The winners of the WordPress Plugin 2.5 Competition have been announced and there are some powerful wordpress plugins which have emerged winners out of the all the plugins in the contest. Check them out. (via Quick Online Tips)

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.

‘’Kottke.org is one of the Web’s most popular blogs. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, Jason does not allow readers to leave comments. Kottke Komments contains the same stuff as Kottke.org, but with comments turned on! HOW DOES IT WORK? We suck down the RSS feeds from Kottke.org (published under a Creative Commons license that allows [...]

NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) – The number of people reading Internet blogs on the top 10 U.S. newspaper sites more than tripled in December from a year ago and accounted for a larger percentage of overall traffic to those sites, according to data released on Wednesday. (Read more on Reuters.com)

Technorati was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. [Sifry’s Alerts]