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There’s a new hosted blog solution in town, and it’s creating quite a bit of buzz. It’s called Squarespace, and while they don’t have a free option (they have a free trial, but for any ongoing blog there is a cost), they do have quite a following online. Kevin Rose has his blog hosted there, and Leo Laporte is in the process of moving over to them.

It looks like a really nice option for complex looking sites that are actually easy to build using their software. I’m keeping an eye on this one.

Wordpress 2.7, codename Coltrane, is now official. You can download it from the normal places, and below is a video introducing the various new bits. Enjoy!

I’ve been invited to speak at Online Information in London, UK, on the topic of…..drumroll….Library Blogging! I’ve titled my talk “Beyond Blogging: the future of the format” and my goal will be to talk about where blogging is going in general over the next couple of years.

I’ll post the talk up here as soon as I get it done! Still working feverishly.

Wordpress 2.7 is being developed even as I type, and the list of possible additions/changes is long. Lots of great stuff coming from the WP camp.

Wordpress 2.6 was just released…if you’re interested in the details, here’s a video overview:

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The book really exists! After so long, it’s amazing to finally hold one in my hands. It looks great, and will hopefully be available at bookstores very soon!

More importantly, it should be at ALA Annual 2008! As soon as I find out which booth Linworth Publishing is, I’ll post it up!

EDIT: Linworth Publishing will be at booth #2553 at ALA Annual, with Library Blogging in hand.

For those that use Wordpress, just a note about the upcoming 2.5 release: it rocks on toast. I’ve been using the Release Candidate 1 for WP2.5 for a week or so now, and the improvements in the admin interface are enormous. Better organization, more ajax interaction, just much, much smoother. Every time I’ve gone to do something in the last week I’ve been surprised at the ease.

This isn’t to say that you won’t have to update your plugins, as always…but WP2.5 finally has one-click automagic updating of plugins. This isn’t quite ready for primetime, but it’s very close.

I haven’t dug into the hardcore coding changes yet, but if the things I have noticed are indicative of the things I haven’t yet, I’m really looking forward to this release.

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Here is a tag cloud for Library Blogging, the upcoming book from myself and Karen Coombs…this is the top 100 terms, ignoring common English words. If you’re wondering what the book is about, here’s a good sampling: