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Yesterday afternoon Automattic released WordPress 3.0 to the public.

While it’s an exciting upgrade, we are not recommending that you upgrade your sites at this time.

We are often hesitant to upgrade on what we call “zero” releases and tend to wait til the bugs shake out a bit before applying these types of updates to live blogs. Once 3.0.1 comes out, however, we will be happy to assist anyone who wants an upgrade at that time (we’re sure it won’t be long).

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Note: While the ContentRobot blog tends to focus primarily on WordPress and blogging topics, Karen takes a moment to weigh in on Facebook’s recent stance on their privacy policy and broader implications of social media.

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What would the Silent Generation think? According to Wikipedia, the Silent Generation is:

… a term coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time to refer to the generation coming of age at the time, born during the Great Depression and World War II, including the bulk of those who fought during the Korean War.

The article stated that: The most startling

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ContentRobot is pleased to announce our newest service: BlogOnCloud9.

What is it? BlogOnCloud9 is the premier destination to host your WordPress blog.  Bloggers can get the best of both worlds and take advantage of a scalable “cloud” hosting plan coupled with expert WordPress support from ContentRobot.

BlogOnCloud9 will support bloggers every step of the way.

• We’ll help to solve any issues that arise – from perplexing WordPress problems to optimizing your hosting environment.
• We’ll give bloggers their own custom WordPress installation (you won’t find any unintelligent “one-click” installs here).
• We’ll encourage bloggers to install any plugin, theme, or widget

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The ContentRobot team really enjoyed WordCamp Boston this past Saturday. Here’s what we liked best:

1. Meeting Other Passionate WordPress Developers: The RocketGenius team, developers of the awesome Gravity Forms plugin, are a smart, fun bunch. We look forward to working with them more.
2. Shaking Hands With One of Our Favorite Clients: Nine Lives Media’s Amy Katz took part in a session called “WordPress Powers My Startup” and she rocked it. We finally got to meet her for the first time ever and it was very cool.
3. Cool Giveaways: The schwag was really nice,

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Last night Automattic released WordPress 2.9.1 and ContentRobot is recommending that it’s a perfect time to upgrade your blogs.

This version fixes some bobbles from 2.9 (scheduled posts and pingbacks were not processed correctly on some hosts) along with a handful of minor issues.

Don’t hit that button without us – we look forward to helping you update to this latest WordPress release.