In the latest build of WordPress you can get a look at the new widget management in WordPress 2.5, view large version.

Instead of the current widget system, where you drag the widgets from a "pool" to your sidebar, you know add the widgets using the list of gray boxes in the left hand side of the page. The widget then appears under "current widgets" where you can use drag and drop to change the order of the widgets.

This means that you, apparently, can add as many copies of a certain type of widget as you please. I'm not sure how this works on themes with multiple sidebars, however…

WordPress 2.5 is currently set for release on March 24th.

The Danish WordPress project has now been given a subsite at the official WordPress.org: da.wordpress.org.

I still think that most Danish users will end up on wordpress.dk (because of Google Rank and the forum which stays there) but none the less it's great with an official site. This means a lot to the WordPress DK project and shows that it's not just some guys who are translating for fun (and might stop doing it some day) but that WordPress DK is a serious project, that the Danish users can count on.

The official subsite also features a blog, meaning that there are two WordPress DK blogs. As I've written in a comment at WordPress DK I suggest the following:

• The da.wordpress.org blog is about new releases with more in depth posts on what's new, known issues and such
• The wordpress.dk blog (where I contribute) will be for everything else: tips, hints, suggestions etc. The wordpress.dk blog will also feature shorter posts on new versions with links to the more thorough da.wordpress.org post.

This will, the way I see it, make it easier for both posters/contributors and end users to get a good overview on where to find what.

Anyways, congrats to René!

The reason is that there are too many corrections to be made, and therefore WP 2.4 could not be ready until March. The next WordPress release will be 2.5, which is set to be out on March 24th.

A Google blog search shows that WPAssist also has a post on this.

So far, no new features (except that you can specify your own error page to display, when you're having database problems), but some security and bug fixes instead. Read more at the above link.

You can download WordPress at wordpress.org/download.

PS: WordPress [Wikipedia] is a state of the art piece of open source blogging software, and WordPress is also the platform driving this blog and many others.

Danish WordPress
I've also been told that a Danish translation of the new WordPress version is on its way. Once it's ready you can get it from wordpress.dk/download.

Found via Matt's blog.

The reason for the debate is some analytic work done by Swedish company Primelabs in cooperation with Danish company Cision.

They have tried to map the Danish blogosphere and find out, which blogs are the most influential. They have done this by measuring the amount of inbound links that each blog has.

There a lot of arguing going on on the Danish sites, but this might as well be an international issue, so here are my two cents on this way of measuring:

1. Links tell you nothing. You can't really tell whether a link to a blog post is good or bad publicity. A link might be a "you gotta read this"-link or a "hey, take a look at this sucker!"-link. Each links will have a positive effect when you measure this way
2. Link measuring isn't enough. To know the influence of a blog we need to know more than how many links a blog gets from other blogs or sites. We need to know who is linking and why they are doing it. We also need to know who is reading the blog and how many. Most of all, the qualitative aspect is far more interesting than the quantitative aspect of how many are linking and/or reading.
3. Is this another attempt at gold digging? As blogs and the whole concept of blogging is growing and becoming more popular we will see a lot of companies trying to earn a buck on the blogosphere. Cision and Primelabs are offering companies "blog analysis", which basically means they are selling Google Pagerank (Wikipedia definition), as Søren Storm Hansen at dseneste.dk also points out (Danish link).

As you might have guessed, I'm not a big fan of measuring the influence of blogs by counting inbound links. In this way you honor the link baits, which isn't really what blogging is about.

We need to know more about the various blogs before we can even get close to talk about how influential they are.

But maybe the influence of blogs just wasn't meant to be measured? Perhaps blogs need to be a media platform that we necessarily can't track and know a lot of statistics about. Maybe it's better that way…

Today, when I looked at referrers to this blog and came across beta.bloglines.com.

As you may have guessed it's a beta version of the upcoming Bloglines — and so far I think it looks good.

The first thing you notice, is that you can now generate your own frontpage, based on which of your feeds you drag to the frontpage. Also, I haven't tested this yet, you should be able to drag feeds into and out of folders.

Well, give it a try and see what you think :-)

BlogRovR is a service where to add all your favorite blogs. You can select packages and you can add other blogs you read — or both at the same time.

When you're done doing that you install a BlogRovR Firefox extension, and when you visit a site, that one/more of your favorite blogs have written about, BlogRovR pops up in the right side of the browser window with links to the blog posts mentioning the site you're visiting.

I have just started using BlogRovR, so that's basically all I know about the service :-)

Although it's really easy to post directly from Flock, I can't tag the posts with the Ultimate Tag Warrior tags (which I display here).

So I had to choose between posting from Flock and using the standard WordPress posting interface. I decided to go with number to.

Does anyone know whether ScribeFire supports Ultimate Tag Warrior?

Check out this video of how he follows 622 feeds a day.

That's just damn impressive!