Okay you’re blogging or writing a weblogging tool, you can ping 41 services today and who knows how many tomorrow, or just lock in rpc.pingomatic.com and worry about more important things. Also I wouldn’t recommend pinging all of those services indiscriminately as some are for specific niches (blogs in German or Japanese for example) that your blog might not fit into. Don’t pingspam.

Announcing Feedster Support in the -matic.

Derek joins Technorati as Senior Designer. I’ve heard rumors the new Technorati.com will be black and have a giant orange T.

WysiwygPro is a WYSIWYG textarea replacement that claims to be XHTML 1.0 compliant and cross-browser. Might be a good basis for a definitive plugin or feature in WordPress. I hear Typepad based theirs off HTMLArea which I guess works but I’m not comfortable with the code that produces.

It’s been a gorgeous day today, highlighted by a mini-picnic with Heather, Richard, Tantek, and [forgot name] in Yerba Buena park for lunch. I’ll leave you this Friday with Ella’s version of “Blue Skies”. For extra credit compare it with Robert Glasper’s rendition.

Get your own hypo-allergenic cat today. “The mission of ALLERCA is to produce transgenic lifestyle pets and develop new technologies in the various disciplines of animal life sciences.”

Apparently Bnet also has a blog thing going on WordPress called Leadership Now. Looks interesting if you’re into that sort of thing.

Best Software Essays of 2004 over at Joel on Software.

The Technorati cosmos for wordpress.org is finally working again and reports 94,678 links from 43,489 distinct sources. It’s also really, really fast.

Lycos Europe rolls out more WordPress hosting integration. Hat tip: Wordlog.

I’m going to be in Boston for the WordPress meetup this month. My plan is to hit every city that has one eventually. 🙂 Free copies of WP to anyone who shows up, and I’ll bring stickers too.

Carthik pointed out to me this thread that says Tripod in Sweden is offering one-click WordPress installs.

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, is doing a WordPress powered blog over at ZDNet. It has comments enabled too, something he said before wouldn’t happen. Bing!

The Weblogs.com/changes.xml, used by hundreds of update services and tens of thousands of bloggers, is now password-protected. Not sure what this means. Update: False alarm! It seems to be back to normal now.

If you’re up for a morning laugh you should read one of the most brain-dead posts on open source I’ve ever seen. So many different things are mixed up there it’s hard to keep track, it’s like twenty issues tangentially related all being tied together in a conspiracy theory that is interesting but frightening. I left a comment but it hasn’t shown up yet. Update: The comments and pings have been updated and they’re letting all viewpoints through, so speak your mind over there if you want to.

Liz Lawley and her site Mamamusings are being maliciously google bombed by a comment spammer.