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Well-deserved, though I think there are too many games represented in the iPad group. Star Walk is particularly awesome.
“It includes just a short quote and links to the source blog for the rest,” Mullenweg wrote in an e-mail. “This is better than what bloggers were doing before (often copy/pasting large chunks) and more efficient.”
Adding the reblogging feature to WordPress.com has increased my blogging percentage (and how often I’m commenting on other stuff) — and it’s also brought me back to Press This for more of the same.
(via Reblog this at your own legal risk | Technology | Los Angeles Times.)
Safari Reader does hide ads, after they – along with the almost-constant barrage of ‘Share This’, ‘Tweet This’, ‘Buzz This’ bullshit – are shown alongside each post, and above all: it’s not mandatory to use, or enforced any more than the RSS button. Perhaps instead of flamebait posts of ‘Apple are out to get us’ media companies should be asking themselves ‘how did reading content online become so sucky’?
One of the reasons I like the new WordPress.com reblogging feature (and its counterpart at Tumblr)? It places the social content pimping away from the article in an unobtrusive place.
Joshua gets to be the steely-eyed catcher tonight.
I’m eagerly looking forward to what Chris is bringing to the iOS project. Can’t wait.
Ryan Markel 