Intelliot got me intersted in this software from reading his blog, I'm still going to use it, small download, too.
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News that Wordpress — a popular blogging software — has been using hidden advertising on their website to generate funding has left some enthusiasts bewildered and others betrayed. The initial discussion of the links hidden on the Wordpress website took place in a Wordpress support forum. Wordpress' lead developer, Matthew Mullenweg, locked and commented in that thread offering an explanation:
The content in /articles is essentially advertising by a third party that we host for a flat fee. I'm not sure if we're going to continue it much longer, but we're committed to this month at least, it was basically an experiment. However around the beginning of Feburary [sic] donations were going down as expenses were ramping up, so itd [sic] seemed like a good way to cover everything
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