Automattic has released the blog statistics tools available for Wordpress.com blogs as a plugin. Andy Skelton fills in with the behind-the-scenes workings and provides good answers. The plugin is JavaScript based, using an image that does counts the hits. [Continue]
I am a bit late on this, but it is definitely gold. Wordpress.com has pushed OpenID among the masses by enabling them to use URL of their Wordpress.com blog as an OpenID. What this means is that the Wordpress.com bloggers, about 750,000 at the time of this writing, are now OpenID enabled. [Continue]