Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software. In addition, we do custom development so that we can offer features not included in the open source core product (like VideoPress, built-in polls, etc.). Because WordPress.com gets new features implemented as they are developed, we don’t usually talk too much about big version releases. For example, WordPress 2.8 was released recently, but we didn’t announce it here because WordPress.com blogs had already been running the new features (like the new widgets administration panel) before the big open source release occurred.
The open source project is getting started on development of version 2.9, which is expected to launch toward the end of this year. The reason I think it’s worth posting about this here on WordPress.com is that the focus of the 2.9 development is going to be improved media features, and improved media management is one of the most frequently requested things in the support forums, support emails, comments and at WordCamps.
There have been many suggestions for how to improve our media functions, so many that we can’t build all of them at once. For the next couple of days, there is a survey you can take to vote on which media features are the most important to you. This will help us prioritize the development. Are you dying for photo albums? A redesigned uploader? The ability to crop, resize or rotate your images? There are 11 proposed media features listed in the survey for you to rank in order of priority.
Descriptions of each proposed feature are provided at the beginning of the voting survey, so you’ll be sure to know what each what means. Only the first question (pick your top choice) is mandatory. This survey isn’t very long. Question two lets you assign a general high/low priority to each of the 11 feature suggestions, while question 3 asks you to rank the 11 features in order of priority from 1-11. A text box or two allow you to make additional suggestions, and that’s it. The survey is anonymous, and will be open until Friday, July 10, 2009 at 11:59 PM UTC.
Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with great success!
It’s an even more fitting occasion for posting regularly to your blog on the topics that interest you. And maybe the best part is that it starts whenever you want it to! The only objective is to post every day for a month. So why not begin with July? To make it official, sign up here. It’s open to anyone with a blog, anywhere in the world.
The NaBloPoMo team provides a theme for each month, which isn’t mandatory, but is a nice way to gain inspiration that can kick off your daily updates.
Not into that? Then we suggest sticking to the stuff you’ve been blogging about all along — the things you experience and love — with the added caveat of keeping it on the regular.
If you run out of steam, you can always find ways to blog about the dozens of weird celebrations and holidays that take place in July, in addition to Independence Day in the U.S. — like Ice Cream Soda Day, Video Games Day, or Bugs Bunny’s Birthday.
To plug the WordPress community into your endeavor, we suggest using NaBloPoMo09 as a tag on each post you publish to your blog. They’ll show up on the tag results page, which is also a great place to get inspired by your fellow bloggers.
A note: Please refrain from commenting with questions about NaBloPoMo in response to this post. It’s not a WordPress project. Instead, check out their FAQ to learn more about its objectives and requirements.
Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn donations for the charity of your choice. July will bring more feature updates, and more of the themes and customizations you’ve been asking for. We’re listening.
Here are the stats for June:
388,580 blogs were created.
5,845,417 posts were published.
411,540 new users joined.
5,800,941 file uploads.
3,633 gigabytes of new files.
810 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
8,330,617 comments.
6,841,633 logins.
1,245,935,191 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,245,882,985 on self-hosted blogs (2,491,818,176 total across all WordPress blogs we track).
2,153,176 active blogs where “active” means they got a human visitor.
You spend a lot of time creating great content and attracting an audience for your blog. What if you could use that influence to make a positive social impact? Now you can.
We’ve teamed up with SocialVibe, and now by adding the SocialVibe widget to your blog, you are able to earn donations for the charity of your choice by getting sponsored by a brand that appeals to you.
Each time someone visits your blog and engages with your brand (by rating a video, for example), you’re making a difference. That impact is immediately visible on your badge, i..e., ‘My blog has provided 63 cups of clean water for people in need.’
The money donated comes from your brand, so you and your readers never have to pay a dime.
In addition to earning donations, you’ll also get feedback from your charity about the difference they’re making thanks to you. By clicking the charity logo in the badge, you can find information about your cause and view real-time goal progress.
Setup is easy and only takes a few clicks – just go to Appearance->Widgets in your dashboard, add the SocialVibe widget and pick a cause and a charity. For more details you can find documentation in our support area. If you change your mind about your sponsor or cause, you can easily make adjustments by visiting your widget dashboard.
If you are running a self-hosted WordPress blog, be sure to grab the SocialVibe plugin.
With SocialVibe, our community can pool our individual influences to create positive change in the world.
May was also the month for our largest-ever WordCamp San Francisco. Mission Bay Conference Center was a packed house, but (amazingly) everything ran on schedule, and nothing went wrong! A round of applause is due to our sponsors, speakers, and everyone who attended for helping to make WordCamp such a smooth success. Thanks for making it all possible.
WordCamp San Francisco had 739 pre-event registrations (a huge jump from 427 last year), and 789 actual attendees from 32 countries — plus 15 speakers, six sponsors, and lots of volunteers.
"A Arte e nada além da Arte! Ela é a grande possibilitadora da Vida, o grande estímulo à Vida". Nietzsche.
Depois de uma noite de teatro, fragmentos de um diálogo:
1: ontem fui ver um espetáculo da Maura Baiocchi
em Brasília mesmo
Zaratustra
o espetáculo foi bem legal
e bem doido
2:posso imaginar...
Me fala das suas impressões
1: hum..
sei não..
2: dá para entender alguma coisa?
1: sim
mas o lance não é entender...
2: claro, esse velho papo de sentir o espetáculo....
1 : o texto é louco e cansativo... mas, se for pra ler o texto, é melhor ir pra uma biblioteca...
acho que poderiam ter trabalhado melhor o texto, pra ficar mais "fluido", sei lá...
mas por isso digo que o lance foi mais sentir do que entender...
tem uma cena, por exemplo, (na verdade, um movimento...hehe) em que os caras ficam 5-10 minutos no palco tremendo...direto, sem parar.
louco isso.
mas a sensação é essa mesmo: exaustão
êxtase!
2: epifania pura!
o figurino e cenário é como de grande produção?
o trabalho corporal e expressivo é intenso?
1: o figurino é lindo.
e a maquiagem também
1:Outra cena: Nietzsche vai pro bordel.
e daí encontra a verdade, a preguiça e vida!
ele flerta com a vida..
e a verdade fica tentando, tentando..e nada
e por falar em sexo, como anda sua vida?
Serviço:
Encenação de Maura Baiocchi e Taanteatro Companhia inspirada na vida e no pensamento de Friedrich Nietzsche com foco na obra poético-filosófica "Assim Falou Zaratustra - um livro para todos e para ninguém", escrita entre 1883 e 1885. Temporada | 11 a 21 de junho de 2009 - quinta a sábado - 20h00, domingo - 19h00
Teatro Plínio Marcos - Complexo Funarte - Brasília
The first is that we’ve launched a Yahoo! 360 importer (listed in your admin screens under Tools → Import) to make migration from 360 to WordPress.com super easy. Just upload the Yahoo! 360 export ZIP file, and we’ll do the rest. Yahoo! will be shutting down their 360 service soon, so if you have any friends over there feel free to give them a little help and encouragement to head over to WordPress.com
Second is the release of our WordPress.com QuickPress Yahoo! Application. You can post posts and read and moderate your most recent comments straight from My Yahoo!. (Note to any self-hosted WordPress.org folks out there: the app currently only works on WordPress.com. We’re working on making it .com/.org universal.)
Thanks to Yahoo! for their help with their Yahoo! Application Platform, and thanks to all of you for the best blogs on the intertubes.
If you need help with either of these new toys (or anything else), please contact our support team.
Comparto con ustedes un video de una exposición que tuve la oportunidad de hacer el año pasado en representación de la Asociación Vientos del Sur, titulada "Participación Juvenil y Nuevas Tecnologías".
En mi exposición abordo someramente conceptos y herramientas útiles para el trabajo de las ONGs juveniles.
Web 2.0, Ciberactivismo, los nativos digitales, el poder de los Blogs, los Wikis, las mal llamadas redes sociales, entre otros temas están incluidos en este resumen de menos de 10 minutos (la exposición original duró 30 minutos)
Gracias a Gastón por realizar la filmación y a Nacho por convertirla a formato digital.
A quienes les interese la relación entre participación, juventud e internet, los invito a leer un artículo que escribí el año pasado para un dossier sobre "juventud y TICs" para el Portal de Juventud de América Latina y el Caribe, clickeando acá
Ocuparse demasiado de uno mismo, produce una terrible fatiga y además uno se hace ciego y sordo a todo lo demás. Esta fatiga, impide ver las maravillas que te rodean. Sentirse importante, lo hace a uno ser torpe y banal. Hemos de ser livianos y fluidos. Una vez que uno ha [...]
Vendo um videozinho bobo na internet, surgiu uma ebulição de palavras...resolvi pôr logo pra fora, antes que causasse mal...
"Mas no que mais fiquei pensando foi no poder - não da comunicação - mas daquilo que não pode ser comunicado e que, ainda assim, é sentido. Talvez pudéssemos dizer "paixão", ou quem sabe mesmo "conquista". É impressionante notar o poder dessa afecção nos personagens - e, porque não, na gente também.
É uma força poderosa essa da conquista, né?.
Ela faz o mundo ficar mais agitado, intenso, iluminado.
Faz as coisas terem outro sentido, talvez um sentido mais trágico, mas nem por isso menos interessante.
Faz a gente dar mais risadas - não daquelas que damos quando estamos "sem graça", como um soluço, mas daquelas risadas maquiavélicas que dão somente aqueles que se sentem, ainda que rapidamente, os donos do mundo.
Faz a gente sentir mais na pele - e, por isso mesmo, mais profundamente - o sabor, o odor, o toque e o jeito das coisas.
O mundo parece ser mais nosso, mas não porque temos mais "coisas do mundo" na gente. Mas porque o mundo "nos tem" mais inteiros, mais dispostos, mais entregues, menos amedrontados, mais animados, mais vivos.
E, quando estamos mais vivos, respiramos mais.
E, quando respiramos mais, entramos mais em contato com o interior e com o exterior da gente - na verdade, se faz menos rígida essa fronteira entre o que é "interior" e "exterior".
E, porque respiramos mais, produzimos mais radicais livres - rejeitos do processo de queima de energia aeróbia que a respiração provoca e permite.
E, com isso, morremos mais depressa.
No fim das contas, parece que viver melhor é morrer mais (depressa). Ou, se preferir, parece que viver mais (intensamente) é morrer melhor (e mais depressa, do mesmo modo!)".
We’ve been busy lately here at WordPress.com — we’ve had an announcement of a new or updated feature for you every day this week. Today, you’re getting a two-fer!
Earlier this week, we announced VideoPress, the great new video feature for WordPress.com. Now VideoPress has its own home on the web at VideoPress.com. We’ve also got a great video introduction created by our company auteur Michael Pick, so be sure to head over and check it out. We’ll be continuing to add features to VideoPress, including support for WordPress.org users, so stay tuned to VideoPress for all the latest.
P.S. If you’re a design geek like me, you might be interested to know that the VideoPress logo (as well as all of VideoPress.com) is set in the beautiful Museo family of typefaces, designed by your fellow WordPress.com bloggers at the exljbris Font Foundry (exljbris.wordpress.com).
