RedHat Blogs, part of their “open source now” initiative, do not run on open source software.

Copy and Paste: the universal API. Please don’t break it!

Podz caught the counter at 100,000 yesterday, of course the party tonight is going to be a lot of fun. We might need to call it the 105k party though.

My CNET business cards finally came in, but funnily enough they still have the old logo. I guess this means I’m official now. 🙂

Only in the Bay area: Last night I was down at the Mountain View In-n-Out Burger enjoying a double and chocolate shake when I ran into Paul Martino, CTO of Tribe, and his lovely wife. We were both on the “Open Source Infrastructure” panel just last week. Tribe is doing some neat things with open data and standards, it’s time to check them out again.

WordPress 100,000 Party, and here’s the Evite. This is going to be a lot of fun. 🙂

Hacking a9’s Open Search into WordPress, so you can have your blog as a sidebar on a9.com.

So there is an Open Source Business Conference happening in a few weeks a few blocks away from me and I just randomly came across the site. After SxSW, reading about OSBC is like being in another world: it’s $1500 to go, only two days long, the language on the site is sickeningly corporate, and I haven’t heard of a single person there. Then again, this is an “open source” conference with Microsoft as a platinum sponsor. A real Open Source conference would have no fees, everything would be web streamed, the line between speakers and attendees would be thin or non-existant, and the topics would not focus so much on money. Actually, it would be a bit like Bloggercon.

Flickr was bought by Yahoo, as usual Om Malik called it right forever ago.

Usable Security is a new blog about—you guessed it—the intersection of usability and security. This comes up every few weeks since I improved the error messages on the WordPress login (and bbPress) to specify which part of the login was mistaken, the username or the password. Security folks see this as a problem because you’re revealing more information but I see making the error message more generic as premature security optimization. Plenty of systems where login names are public or easily discoverable, such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, most email systems, and so forth, seem to be doing just fine.

A different way to do rounded corners, for that chic Blogger look. Hat tip: Phil.

Gregory has a plugin that allows the sort of inline-editing we’ve been talking about the past few days.

Dave Winer says “The WaSP guys aren’t interested, because as designers, their livelihood depends on it being hard for users to create content.” I’m a WaSP guy and my life is devoted to making things easier.

A photo of me during the Blog Showdown presentation, Hat tip: Joe Clark. I’ve had a couple of people ask how best to tag me in a photo, I’ve seen some use “mullenweg” or “matt” or “mattmullenweg” but the best bet (and the one I watch) is “photomatt“. (Also, my happiest moment ever.)

The Yahoo toolbar is autodiscovering RSS feeds

At SxSW Mike let me know that Tim Kaine, Virginia governor candidate, has a WordPress blog.

A spammer, or a former one, compliments WordPress in this interview about 5 minutes in. It’s an interesting listen regardless. Hat tip: Praneet Kandula via email.