Riding the Crazyhorse: Iterative Testing and Design of WordPress. If that sounds like something you’d want to see at SxSW 2009 presented by Liz Danzico, Jane Wells, and yours truly then vote early and often. Polls close soon.
Category Archives: Asides
Ballot Design
How Design Can Save Democracy. AIGA tackles election ballots.
Olympians on WP
Shawn Johnson, a gold medalist and WordPress-powered blogger. Dreamhost says “So far we haven’t had to do anything special to keep her blog up,” even though the first entry has over 1,100 comments. (Man, those things pop up everywhere now.) Any other Olympians on WP you’ve seen?
MT Pro w/ Comments
Movable Type Pro — with Comments! The latest innovation in blogging. See the original here. 🙂
WordCamp SF Coverage
The best ongoing coverage of WordCamp SF I’ve seen is on ZDNet today. If you post/Flickr use the tags “wordcamp” and “wordcampsf2008”. See also: Techcrunch’s coverage.
WordPress 57%
Theme Directory Interview
Testing Comment Rating
A new comment rating plugin is in effect on this site, try it out!
WordCamp 2008 Badges
Get A Gravatar Ready For WordCamp 2008 Badges. I think this is the first time Gravatars have gone physical. Really excited about it! They’re generated on the fly using PHP and the PDF library.
Community Tagging
Matt’s Community Tags. This is the VERY BETA plugin I’m using for the community tagging on my photos, which allows people to submit tags which then go into a moderation queue to be approved or modified by an admin. Not recommended for general use yet, just getting it out there since a lot of people have asked about it.
Random Redirect Plugin
I just updated the Random Redirect plugin, with two extra parameters.
Theme Video Tutorial
Free Jon Miller
BoomTown Plea to Jeff Bewkes: Free Jon Miller! — Kara Swisher.
Free Software Usability
Why Free Software is hard to use, and how to improve it, by Matthew Paul Thomas. (The other Matt Thomas who used to be involved with WordPress.)
Interference Robustness?
What is Interference Robustness? In case you’ve ever wondered what that checkbox under Mac wifi means.
Plugin Competition
Using WordPress as a CMS
Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS. Would love to see more articles like this.
ALA Survey
Cuil
I like Cuil. There’s just something very intuitive about the interface that fels comfortable to me, but I’m not sure how to articulate it. And it’s fast! Going to try it out as my default search engine for the next few days. Downside? Sometimes the images seem completely random, and I do see some spam in the index.
Beyond REST? XMPP
Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP. Pretty fascinating stuff.