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49% of the world’s top 100 blogs are using WordPress

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The article also has an informative list of what each of the top sites is actually running on – sadly TheWayoftheWeb just missed out on making the list, but for the record, I’ve been using self-hosted WordPress for a number of years now for pretty much all my sites (I do have one or two on both Blogger and Tumblr).

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #145

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This new possibility was driven by a few powerful technologies: easy free/open source blogging technology (mainly WordPress ), RSS - which enabled readers of blogs to get alerts when there was a new post, and outgoing links (from one blog to another), and 'pingbacks.' andraz tori blog. ars technica. bitcurrent. complete web monitoring.

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