If you work on WordPress projects, especially in teams, read on for some tips on setting up your projects in a Subversion repository to make version management, installation configuration, and WordPress upgrades smooth and painless.

Ruby. Rails. S3. SASS. HTML5. Node.js. Perhaps you’ve heard of some of these technologies, and perhaps you even know what some of them do. Maybe you have a vague sense that they’re supposed to be the shiny new thing that somehow magically makes web sites awesome. And maybe that makes you skeptical. Some new language or framework can’t really be that magical, right? Well, I have to confess, I love shiny new technology, and yes, it really is that magical.

Are web advertising networks underperforming and useless? Patric King over at Imprint certainly thinks so.

The Twitter Media blog posted an interesting analysis of the rise and fall of an entertaining hashtag that popped up recently, and there are some interesting lessons here for social media marketers.