NYT on mobile phone novels

The New Your Times’ got a great article up on Japanese mobile phone novels, actual “books” written via the mobile phone’s texting capability. Actually, it’s a huge phenomenon. Given the cellphone novels’ domination of the mainstream, critics no longer dismiss them, though some say they should be classified with comic books or popular music. There [...]

WordPress 2.5 gets a release date

March 10 is the official release date for WordPress 2.5, the successor to 2.3. Yep, it’s a silly naming version number, but I didn’t make it up so don’t blame me, please.

XFEP joins Grand Effect blog network

My buddy David Peralty’s publishing the eXtra For Every Publisher blog, or XFEP for short. Now he have joined the Grand Effect blog network, a small player as far as I can tell, with a total of five participating blogs. XFEP’s got a new design as well, about time David!

More on Mahalo Social

Still haven’t understood how Mahalo Social works? Check out part 2 in founder Jason Calacanis’ guide.

Is Feedburner ill? (updated)

Displaying zero subscribers on feeds using the DNS service for me at the moment, but not all feeds. BloggerTalks is fine (are you subscribing?), for instance. Weird. Updated! A few more hiccups during the day, but nothing more than that. It seems to be working again. Nice.