You can't have a blog if you don't really concentrate on what blogging is all about – the things that you write. That's the heart and soul of a blog. The content and all that's in it. Which is basically the where Wordpress.com blogs really pack the punch in because in this post, I'm going to give you a run down of what Wordpress.com blogs can really do.

Like all other blogging applications, Wordpress.com post interface is obviously centered around the blogs that you write. It's got everything a basic blogger can ask for, a text area you can write on, basic quicktags for you to put those bolds, italics, links and pics and even a WYSIWYG interface (a little more on this below). Being that this is Wordpress.com, they just took it a step higher. This time, your page where you write your post can be tailored to suit your writing needs and style.

As you can see everything is there as it is. What is amazing about this is that all the sidebar and panels can be expanded and move according to your preference. If you don't think you'll be using the trackback much? Move is down and contract it. Think you're going to be a photoblog. Expand the panel and make it the first thing you see when you blog.

It's that simple. It uses this little bit of programing technology called AJAX that I won't bother boring you with. The bottom line about this is that it's not just something you will tire off…it's something that has its purpose and being bloggers that we are, I know we'd use it to our advantage.

Speaking of photoblogs, Wordpress.com blogs have just added one more powehouse recently. Drag and Drop image uploaders for your images. I am not joking. That's how simple they just made it. In addition to manually uploading and browsing through thumbnails of your uploaded images. You can literally drag and drop your images from your folders to the panel and upload it to the site for you to display. You don't even have to leave the post page to upload. It's all at your fingertips. Even though it's a bit buggy now, but if that doesn't make things more simple for you…you just rewrote the whole definition for being lazy.

Going back to WYSIWYG blogging, Wordpress.com blogs were designed to answer the infamous "Mother Question". "Can my mother blog without getting lost in the system?" With the new interfaces, I guess that they have answered the question. Unlike the Live Post Preview plugins that are found in Wordpress blogs. Wordpress.com has rewritten the way your posts are previewed. The new preview feature actually previews your entire blog…in the exact way it appears on your blog. That should save a lot of people a lot of trouble especially if they decide to edit custom borders and fonts on their posts. Something that Wordpress blogs haven't been able to properly do yet.

Of course, what is Wordpress without the ability to create static pages for yourself. Things that are apart from your blog like your personal profile or a contact page or even a photo gallery when it's ready. Static pages offer the user the ability to NOT swamp their blog sidebars with too much information and instead give them a chance to neatly spread your details out over a series of pages. Practical and definitely something very very nice that people familar with Wordpress are going to use to their advantage.

Given that Wordpress.com blogs might have made a veritable Iching of blogging interfaces. I don't really see how else it's going to improve any more than it already has. I would think short of actually implementing the ability to voice or video log your posts on site itself, it's already salivating with goodies that any blogger needs.

You won't find it bloated and machine gunned with options because you can choose exactly what you want of it from the moment you start blogging. You won't find it under powered because it's got everything you can possibly need to start as a blogger. It's as perfect as it is and I don't think I can say anything else that can convince you otherwise. Try it and see…because it would probably be the last free hosted blogging application you would ever use. Period.

Here is a question that's stuck in my head.

If a fart is called a fart and a vaginal fart is called a vart.

So if a wedgie is called a wedgie, is a vaginal wedgie called a vedgie?

Hmm…I'll never look at vegetables the same way again.

Yesterday, I was talking about the interesting facts that come with Wordpress.com. Today however I going to go through all the little details that make up your Wordpress.com blog beginning with the first page you're ever going to looking at as you log in.

Your dashboard.

Basically, if you own a Wordpress blog hosted on your own webhost,unless you're one of those people who have modded their own admins, you're going to be looking at a Dashboard that's filled with information you may or may not want to look at. RSS feeds from the Wordpress developmental blogs, a small window giving you small stats about your blog as well as recent posts and recent comments. Basically it's nothing much. What Wordpress.com did with your dashboard however was change the entire thing.

What Wordpress wanted to do was make sure that everything related to getting your blog on the road was at your fingertips so the basic things that you needed to do the moment you first log into your Wordpress.com blog is right there at the dashboard. Write a post. Change your profile. Add links. Change your theme. It's all right there the moment you enter your dashboard…but that's not the heart of the dashboard. No.

The very heart of your dashboard is the fact that since all blogs in Wordpress.com are connected to each other which means that at the end of it. You will be able to see the top blogs in Wordpress.com as well as the fastest growing Wordpress.com blogs around. This gives you a first hand look at what's going on around the world of Wordpress as well as introduce you to the other blog around your community that you may not have seen before.

To make things a little more interesting, Wordpress has added the top ranking posts for the day as well as the most recently updated post. This probably is one of the better incentives that alot of 3rd generation bloggers will find appealing given the exposure that their blogs will have in the Wordpress.com community as they update their post. All in all, I can pretty much say that Wordpress.com does this is because of one thing. Community.

Wordpress has alays been a community driven project, from its humble beginnings to what it is now. Having a dot com behind it doesn't change the formula. You just make it better which is what this new project is all about. It's meant primarily to bring blogging to the people and people to blogging because without the people…blogging wouldn't be what it is now.

A poweful message wrapped in two slices of bread. That's pretty much what I can put together from the dashboard. Maybe it would be cooler if Wordpress allows users to customise their dashboard a little. Maybe even give users the opportunity to add their own RSS feeds so that they can keep track of their favourite blogs. That would be a sweet idea as it is.

But even without that. It's as good as it gets for now. That's my little penny as it is.

Well it would seem that everyone is getting themselves a Wordpress.com invite. Now as much as I like to spread the good word of Wordpress, I like to first point out a couple of things to make sure that it doesn't just operate on a hype but a functional working blog for everyone. So first off, even though I have mentioned it several times before, here are a few interesting facts about Wordpress.com.

1. Wordpress.com is still in Alpha-Soon-To-Be-Beta stages which means that if you get an invite and log on into it, you'll find that there are still a lot of things you can't do. There may be bugs, but as far as I know, there aren't any obvious ones and new features are still being added as the developers are working towards officially launching it.
2. Wordpress.com runs on the upcoming Wordpress Version 1.6…which incidentally is STILL in alpha stages and explains the first point and has a lot of new features that Wordpress 1.5+ doesn't have.
3. Wordpress.com also runs on WPMU which also powers Blogsome.
4. Wordpress.com is self hosted like blogger and you don't need to have your own domain or server to run it (because if you do, you'd already have a Wordpress blog).
5. Wordpress runs on the Bad Behavior plugin which means if you have spam broadcasting from your system, it's highly unlikely you're going to be reading Wordpress.com blogs.
6. Wordpress is by invite only. The main reason for this is because they want to make sure that people who do blog will blog and not turn it into a spam machine like what happened to blogger. That and the fact they want Wordpress.com to be a place where you can keep a close community like family, close friends and significant others.
7. I still have my invite.

I guess that's the general lowdown of Wordpress.com. They are really trying to make this work for the general public and bring the most important part of blogging to everyone. I've been trying it out for a while and it's really sweeter than our current Wordpress powered blogs thanks to the new 1.6 interfaces.

So over the next few days I'll just breakdown a list of what Wordpress.com has to offer and what I think of it in a nutshell and maybe it'll give some of you an idea of what would be coming in the new Wordpress 1.6.

Then we'll see where we go from there.

I know it's been days bit too late but better late than never. Bad Behavior 1.2.2 is out and is ready to make sure those stupid spam never reaches your comments. I've been more or less testing it to make sure it won't bother some of you like the last time and it's pretty much safe to say that those of you who were blocked off in by version 1.2.1 can now browse my site safely knowing that Bad Behavior doesn't think you're a spam bot.

Just in case however that Bad Behavior does think you're a spam bot, I just like to say one thing.

Clean. Your. System.

There is no reason why your system should be overrun with malicious spyware and trojan viruses that broadcast all sorts of crap to all of us. If you can buy yourself a decent computer then do yourself a favor and don't turn it into a RM3000 paperweight. Get a decent spyware and antivirus software. That's all it takes. In fact, I'll throw in the links to get you good free spyware removers and antivirus softwares.

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And whatever you do…please don't forget to update them regularly. Please? Don't be part of the problem. Support no tolerance for spam.