WordCamp San Francisco 2008 Signup. Signup is now open for WordCamp SF, and it’s $5 cheaper than last year even though we’re at a bigger venue (with more comfortable seats, based on your feedback) and should be packing more awesomeness. Who’s going to be speaking on what? Well that’s still a surprise. 🙂
Category Archives: Asides
WordPress Geniuses
Geniuses for WordCamp SF Bar?. Lloyd is organizing a “Genius bar” at WordCamp San Francisco of volunteers to help everybody with their WP problems. I love it!
Caloric Restriction Pill
WordPress for iPhone!
WordPress for iPhone Available Now. :)! Reviews coming in: WordPress app hits the iPhone fashionably late.
Favorite Women Bloggers?
In SF Chronicle
There’s an article about me in the San Francisco Chronicle, written by Chris Cadelago. It’s a good mainstream summary of what’s been going on the past few years. Chris talked to almost everyone I know, including getting Toni’s opinion of my car. You can, of course, get a paper copy in SF today.
Dr. Horrible
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a project from Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris.
2.6 and Cookies
WordPress 2.6 is out and it’s a really solid release, so check it out. Ryan has a good post on SSL and Cookies in WP 2.6. My congrats go out to the whole team for putting together the release, ahead of schedule! Update: Joseph has some info on XML-RPC and Atom changes.
Transition to Electric
Our Electric Future?, by Andy Grove formerly of Intel.
Pimping Firefox
Tim Ferriss writes Pimping Firefox: The Basics (Matt Mullenweg, Garrett Camp, and More). Includes my 5 favorite extensions.
iPhone-native WordPress Client
We’re doing an iPhone-native WordPress client, check out the screencast here. It will work for both .com and .org, be available FREE from the App Store, and best of all it’s going to be completely Open Source, which
as far as I know no current apps in the store are. Update: Good news, sounds like there will be at least a few OS apps in the store on opening days.
Unofficial International WordPress Day
Today is Unofficial International WordPress Day. It’s an honor to have such a supportive community, and things like this are very much appreciated.
WordPress / Yahoo Brickhouse Meetup
If you’re in the San Francisco area join us at the Yahoo! Brickhouse for a WordPress meetup this Wednesday. This’ll actually be my first time at the Brickhouse, but I hear they have some mean Wii players.
Top Gear on WordPress
For the Top Gear fans out there, the new Top Gear blog is the latest WordPress.com VIP. Vroom!
Kindle Thoughts
Seth’s Blog: Random thoughts about the Kindle. I agree with most of this. I’ve been meaning to write a Kindle review forever. I’m probably not going to get to it, but I will say that it has fundamentally changed the way I read and buy books. It has also increased my book reading a non-trivial amount.
Ops People
Magento / WordPress Integration
2008 Design Trends
2008 Design Trends, a great visual list.
Friends Using Typepad?
Michael Krotscheck has an interesting post called Friends don’t let Friends use TypePad, which apparently ruffled some feathers and elicited a pretty venomous response from a Six Apart Vice President. I guess is part of their new plan to “compete” but statements like “TypePad simply blows WordPress.com away on SEO” and “On WordPress.com, you’re kind of moving into a bad neighborhood — by their own admission, one-third of the blogs on WordPress.com are spam” don’t exactly lend credibility. Michael responded eloquently in a comment and then again in a follow-up post. Lloyd has jumped in with some specific facts on Typepad’s (lack of) SEO. In the meantime we just turned on sitemaps for everybody on WordPress.com, a popular user request.
Social Networking Sanity Check
Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check, from GigaOM.