This German WordPress book is, as far as I know, the first to be published exclusively about WP. Here’s to many more. They sent me an email and hopefully I’ll get a copy in the mail soon.

I got the scoop that Webshots has a new beta experiment up called Webshots Shoebox which is like a universal photo aggregator mashup. Get the bookmarklet and it’ll all make sense. I noticed it imports tags from Flickr too. They have a blog to engage the conversation, so go check it all out. (The blog is on WordPress, of course.) Accord to Alexa Webshots.com has the #58 most traffic in the world. (Slashdot is #1,421.) Hat tip: Narendra.

I forgot to note that Ryan is doing these neat commit summaries of some of the work going on with WordPress. Here’s his second one. If we can bribe him into making this a regular thing I’d love to see more of these. Also check out this animated screenshot of part of the new interface for 1.6.

WordPressDash is a Tiger dashboard widget for posting to WordPress.

Why everyone needs a bugmaster. We picked a few for WordPress today in the IRC meetup but we opted to call them “Bug Gardeners” for now.

This AJAX commenting looks pretty neat, has anyone made this into a WP plugin yet?

The Fillmore Jazz Festival is this weekend in San Francisco.