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Hello.

After a lot of talk with several webmasters and SEO people, I decided to change the license used by wp themes submitted to our theme viewer.  Anybody that wishes to remove their themes as consequence to this decision can do so using their account. Although I don’t wan’t to discuss this decision, I will point some of the things that made me subscribe to this:

1. Theme users change the credentials anyway. It’s like in Wild Texas. Almost nobody is having respect for theme designers. I saw the copyright law broken so often, that I would need countless hours to report these infractions.

2.  GPL is better in this specific case. GPL allows users to modify themes as they please. The ones that feel good letting the credentials will do so anyway. By the way, I would like to thank to that kind people for their integrity.

3. Our theme viewer is getting spammed with casino and poker CC2.5 themes. Hopefully this will stop the spam wave.

4. Wordpress community subscribes to this: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

5. Google subscribes to this: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2007/04/12/on-sponsored-themes/

6. In long-term, this will ensure less sponsored themes and more quality (forced by our editorial standards).

I will send a newsletter to all designers in a day or 2. You have one week to comply with this situation. Any themes that will remain in our theme viewer after this date will be considered as GLP themes. Thank you for your understanding.

Cheers…

I would like to wish Happy Easter Holidays to everyone that is reading this post. One of these April mornings, I hope all of  you can forget at least for a moment all the problems that you have and just breathe fresh air of young green grass. The spring is in the air. Here’s an Easter bunny for you:

I noticed this several days ago. As I am trying to read things on wikipedia, I get “No response” error. I have to refresh the page for several time in order to access the article that interest me. Its funny that such a big site has problems like this. The incredible project that is wikipedia has incredible stats (see Alexa). Imagine if 8% of web surfers would browse your site, what would happen to your host :).

Anyway, I think this period is usually very full with school projects and stuff. A lot of people are reading articles in order to gather knowledge that would help in completing their projects. Wikipedia becomes more and more specialized on each topic. I was impressed and happy to read stuff about artificial intelligence that I am researching right now for my Ph.D thesis. I can almost see where this project is going - the ultimate knowledge base of man kind. I found several studies related to using Wikipedia as basis for artificial intelligence. Hopefully, this site will emerge into a entity that will offer full classification of any kind of human concept, making an AI-complete problem a reality. So I think the first step now is for them to buy better servers.