Top 100 American Speeches. Hat tip: Dan Hersam.

If you’re having trouble getting the new Firefox you can always get it from Download.com. (Needless to say it’s really fast from the office.)

Reger is a blogging system with different types of logs for every activity from running to what clothes you wore. It basically lets you attach certain types of data to posts and then graph it out. What’s neat is something like this could be implemented as a plugin for WordPress using custom fields.

Mary Hodder’s session on Core Values of bloggers is pretty interesting. They’re discussing trust and identity online, also editorial integrity and money. Excellent moderation. People who happen to be vendors can still give valuable feedback. For example, Brendon Wilson works for PGP, but he had something valuable to offer to the conversation about encryption that wasn’t tied to his company’s product or any specific vendor. I think everyone here is smart enough to smell a demo, as someone said earlier. Lunch was very interesting, talked a lot with Matt Shobe from Feedburner. The list: democracy, attribution, transparency, innovation, personalization, accessibility, honesty, creativity, who people are, editorial independence, connectedness. Bad: power law economics, lack of attribution, anononimity (good and bad), whuffie-hoarding, links for money.

I’m in Robert Scoble’s session and there was a minor episode between Bob Wyman and Dave Winer and a few people left, but I think things have calmed down a bit. What’s really striking me right now is how loud it is even though no one is talking. The clatter of everyone typing makes it sound like it’s drizzling outside. Lawrence Lessig is a very loud typist.

The Podcasting session by Adam Curry just finished up, it was interesting but I get the impression that they’re needlessly complicating things by recreating constructs that already exist in HTML. Wifi is terrible, I’m connecting through my cell phone and I’ll try to blog everything through that. I do have a few of the tiny WordPress stickers so if you want to show your WP pride here at the conference drop by and ask me for one. Dave Sifry tried to mention Technorati when he had the mic and got smacked down, so I’m going to avoid mentioning WordPress myself (even though it is and will always be totally non-commercial) but I think it’s free for other people to bring it up. Anyway, MJ is going to smuggle me in some nutrition so I better get back to that.

Bloggercon dinner was a lot of fun. It was incredibly noisy coming in, apparently bloggers like to talk. Who knew? Met a lot of new interesting people and a old buddies. I’m never going to remember all the names. I came up with Cheyanne and MJ which was fun. Carpooling is excellent, espescially with such beautiful people. Finally met Dave as well, albeit shortly, and he offered a few words on enclosures. I’m sure there’ll be much more talk on that this weekend. I had someone compare me to Dave the other day, I guess because we both have done blogging software, have strong opinions, and my site can look a bit like Scripting News when there are lots of asides.

I’m going to be at Bloggercon this weekend and at the dinner tonight. If you will be too, drop by and say hello, I’d be happy to chat about any of the things that are underway right now.

Check if comments come from an open proxy, an excellent way to stop the recent spam attacks some have been experiencing.

How did you name your blog?

ZDNet now has a bunch of blogs, including a few in partnership with Corante. Excellent.

I was on Paid Content, that’s pretty cool. I’ve never met Rafat Ali in person but I’d like to now that we’re in the same state.

Feeling the WordPress-ure, and liking it. Glad to have you onboard! The site is looking good. Why not go the last step and start using slugs instead of IDs in your URIs? I subscribe to Jay’s newsletter.

This is too sad for words. But I only say that because I wish I was there for it. 🙂

WordPress is Pro-Nudity! (Safe for work.)

Carthik writes that Weblogs.us, a blog hosting service, is switching users to WordPress. The founder says in a comment “WordPress first impressed me when I converted 1,100 entries from my home built CMS to WordPress and then 1,700 more posts. Since that initial test I have been immensely impressed with WP’s capabilities, but even more so by the wonderful community that surrounds WP.”

Magpie, the best RSS library for PHP, is now WordPress powered. It’s a small world; I was just putting some Magpie code into WordPress today.

Thanks Jon, I’ll give you a call next time I’m in Austin.

Whatever happened to Kinja? I’m still looking for an aggregator, on any platform, that can take my blogroll from WordPress and autodiscover all the RSS URIs.