There has been much speculation recently about duplicate content in Joomla (Duplicate Titles in Joomla). As I have discussed before, the question is not so much about Duplicate Content, but about pagerank dilution with Joomla URL's.

Although many in the Joomla SEO community have commented on this, there seems to have been pushback from Joomla developers, past or current, that there is nothing to see here, move along. Duplicate titles or URL's don't matter, Google is all seeing.

Joomla has a syndication module. This allows you to have an RSS feed of a section or category on your site. In fact, offering RSS feeds of your site is even easier.

Just add the following to section or category page URL of your site:

?format=feed&type=rss

Instant RSS Feeds!

It is really amazing how many contribution people give to the Joomla! project that are not developing of code. And is really great fun to see how much these contributions are honored by the community - you. One of the areas in which you can see this community contribution for the community are the events which go around the world.

The most recent events took place on the West Coast of the USA, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Thailand. Three of these events have been organized by the regional community and presented Joomla! during one of the exhibitions and conferences to a very broad audience. The Joomla!Day in Mountain View took place already the second time and was very much fun as far as reported back.

For the last three month in this year Joomla! will travel again. End of this week you will be able to enjoy Joomla during the Joomla!Day in Hungary, a week later your travel destination is Johannesburg and after that you better by in Istanbul. These events are just the remaining three for October. In November there are already two Joomla!Days scheduled one for Switzerland and one in Sweden. If we move on this pace I'm pretty sure some new event will popup in December as well.

I like to use the opportunity to start a little call for Joomla!Day registrations for 2009. We have already the first applications and also known events confirmed us that they will organized a new event again. If you are interested to organize a Joomla!Day in your country or region please get in touch with us using the events forum. We will support you with a mentor and additional events related material to make your event as easy as possible. And I'm pretty sure it will be great fun meeting the people near you, all loving the Joomla project.

About three weeks ago JoomlaCode's back end PostgreSQL database was upgraded from 7.4 to the 8.3 - and since then the performance of the entire system has been spectacular. The system is running a lot smoother and so far we've managed to handle more load than we were previously able to do with the old 7.4 version of PostgreSQL. Our maintenance is looking like its going to work a lot better as well resulting in less overall down time for the system. We'll probably end up doing some more work performance wise to get the system better able to handle load. As always, we'd like to thank GForge for supplying the system, Rochen for the hosting and in this instance PostgreSQL for their database system (obviously with many improvements between 7.4 and 8.3!)

You'll also notice Robin's blog entry about the mailing lists that have now been resurrected. New projects get a commits list so you can keep abreast of any commits. You can also join Joomla!'s commit list as well and see the commits that have been taking place to Joomla!'s SVN repository.

One of the biggest events featuring Joomla in 2008 will be the CMS EXPO at Denver in December. Its going to be a two and a half day event with over 24 great training sessions on Joomla! Even better, the CMS EXPO site has just released the news that speaking at the event will be Joomla Core Team members.

From the CMS EXPO site:

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