Del.icio.us takes funding

Joshua Schachter announced del.icio.us just closed a funding round led by Union Square Ventures. Amazon.com, Marc Andreessen, BV Capital, Esther Dyson, Seth Goldstein, Josh Koppelman, Howard Morgan, Tim O’Reilly, and Bob Young round out the investment group.

WordPress community issue with hosted content

One or more WordPress administrators decided partner with a targeted content company to host almost 120,000 articles on high pay-per-click topics such as mortgage, asbestos, and diabetes. The articles section in question are linked off the WordPress home page and hidden from most web browsers using CSS.