Russell Beattie is moving to WordPress, great to hear!

Structured Blogging is a way to structure blog posts for reviews and such so that they can be aggregated in interesting ways. Here’s a demo of their plugin.

Ordered List switches to WordPress 1.5, I had written about the site last year when I saw it in my referrals. “The WordPress template system seems to be perfect for me. I can completely control the form, function, and presentation of my site, while leaving the core code completely intact.”

Interesting fact: the iCurve also makes an excellent pizza box holder.

Bloggers of America, chill. Great advice! Declan’s story seemed like a bit of a blogger troll.

Matt Haughey says Blogspot is hurting America, which is silly but he probably knows that. It’s just too easy to automate the creation of Blogspot blogs. I would estimate about 4/5ths of the spam pings we get at Ping-O-Matic are Blogspot blogs, which makes them harder to filter en masse because we have thousands of legitimate Blogspot users too. Hat tip: Mark.

I can’t believe I’m going to be out of town for this concert, Branford Marsalis and Ravi Coltrane celebrating the 40th anniversary of Love Supreme. (Listen to Branford’s recording of Pursuance.)

Carly vs. Bono

The art of project management by Scott Berkun is coming out next month. My quote on it is about halfway down the page.

Eric has a new version of Gatekeeper, the very effective spam plugin that lets you quiz people before they leave a comment. Compare installing Gatekeeper under 1.2 and 1.5 to see how far the plugin API has come.

Don’t bother with all the ultra-fancy javascript email encoders, plain entity encoding works just fine.

Doc Searls on framing in a blogging article. Market statistics aren’t hard to find, just ask one of the people indexing the darn thing. (Technorati, Feedster, Pubsub, Bloglines…) To read the original article you have to register first—obviously an organization that “gets” the web.

It looks like LinkRanks have been owned, dominated by something call “deai.com.”

Another great extension for Thunderbird, inline spellchecking checks words as you type.

My new favorite cookie is French Vanilla Milanos. Too bad they don’t come bite-sized like the mint ones do now.

How many days, months, and years have you put into your site? Do yourself a favor and take a few hours to back up everything, right now. You’ll feel a lot better afterward. Anyone have any favorite backup tips they’d like to share? Right now I have my servers backing up to a remote fileserver over FTP nightly, and my home stuff is mostly flying without a net.

A Firefox theme for the bling-inclined

James Lee sent me a link to TB Quickmove, an extension for Firefox Thunderbird which lets you move messages into folders with hotkeys, which is what I really really needed. I only wish I could map regular letters.