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Great Finds: Over 875 Free WordPress Themes

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WooHoo!!! All in One Place

Just updated on May 31st — Believe me, there are WAY more WordPress themes and variations here than the title of the post says.

Great Find: Comprehensive list of 875+ Free WordPress 1.5 and 2.0 Themes / Templates available for download
Type of Article: Resource of link throughs to WordPress templates
Permalink: http://www.emilyrobbins.com/how-to-blog/comprehensive-list-of-615-free-wordpress-15-and-20-themes-templates-available-for-download-266.htm
Target Audience: Every WordPress user

Content: Emily Robbins at How to Blog did the work. It shows. Emily not only made the list, she gives the details. She tells you which templates require word 2.0, which offer 3 columns, and which include WordPress widgets support. She even makes notes on specific themes, such as those that are appropriate for photobloggers. This list might not be as pretty as the WordPress Theme Viewer, but I don’t think there is a more useful list available anywhere. To find the list click the title below.

610 comprehensive list of 685 WordPress Themes

Ready to brand your blog or your business properly? Try new WordPress Theme that says what you stand for.

Congratulations and thank you, Emily. Give this woman links and links. She’s earned them.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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The TECHNORATI Business Model Revealed

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Smoke and Mirrors

Don’t be fooled by smoke and mirrors. Five blogs on an AP website is nothing. Technorati on every one of them is a big deal. Technorati is joining the mainstream. That doesn’t mean bloggers are.

By virture of it’s index of OUR blog posts, and 3 deals in announced in the last 3 days, Technorati is one of the worlds largest content providers with it’s name on every Paramount Classic and AP website.

It sure looks like we provide their content for nothing. Technorati gains plenty of fame and who knows how many dollars?

I was wrong before. The strategy here is brilliant. It’s so far outside the box, I didn’t even see it.

Sorry David, this too clever by half for me to be quiet about. What is it that I misinterpret here? Please set me straight. I really want to believe I have something wrong, but all of the pieces fit as I look at it.

How did this happen? Why doesn’t anyone see this? [links via Bloggers Blog]

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Technorati–Shopping Is NOT Strategy

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Joining the Mainstream Are We?

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I’m starting to feel like I’m on Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live. As Sting would say Be still my beating heart. Another day, another 50 cents, and Peter Hirschberg is announcing another Technorati new deal. This time Technorati teams with Associated Press to connect you and me and 40 million bloggers to over 450 AP member websites. The new service began this morning. How will this help my life, my business, my brand? I just don’t see it.

Excuse me. Excuse me, please. Is this door number 3? Darn, I lose again. Yoohoo! I’m the little guy who uses your service. [Read more…]

Technorati — Hollywood and International

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Technorati and Paramount Classics

So much going on at Technorati these days, who can keep track of all of it? David Sifry has been signing his name a lot.

Yesterday, May 21 Peter Hirshberg announced on the Technorati Weblog an 18-month “relationship” that joins Technorati and Paramount Classics. The deal will connect up-to-the minute blog posts about a film’s content to each of Paramount’s film sites. The relationship launches with the site for the film, An Inconvenient Truth, a new movie about global warming. The documentary starring former Vice President Al Gore, opens in theaters beginning May 24. Its blog will provide live blogger commentary and feature posts from the Technorati index. The press release went out on May 18th.

Technorati and International Edelman PR

Today, Peter Hirshberg posts that Technorati and Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm, are announcing a relationship that’s all about supporting the international growth of the blogosphere. He goes on to say that Edelman will be providing full support for service to the international bloggers that are now such an important part of the Technorati index.

Whew! What relief! Janice Myint’s team has enough to do.

Mr. Hirshberg ends his post with this sentence.

Both of these developments are testimony to the incredible changes to media, marketing and communication that blogosphere is bringing about— and to the increasing global reach of these developments.

For the life of me, and for all of my years unraveling sentences as an editor, I don’t know what this sentence means.

I do know my link count has finally moved this morning — the first time in almost 4 weeks.

I don’t know what that means either.

Of course, hours and new links later — it’s stuck on the same new number. I guess that means that nothing’s changed. UPDATE: IT’S CHANGED AGAIN. That makes two times in one day.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Technorati Blog Cards

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Another Feature

Technorati has rolled out another new feature. It’s sort of like a baseball card for your blog. This is how it looks for Successful Blog.

Technorati Blog Card

To see yours, go to Blog Finder, type in your URL and click search. You’ll see your card and the latests posts indexed for your blog. It’s nice to be able to see whether our latest posts have made it into the index.

It’s a great feature, Mr. Sifry, but could we have a word over here? [Read more…]

Technorati Still Wonky

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It had to be this way on the day I get a link from a hero.

I can’t tell you about it because I’m saving it for a cool road rally thing for this weekend. That is if David Sifry and Janice Myint can get Technorati fixed by then.

If I lose this link, I will be very sad. I like heroes.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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