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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Vote for CMS Award
Vote for WordPress in the Best Open Source Social Networking CMS Award. No, I have no idea what that category means either.
WordCamp Videos
Most of the session pages on the 2007 WordCamp site now have videos on them, taken by John Pozadzides.
The Shifted Librarian
Bug Fixers
Self Importance Test
Technosailor has an online self-importance test that tells you which “web celebrity” you are based on a few questions. I’m apparently a possible outcome but when I took the test myself I got “Jason Calacanis.”
Pownce XFN
Nerd Attention Damage
I would like to award the prize for the Most Damage Inflicted to the Geek/Nerd World in the Past 5 Years to Michael Lopp, author of the seminal Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder in 2003. No article more effectively romanticized an inability to do one thing at a time, and do it well. On the bright side, Digg and Bloglines should probably give him stock. Need an antidote? Spend 10 minutes collecting everything you need to work on a problem, and unplug the internet for 2 hours. You’ll finish in 30 minutes.
Confession
I’ve been using IE7 quite a bit lately. It’s a darn-good browser and seems very fast, especially when I have a lot of tabs open, compared to Firefox.