Install in 10 min. of a Wordpres blog, with a specific language (Romanian), taking into consideration that you already have a hosting account and a MySQL database.

Good luck!

Sarah Louise Heath Palin (born February 11, 1964) is the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election. She was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska, city council from 1992 to 1996 and mayor from 1996 to 2002. After an unsuccessful campaign for lieutenant governor of Alaska in 2002, she chaired the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004. She was elected governor of Alaska in November 2006 by defeating the incumbent governor in the Republican primary and a former two-term Democratic governor in the general election. She is the youngest person to have been elected to the position, and Alaska’s first female governor. On August 29, 2008, Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain announced he had chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate. She was nominated at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Palin is the first woman and the first Alaskan to run on the Republican Party’s presidential ticket. (Wikipedia)

Palin facing voters who doubt her readiness
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin enters her debate Thursday night with Democratic rival Joe Biden as many voters harbor …

A less-popular Sarah Palin heads to debate
Los Angeles Times, CA
By Maeve Reston, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer When Sarah Palin was introduced five weeks ago as John McCain’s running mate, her impact seemed seismic. …

Political Wisdom: Sarah Palin’s Big Moment Arrives
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
by Sara Murray and Gerald F. Seib Tonight’s vice presidential debate is the big moment for Gov. Sarah Palin, and Michelle Cottle of The New Republic says …

McCain’s ‘Stop Sarah Palin’ strategy working like a charm, polls show
Los Angeles Times, CA
Sarah Palin to stoke overconfidence among the nation’s Democrats and set the stage for yet another improbable Arizona comeback is working exactly as planned …

My life as Sarah Palin: in the line scrutiny
Newsday, NY
I was Sarah Palin last week. Someone quizzed me in front of a camera, asking me all sorts of questions – in my case, for an upcoming documentary on Shea …

Latest Sarah Palin Couric release
The Times, South Africa
Michelle Cottle in The New Republic says that the McCain campaign must be wondering why they hired Sarah Palin. ‘The governor obviously possesses raw …

Viewpoint: Palin column prompts rapid response
Baltimore Sun, United States
Sarah Palin is out of her league and should step down from the GOP ticket. The fierce reaction to my column has been both BRACing and enlightening. …

Palin has confounded opponents and staff in previous debates
Seattle Times, United States
“The political landscape here is littered with people who have underestimated Sarah Palin,” said Eric Croft, a former state representative who ran for the …

Entertainment value ‘huge’ for Palin-Biden
Hollywood Reporter, United States
Maybe the first McCain-Obama go-round wasn’t as widely watched as expected, but Thursday night’s vice presidential debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden …

Palin stumbles on questions
News24, South Africa
Washington – Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin underlined her opposition to abortion in a televised interview on Wednesday, but stumbled on …

Blogosphere:

Questions For Sarah Palin
masaccio
Palin. Palin. Here are three questions I’d like to ask Sarah Palin at the Debate. 1. Methicillen Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus and Multi-Drug Resistant TB are two emerging threats to health in the US. You have stated that you would …

10 answers for Sarah Palin
(Roger Simon)
Even if asked tough questions at the debate, Sarah Palin doesn’t have to be a genius to win.

Sarah Palin: Supreme Court rulings?
Mark Silva
COURIC: Joe Biden and Sarah Palin have put in some very long days, preparing for tomorrow night’s debate. Tonight, to give you a better sense of who they are and their views on a number of issues, we’re beginning a new series, …

Yet Another Slick Sarah Palin Secret E-Mail Account
Kagro X
Like Karl Rove and the rest of the Bush/Cheney gang before her, Sarah Palin has been evading public oversight and record keeping laws with what it turns out is an ever-expanding network of secret e-mail accounts designed to keep her …

Rolling Stone presents 11 myths about Sarah Palin
Mark Frauenfelder
Rolling Stone has compiled a nice list of myths about Sarah Palin. 1. THE MYTH: “She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay. And made a profit!” — John McCain, at a campaign stop in Wisconsin …

Sarah Palin’s Lesbian Friend
DAN SAVAGE
Sarah Palin claimed to have gay friends when she ran for governor of Alaska in 2006. Gay bloggers and reporters have attempted to locate Palin’s allegedly gay alleged friends in the weeks since John McCain selected her as his running …

My Sarah Palin Order!
Dee
For some reason, the bumper sticker pictures don’t want to show up on this post. The first one said, “Sarah Palin A Hero for Real Women”. The second one said, “Sarah Barracuda for Vice President”. I also got my Mom a tote bag. …

Palin Silent on Supreme Court Question
Tahman Bradley
ABC News’ Ariane DeVouge Reports: In an interview with CBS’s Katie Couric on “The Evening News” Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could not cite a Supreme Court decision she thinks was wrongly decided besides Roe v. Wade. In the interview, Palin. …

Sarah Palin has a name for your baby
Roger Sinasohn
Yep, coming all the way from Alaska via that well-known series of tubes, it’s the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator. Just put in the name you were thinking of and get back Sarah’s suggestion for a better name. …

Sarah Palin and the Right to Privacy
Jonathan Singer
There has been quite a bit of focus — rightly so — on Sarah Palin’s apparent inability to name a Supreme Court case outside of Roe v. Wade with which she disagreed, but I’m with Marc Ambinder: To me, even more stunning than Palin’s …

Video: 9/30 Sarah Palin Katie Couric FULL INTERVIEW (HQ). This is the full story/ full interview from Tuesday September 30th, 2008

Bush says attacks on Georgia “dangerous escalation”
Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) – President George W. Bush on Saturday said attacks by Russia on neighboring Georgia outside the war zone of South Ossetia marked a …

Georgia proposes cease fire in S Ossetia
The Associated Press
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday to declare a cease fire in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. …

Georgia conflict: Pro-Kremlin enclaves surround Russian borders
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
The enclave of South Ossetia in Georgia sought Russian protection as far back as 1993. The Kremlin’s troops, officially designated as peacekeepers, …

McCain, Obama urge halt to fighting in Georgia
The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The major candidates for president on Friday called on Russia and Georgia to end their military action and appealed for more …

Georgia: New Trial in Love Triangle Killing
New York Times, United States
By AP A woman convicted of shooting her 85-year-old ex-boyfriend to death because she thought he was seeing another woman was granted a new trial more than …

REFILE-Georgia says may appeal for int’l military help
Reuters
MOSCOW, Aug 9 (Reuters) – Georgia may appeal for international military assistance depending on how the conflict in its separatist region South Ossetia …

Russian-Georgia conflict hits close to home for US archer
USA Today
One of her roommates looked at her, “Georgia?” She quickly found out her homeland was under attack. Georgia’s US-educated president, Mikheil Saakashvili, …

Georgia pays price for its Nato ambitions
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
One fact is clear: the Kremlin’s troops would not be in South Ossetia today if Georgia were a loyal ally. Instead, Mr Saakashvili is paying the price for …

Emerging Markets-Selloff on Georgia conflict, Argentina fears
Reuters
By Daniel Bases NEW YORK, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Fighting between Russia and Georgia involving a breakaway republic and plunging confidence in Argentina’s future …

Georgia Conflict Quotes
Sky News, UK
Georgia and Russia are locked in a conflict that threatens to explode into all-out war. “I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Georgia, …

Blogosphere:

The candidates on Georgia
Ben Smith
McCain condemns the invasion and Obama calls for restraint. See also: McCain’s hard stand.

Did the US Prep Georgia for War with Russia?
Nathan Hodge
The news thus far: Georgia, which has been locked in a drone war over the separatist enclave of Abkhazia, has launched an offensive to reclaim another breakaway territory, South Ossetia. Latest reports indicate that Georgian forces are …

US Attacks Russia Through Client State Georgia
“Georgia and the Pentagon cooperate closely,” reports MSNBC, “Georgia has a 2000-strong contingent supporting the US-led coalition in Iraq, and Washington provides training and equipment to the Georgian military.” …

Georgia: The Blame Game
Onnik Krikorian
At stake are Russia’s already strained relations with the West, which backs Georgia, as well as Georgian President Mikhael Saakashvili’s hopes of leading his country into the NATO alliance within the next year. …

Candidates React to Georgia/Russia Conflict
Today, news reports indicate that Russian military forces crossed an internationally-recognized border into the sovereign territory of Georgia. Russia should immediately and unconditionally cease its military operations and withdraw all …

Morning Russia-Georgia Roundup
Robert Farley
Georgia claims to have shot down ten Russian aircraft; the Russians say they’ve lost two. Significant Russian air attacks over Georgia, which makes me suspect that the losses are from SAMs. Russian paratroopers are in Tskhinvali; …

NATO encouraged Georgia – Russian envoy Georgia: my take from today’s London “Times”
Edward Lucas
That is the bleak outlook for Georgia this weekend, after what initially looked like a quick military win against the separatist regime in South Ossetia. Georgia’s attack followed weeks of escalating provocations, including hours of …

Afternoon headlines: Edwards vs Georgia
While the cable TV news stations go wall-to-wall about John Edwards, who admits to his affair but denies he’s the child’s father, the Russians and the Georgians are going at it:

International Law, Power Politics, and Russian Intervention in Georgia
Chris Borgen
Russia’s intervention in Georgia is the latest, and most obvious, example of the peculiar role that Russia plays in the various so-called frozen conflicts in former republics of the USSR. As international security expert Dov Lynch has …

del.icio.us has just become Delicious. Faster and easier. And, I hope to be at least same useful as it was the previous version.

Yahoo! blog lists some of the improved characteristics of the new web site: speed (new platform), search(faster, more powerful, smarter), design changed user interface, usability).

They says that they changed the domain name due to the “zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years (for example, “de.licio.us”, “del.icio.us.com”, and “del.licio.us”“.

You have to login again now, due to the new login cookie (the domain changes).

Delicious (formerly del.icio.us, pronounced “delicious”) is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. It has more than three million users and 100 million bookmarked URLs.

Twitter purchased Summize these days, in order to improve the search of the Twitter network, for relevant topics.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (otherwise known as tweets) which are text-based posts, ranging up to 140 characters long, via SMS, mobile, or Twitter’s web site

Twitter blog confirmed this aquisition: “We’re excited to announce that Twitter has acquired Summize—an extraordinary search tool and an amazing group of engineers. All five Summize engineers will move to San Francisco, CA and take jobs at Twitter, Inc. This is an important step forward in the evolution of Twitter as a service and as a company.”

Summize offers an API so other products and services can filter the constant queue of updates in a variety of ways. The Summize service and API will be merged with our own and integrated under the Twitter brand.

Twitter can connect groups of people in critical situations, and there are a lot of such examples. The American Red Cross uses Twitter to exchange minute-to-minute information about local disasters, including statistics and directions.

Replacing the thousands of social networks with a single big social network? No, but a golden mine, maybe the best service of Google for me and my 287 web sites and tens of blogs, every one with its own users till now.

So, from now on any of us can have his own social network, using Google Friend Connect. In order to become a social site, you have to add a snippet of code, picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community. This way, your visitors will be able to see, invite, and interact with new friends, or, using secure authorization APIs, with existing friends from social sites on the web, including Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, orkut, Plaxo, and more.

“Google Friend Connect is about helping the ‘long tail’ of sites become more social,” said David Glazer, a director of engineering at Google. “Many sites aren’t explicitly social and don’t necessarily want to be social networks, but they still benefit from letting their visitors interact with each other. That used to be hard. Fortunately, there’s an emerging wave of social standards — OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial, and the data access APIs published by Facebook, Google, MySpace, and others. Google Friend Connect builds on these standards to let people easily connect with their friends, wherever they are on the web, making ‘any app, any site, any friends’ a reality.”

Google promises for site owners a better traffic (people will bring their friends with them and can opt-in to publish their activities on those sites back into their social network, attracting even more visitors), an increase in user engagement (more interesting content and richer social experiences by using OpenSocial applications), and less work by implementing social components without hiring a programming team or becoming a social network.

TechCrunch give us details after Erick Shonfeld talked with Google engineering director David Glazer: ” …if you go to a Website that is part of Friend Connect, you will be able to sign in under your Facebook, Google Talk, hi5, Orkut, or Plaxo IDs (you choose which one you want to sign in under, with more options coming). Then you authorize the site to go out and retrieve your friend’s list from that network. Any of those friends who also happen to be members of the site you are on will then show up and you can interact with them.”

Let’s start!, I told myself. And I pushed the button “Sign-up for preview release“. A new window, with an online form. I filled it and pushed the Submit button. But the preview release is just a short notice: “Something bad happened. Don’t worry, though. The Spreadsheets Team has been notified and we’ll get right on it.”

I tried several times, with Firefox as well as with Internet Explorer. Same result. Very beta!

(See the full Press Release)

Finally, Google decided on the indexing of the feeds. The policy is now to index the multimedia podcast feeds only, as no HTML page has the same content or they have more complete item descriptions than the associated HTML page.

There are two main reasons to exclude the common feeds from the Google’s search results:

1. Feeds increase the likelihood that users see duplicate search results (because of this, some webmasters block off access to the robots to avoid them indexing the pages that have these data feeds)
2. Users clicking on a feed may miss valuable content available only in the HTML page.

An alternative for the old search for the feeds it is Google Reader or iGoogle.

For the owners of podcast feeds that do not want it to be indexed, they can comply with Yahoo Guidelines, or, if they use Feedburner they can easily set this up within Feedburner.

SixApart finalize their GPL version of the Movable Type as an open source, Movable Type Open Source 4.0, with the help of their community.  This means you can freely modify, redistribute, and use Movable Type for any purpose you choose.

Movable Type Open Source has every feature of Movable Type 4.0, as well as:

• Several new minor improvements and bug fixes.
• All plugins, themes, templates, designs, and APIs that work with MT4 work with MTOS. MTOS also works with other Six Apart open source technologies such as memcached.
• Built-in support for an unlimited number of blogs, an unlimited number of authors, and sign-in with OpenID, with no plugins needed.
• There’s a public Subversion repository for getting the MTOS code and nightly builds.
• Once there are stable public builds, those downloads will be on movabletype.org as well.
• You can find out how to contribute to the MTOS project and the MT community at movabletype.org.
• MTOS support is provided by other members of the community.
• Movable Type Open Source is being released under the standard GPL license.

Anil Dash post on MT blog about Movable Type Open Source

Download Movable Type Open Source

The company Corbis is offering for bloggers access to its stock photography, in exchange of some ads that it will be embedded into these images. The photos will either include an ad overlay on part of the image, or embedded advertising that pops up when a Web user runs a cursor over the picture.

The photos will be accessed via a web link from the site PicApp.com, now in a test phase.

Corbis says that the pictures are tracked and they are able to find out when the pictures are used illegally.

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