In a January 2006 survey conducted by WordpressTutorials.com, 48% of respondents admitted to just starting to experiment with blogging.

The purpose of their blogs vary from promoting their products and services, to building a community in their niche market, podcasting, profiting from contextual advertising, and generating additional traffic and exposure to their target websites.

Close to 50% of those surveyed began their journey into blogging with free blogging services such as those offered by Blogger.com, a division of Google.

Over time, many respondents report a lack of features and control that influence their search for a platform that offers them choice, control, convenience and comprehensive features and capabilities. Enter Wordpress into the scene.

Wordpress is known for its open-source blogging platform, which means a host of developers have contributed their time and programming expertise in molding it to be the best it can be for the community at large. This also means you can begin blogging with Wordpress today free.

You can download the files from Wordpress.org, or simply install it from your hosting account’s control panel (cPanel) through a feature called Fantastico.

Here are five compelling reasons that set Wordpress apart as a superior blogging application.
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Many people have asked me how do you create a RSS feed and what is it. RSS “Really Simple Syndication or some people call it RDF Site Summary” can be used to share information about a web site, such as news, press release and articles. It can be used to market your web site and can be very successful, if done right.

When an RSS feed is created from a website, the site’s latest articles or news will be available to other websites.

Why do I have to create an RSS Feed?
Well, Maybe you want to write original articles or news for your site and want other webmasters to be able to use
this content on their own websites, or to help promote your website. Or you may want to allow your visitors
to download it to their program, so they can get easier and faster access to it.

Before we start you need to know a few things. I am only going to teach you RSS 2.0 Syntax with this
tutorial. This is only the basics and not everything you need to know to become a true pro at RSS, but it will
at least get you started in creating your own RSS feed.

Also you will need Notepad or WordPad or some
other text editor. If you know any other programming (HTML, PHP, PERL, etc.) language it will help you
understand RSS much better.
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As the world wide web spread across the world, more and more web pages are made available in languages other than English. Google has provide a translation link and language tools to enable you to read more pages written in unfamiliar languages.

The Google Research blog posted an article about how Google’s translation tools work differently than most commercial machine translation systems. Recently, Google released their Arabic translation tool — I’ve only tried it once, but it looks very good.

I went to aljazeera.net to find some Arabic text so I could try the tool. I translated the first page I could find – the results were amazingly readable. Here is a screenshot showing the result of my translation.

I don’t know Arabic, but I do know now that the translation says Hamas condemned the United States to provide financial support for the Palestinian Presidential Guard forces, and considered it blatant interference in Palestinian internal affairs..

The NIST 2005 Machine Translation Evaluation results show that Google is ahead of companies like SYSTRAN — the brains behind Yahoo’s tool called “babelfish” and other popular lanaguage tools that cost you an arm and leg for their software translation tool.

You can try out the tool for yourself here: Google Language Tool