At New York Times and around New York City museums and parks.
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Captcha is Broken
Captcha is broken – now what? The Guardian. I was quoted in today’s Guardian, which consistently has some of the best tech coverage around.
Jane’s Going Away Party
In Brooklyn, New York for dinner with Liz and Jane’s going away party.
SxSW 2009 Panel Vote
Riding the Crazyhorse: Iterative Testing and Design of WordPress. If that sounds like something you’d want to see at SxSW 2009 presented by Liz Danzico, Jane Wells, and yours truly then vote early and often. Polls close soon.
Ballot Design
How Design Can Save Democracy. AIGA tackles election ballots.
South Africa: Stormhoek Tour
Sunday tour of the Stormhoek wine farm; pizza + pool.
WordCamp South Africa Photos
Photos from WordCamp South Africa and Wembley Square afterward.
Olympians on WP
Shawn Johnson, a gold medalist and WordPress-powered blogger. Dreamhost says “So far we haven’t had to do anything special to keep her blog up,” even though the first entry has over 1,100 comments. (Man, those things pop up everywhere now.) Any other Olympians on WP you’ve seen?
Travel to South Africa
Arriving to Cape Town and geek drinks at Asoka.
MT Pro w/ Comments
Movable Type Pro — with Comments! The latest innovation in blogging. See the original here. 🙂
WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Photos
Adam Tow got some great photos at WordCamp. Update: Here are mine. See also:
- This hilarious set with the WordCamp sign
- Duane Storey’s
- Randy Stewart’s
- Ben Metcalfe’s
- Andrew Mager
- Nick from CNP’s
- Jenn Vargas
- Dennis Goedegebuure’s
- Mark Ghosh’s
- Lorelle’s
- Chiropractic’s
- Byrne Reese’s (MT developer, a spy? :))
- Liz Danzico’s
- Chris Heuer’s
- Hugo Baeta’s
- Alan Levine’s
- Laura Iriarte’s
- Jeremy Person’s
- Niall Kennedy’s
- Douglas Bell’s
- Scott Beale’s
- Emily Chang’s
- The WordPress Tattoos 🙂
- Some funny ones from the WP Scavenger hunt
What about mine? Not quite yet.
WordCamp SF Coverage
The best ongoing coverage of WordCamp SF I’ve seen is on ZDNet today. If you post/Flickr use the tags “wordcamp” and “wordcampsf2008”. See also: Techcrunch’s coverage.
My WordCamp Photos
Photos from WordCamp San Francisco. Guest photographer: Heather Rasley.
Pre-WordCamp Dinner
A dinner for speakers and Automatticians at Jack Falstaff preceding WordCamp SF 2008.
WordPress 57%
Theme Directory Interview
Testing Comment Rating
A new comment rating plugin is in effect on this site, try it out!
Start Conference Photos
A series of snaps from the excellent Start Conference, which I spoke at in the morning after Ev Williams and before Mena Trott.
WordCamp 2008 Badges
Get A Gravatar Ready For WordCamp 2008 Badges. I think this is the first time Gravatars have gone physical. Really excited about it! They’re generated on the fly using PHP and the PDF library.
Community Tagging
Matt’s Community Tags. This is the VERY BETA plugin I’m using for the community tagging on my photos, which allows people to submit tags which then go into a moderation queue to be approved or modified by an admin. Not recommended for general use yet, just getting it out there since a lot of people have asked about it.