Around The Blogsophere 12 October 2010

"...we can talk about monetization, expanding our influence or honing our writing skills, but to me, perhaps the greatest value of blogging and related types of social media is to get to know people completely different walks of life and appreciate them for who they are." ~ Aldon Hynes

Manage Your WordPress.com Blog via SMS
*WP borrows a feature that blogspot users have had for quite some time! * Mashable writes: "Hosted blogging service WordPress.com has just added a new feature that lets users interact with their blogs via SMS text messaging." And from Famous Bloggers:::Download Latest Contributors with Images WordPress Plugin - A few weeks back I released WP Great Pens plugin, a simple plugin that adds a widget to your Wordpres blog (Works on blogs powered by Thesis Themes [...])

Kanye West talks new album, learning from his MTV incident, and carrying his mom’s legacy - (Miss Info snapped this photo on set of Clipse x Kanye “Kinda Like A Big Deal” video shoot in BK)

Shalabieh finds a strange pair of eyes watching her from her neighbour's Beirut balcony.

In Hablemos claro…en serio Enrique Ramon Galeano says he is against massive soy production; he shares [es] an essay written by his friend Ben F. on Facebook.

Lost Remote ::: You likely already know about Twitter's promoted tweets, promoted trends and promoted accounts. But now they're about to get a lot more local.