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New York Times: Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter

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"Lee Rainie, director of the Internet and American Life Project, says that blogging is not so much dying as shifting with the times. Entrepreneurs have taken some of the features popularized by blogging and weaved them into other kinds of services. ... The blurring of lines is readily apparent among users of Tumblr. Although Tumblr calls itself a blogging service, many of its users are unaware of the description and do not consider themselves bloggers — raising the possibility that the decline in blogging by the younger generation is merely a semantic issue."

Hacks/Hackers: MIT project looking for WordPress users to beta test data visualization tools

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"An MIT research project is looking for beta testers for its Knight News Challenge proposal for a WordPress data visualization plugin. Sign up on their blog. As Professor David Karger writes, his team has created a WordPress plugin called Datapress that lets folks WYSIWYG author interactive visualizations of any data without any programming."

Hacks/Hackers: MIT project looking for WordPress users to beta test data visualization tools

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"An MIT research project is looking for beta testers for its Knight News Challenge proposal for a WordPress data visualization plugin. Sign up on their blog. As Professor David Karger writes, his team has created a WordPress plugin called Datapress that lets folks WYSIWYG author interactive visualizations of any data without any programming."

Journalism.co.uk: Guardian launches WordPress plugin allowing bloggers to republish its content

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"The Guardian has launched a new tool to allow bloggers to republish its articles free of charge. The Guardian News Feed plugin works with blogging system WordPress and will allow users to search for and embed whole Guardian articles on their own sites. Adverts will be embedded within the Guardian blog posts hosted on other sites to build a global ad network."

Google News Blog: Bringing Living Stories to WordPress

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"For the last few months we’ve been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we’re releasing a Living Stories plugin and theme for WordPress. Now anyone who publishes through WordPress can use the plugin to organize coverage of an ongoing event on a single dynamic page."

Press Gazette: Wolverhampton’s Express & Star relaunches website

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By the way, it's still built in Wordpress. Who says you need a big expensive CMS: "Express & Star’s owner, Midland News Association, has revamped the site design, enlarging photographs to highlight the work of its photographers and simplifying the page layout - including improving navigation - to make the site more "user-friendly"."