On WordPress.com invites.

Content Sutra is looking for a WordPress hacker, a very high-profile job which would be a real coup for whoever gets it.

UIE has a great looking new WordPress blog called Brain Sparks.

Joe Trippi has switched to WordPress too. Hat tip: Niall.

My Blogpulse Neighborhood.

Bessamer Venture’s anti-portfolio, which is a pretty funny read. Hat tip: Jeff Clavier.

“The best zoo in the world has weblogs now.” The new San Diego Zoo blog is powered by WordPress too. Hat tip: Matt Haughey.

Odeo adds support for Microformats, which I consider to be more important than their subsequent post on funding. 🙂 More about microformats »

The buzz is Podshow got over 8 million dollars for their company. As was noted on Photo Matt before, “all of adam curry’s podshow affiliates are using wordpress across the network.” Regardless of that, I’m wishing them the best in their new venture. They have a killer board.

You should read spam and fake blogs, another problem I’ve been seeing a lot lately is entire blogs being scraped and their content being re-published with ads on it. Structured formats like RSS make this easier than before. The dark side to the numbers all the blog search engines have been toting is that a LARGE percentage of these are fake blogs, so much so that I currently block over 80% of all incoming pings to Ping-O-Matic as obvious spam. This has been a huge resource burden as well. We have around 2 million legit pings per day, do the math.

RSS Ping has launched! “RSS Ping combines RSS item metadata with site update information.” Call it Ping 2.0. 😉 See also: David’s post about it.

Standards and CSS in IE 7. No longer an oxymoron! (I know this is old.)

Came across two interesting posts today Trackback spam a nightmare and Fighting Trackback spam. Although I appreciate the praise for all we’ve done thus far in WordPress to address these problems, I think we’ve got a lot left to do and this is still an area of very active development.

It’s official now, the excellent TinyMCE has been integrated into WordPress 1.6. The real test after the search was if I could use it on a day to day basis, even though I normally can’t stand WYSIWYG-type things. With this integration I’ve actually found it more enjoyable to use and the code it produces is top-notch. Of course if you don’t like it, there’s a new checkbox to disable it under Options > Writing.

YAPOMR, or yet another Ping-O-Matic ripoff. I’m seeing at least one of these a week now. “1,004 pings served.” The road from a thousand to 268,879,563 (the current PoM count) is very rough, I wish them the best. Everyone is trying to get in this space now, but each is like an open proxy for ping spammers.

Mac Tips looks clean, has nice content, and runs WordPress. Hat tip: Geof.

Mozilla moves Firefox, other products, under for-profit umbrella, interesting, and ultimately for the better I think.

Textdrive just launched Strongspace, an ultra-secure storage solution.

Sitemeter provides stats for more sites than I could ever count, and their weblog runs WordPress. Hat tip: Richard Eriksson.

The new Dreamhost blog is powered by WordPress, of course. Hat tip: Kathleen.