Yahoo’s Hack Day is coming up this Friday and Saturday. I’m going to be a judge at the event. The other judges are David Filo, Ash Patel, Cheryl Ainoa, Jeff Clavier, Rashmi Sinha, and Om Malik. Fun group!
Category Archives: Asides
SEO Book Interview
10 PHP Principles
NFL on WordPress
The new NFL blogs are on WordPress and hosted on VIP. Check out this info and video about it.
Martha Stewart on WP
“As my blog has grown in popularity, we realized we were ready to switch to a platform offering more programming options. After careful research, that new platform will be WordPress, which we hope to launch tomorrow with an exciting photo gallery from my most recent trip to Mexico.” — Martha Stewart. Ms. Stewart was previously on Typepad. Hat tip: Joe Clark.
Social Media Bible Podcast
In Philippines
Landed in the Philippines a few hours ago. Looking forward to meeting WordPress users in Davao and Manila! In other news, the immigration/customs forms here are sponsored by a booze company. Smartly, though, they use carbon copy so you don’t have to write the exact same thing twice, like you do in the US.
Origins and Table Mountain
Exploring Cape Town – Origin Roasting and Table Mountain.
Captcha is Broken
Captcha is broken – now what? The Guardian. I was quoted in today’s Guardian, which consistently has some of the best tech coverage around.
SxSW 2009 Panel Vote
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.
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.