NYT on mobile phone novels

The New Your Times’ got a great article up on Japanese mobile phone novels, actual “books” written via the mobile phone’s texting capability. Actually, it’s a huge phenomenon.
Given the cellphone novels’ domination of the mainstream, critics no longer dismiss them, though some say they should be classified with comic books or popular music.
There are some [...]

Automattic secures $29.5m in funding, WordPress creator happy

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, founded on the success of blogging platform WordPress (which BloggerTalks incidentally uses) by Matt Mullenweg, have raised another $29.5m in funding, with The New York Times opening its wallet. Matt himself have a post up, calling it Act 2 for Automattic, and takes a look in the rear view mirror [...]