you want to make your Blog temporarily unavailable (scheduled maintenance for example) you have two very simple and efficient ways : a plugin, or a theme.

Hyperthreading hurts server performance: With both SQL Server and Citrix Terminal Server installations, HT-enabled motherboards show markedly degraded performance under heavy load Who would have thought? 😉

WP Hack: Server Load Graphic Show a small graphic with the server load. Requires GD.

WP Theme: WheatGrass and Sapphire: Nicely positioned, readable, pleasing to the eye and sobre two column themes for WordPress. Via Email.

Tim Yang and Ozh have released Problogger Clean, a clean 3 columns theme with original features mostly aimed towards Adsense. Options are managed from an admin panel (using WordPress Theme Toolkit) which gives the theme a lot of functionalities and customization possibilities. The theme comes with built-in ads, so you won’t have a hard time trying to implement ads in a theme that was not designed for it. Its feature I like best : “Adsense Click Safety“, which prevents any click you could make on your own ads to be recorded, therefore to be counted as fraudulent. Read more : Tim’s announcement, Ozh’s announcement.

Google Analytics Swings at Measure Map Does ANYONE have Google Analytics working yet? Anyone?

The Ten Evilest and Mostly Unethical Blogging Hacks: As a follow up to the Joi Ito snafu, Jack of All Blogs wants bloggers to hack a bunch of stuff to make themeselves popular. The Chitika thing is running out of steam (especially since Chitika seems to have dried up of real revenue). Try it out for yourself here.