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The Blog Herald has posted an interesting piece on an unannounced change in WordPress 2.8. Basically, Wordpress no longer notifies other servers of your updated articles at the same time you post those articles.

Blogger Christian Bolstad found a new feature in WordPress 2.8, undocumented and not among the release notes in the Codex. Basically, it changes the notification behavior of WordPress, from notifying ping services like Pingomatic and others you might use automatically when publishing a post or editing a previously published post, to doing a once an hour notification using the built-in pseudo cron.

I doubt that the change to ping only once an hour in itself is that big of a deal to most bloggers. The biggest problem is that the change was undocumented. Even in the world of open source which demands transparency such an omission may not qualify as a sin, but it does qualify as the basis of for conspiracy theories and blogger rants. I wonder if this change will stick in the next version of Wordpress?

"From mid December 2007 on, you can get a printed User Manual in English language, beside the German one available since some years.

The User Manual Version 1.4 contains several descriptions of the eGroupWare applications and one Chapter about "getting started" in the popular eGroupWare modules. The manual has 180 pages and nearly 110 colored screenshots."

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Editor's Note: As of this writing an XOOPS post on two community initiatives is showing more HTML code than text. Since I'm not sure when they'll get the code/editor/content thing straigten up, I've placed an editied post below.

The XOOPS Foundation is very proud to announce the support of two very inspiring community initiatives: the recently opened XOOPSDOCS.org and the brand new XOOPSADDONS.org!

"On August 1, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts changed the Enterprise Technical Reference Policy to include Microsoft's Office Open XML format along with OASIS' OpenDocument Format. I believe Massachusetts made the only defensible choice possible."

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