Check out this traffic graph with data from Alexa. Hack the URI a bit and you can put anything up there.
Monthly Archives: September 2004
Very Pretty
This is neat: Fernando Graphicos has taken Michael’s Kubrick and built a few other very well-excuted graphic designs on top of it. Take a look:
It’s great to see one labor of love inspiring another. I can’t wait to see what these talented people do when the theme system for 1.3 is released.
More Synergy
Tor gets Synergy running. It can’t be that easy. Includes videos.
Costco
Costco wins loyalty with bulky bargains, I got this link in an email from my uncle titled “Why I Love Costco…” I think we have one of these in the area now, I had no idea they compared so favorably to Sam’s.
Badnarik for President
The libertarian candidate for President is using WordPress for his official campaign blog. Next time around we’ll get those silly Democrats and Republicans.
It’s a Sign
This is awful but I couldn’t resist, map of Florida counties and how they voted in 2000 overlaid with the paths of Charley and Frances.
Software Appeal
“WordPress is sexy.” Well if anyone could, Kitta would know.
No More Sun
A couple of people wrote in to ask what happened to the sun in the header. You may have noticed it too, if you aren’t one of those leechers on RSS. 😉 I was told that today is the first day of Fall. The sun in the header was for summer, and while it’s still hot as heck here in Houston, there is a season. (Turn, turn, turn…)
Gallery: 9-23-2004
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Most Screens
Leonard’s multi-screen setup. What’s really crazy about that (besides the fact he has a panaramic picture across 5 monitors) is he uses an open source project called Synergy to “share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware.” Who says open source doesn’t innovate? That’s almost as cool as News.com accepting pingbacks. 🙂
More Screens
The quad-monitor setup is going well. None of them match each other, but it’s 62″ of total screen space. Life is good. Firefox still seems to have some issues when it’s used on a secondary monitor, but hopefully that’ll work itself out in a later release.
WP Meetup
September’s WordPress meetup is coming up. The new Meetup site is fantastic, it addresses everything I didn’t like about them before.
Recognizing WP
News.com Leads Blog Communication
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen all year. Check out the HTML of this article I linked a few days ago. Notice anything at the top?
<link rel="pingback" href="http://tb.news.com/p2t.cgi/2100-1032-5368454" />
Houston, we have Pingback support! Let’s dig deeper:
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:trackback="http://madskills.com/public/xml/rss/module/trackback/">
<rdf:Description
rdf:about="http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5368454.html"
dc:title="Microsoft flip-flop may signal blog clog"
dc:identifier="http://news.com.com/2100-1032-5368454.html" />
trackback:ping="http://tb.news.com/tb.cgi/2100-1032-5368454"
</rdf:RDF>
Ugly as sin, but that’s trackback. It gets better…
A little URI hacking takes us to this page which lists all trackbacks and pingbacks the article recieved. How cool is that?
It’s my understanding that even though they’ve had the trackback autodiscovery code for a while they’ve been recieving mostly pingbacks, which makes sense given that it’s more fully and elegantly automatic. It would be cool if they could add support for the nascent rel="trackback" discovery method and save themselves the trouble of the RDF hack. Hopefully spammers won’t exploit their trackback server too soon and they can support legacy systems that don’t implement Pingback yet.
The implications of this are fairly large. News.com is obviously bootstrapping code that will involve their readers with the blog conversation surrounding their articles. How long for other sites to catch up? Will they plug into Technorati or Pubsub next? As far as I know this is the first major media organization to implement Trackback and Pingback. The team at News.com should be commended for their effort and leadership in this area.
New Music Tuesday
Jean-Louis is Everywhere, which has my favorite bass clarinet solo.
Broken 100
The Technorati 100 looks like it is broken. It wasn’t me.
Moblogging
Adam Greenfield on Moblogging. I’ve been lessblogging since 2002. (I’ll also admit at one point I thought moblogging was silly.)
Lindows Chat
Om talks with Lindows/Linspire founder Michael Robertson.
Gallery: 9-21-2004
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Gallery: 9-20-2004
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