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Are our personal sites vanishing to the outsourced worlds of Twitter, Flickr and Ma.gnolia? Its something I’ve resisted but I see Jeffrey Zeldman’s point.

Frank Chimero has found a series of video interviews with Ira Glass where he talks about the massive time it takes to find stories and then how to go about killing the crap. Some great advice for podcasters.

Seth Godin’s article Write like a blogger has some solid writing tips - use headlines, realise people have choices, drip information, accept people will leave, be interactive with readers, gimmicks aren’t as useful as insight, don’t be afraid of lists, show up and actually write, and say it straight out like it is.

Frederick Townes on WebProNews offers up 50 tips to get your blog Google-ranked in 30 days or less - nice advice.

After a long break it appears one of our favourite reads is back - Textism. Watch that space…

Jason Santa Maria has posted an article about his experience with the Wordpress 2.5 redesign and so has Liz Danzico (both from Happy Cog).

The new features in WordPress 2.5 include concurrent saving so you don’t overwrite each other’s posts, multi-file uploading (with progress bar), improved design, the ability to install dashboard widgets in the administrative interface and, my favourite biggie, sitewide search instead of only blog posts. Jason Harris has a quick overview of what’s in there for this new version.

Duane Story has put together a proof of concept on a self-translating blog using the new Google Ajax Language API - Wordpress without Borders.