I’m really enjoying Pownce.
Category Archives: Asides
Guardian on Splogs
The Guardian: Why Google is the service of choice for sploggers examines spam, splogs, Blogger, and WordPress.com. As you may tell from the title, it’s overly harsh on Google, but nonetheless has some interesting commentary and information. Like I said last time someone wrote about this, I would never suggest WP.com is splog-free because I delete too many of them myself, but it is a problem we take very seriously and are ever vigilant against.
Paul Davies
Paul Davies says “people are not the result of a cosmic accident, but of laws of the universe that grant our lives meaning and purpose.”
Cluster Tail
Cluster Tail “multiplexes lots of SSH connections, to invoke tail -f on a large set of machines or log files.”
Gelato CMS
Gelato CMS is an open source implementation of the tumblelog concept, as popularized on Tumblr. I’m a big fan of the Tumblelog concept, it’s not dissimilar to what I do here and on matt.wordpress, but I’d love to see it implemented as a WordPress theme. Hat tip: Ryan.
WPMU-based Social Network
Chickspeak is a WordPress MU based social network. “I recently completed my biggest project yet; a fully fledged social network aimed at female college students. The difference? It’s built on WordPress MU.”
Power to the People
Power to the People, examines using an appeal to the masses to justify mediocrity. You could turn this article into a technology Madlib, substituting big tech companies, web 2.0 products, and “users” for the various entertainment terms.
WLTC High Ground
A round of applause for Mark Ghosh of Weblogs Tool Collection for taking a stand against sponsored themes. Before WordCamp all sponsored themes should be removed from themes.wordpress.net.
Automattic and Six Apart
Megatrondon, iPhone AIM Client
Just Blaze, hip-hop producer and WordPress user, has reviewed the iPhone. Includes a video of an AIM client at the end, is that ebuddy?
Norati
Tantek Çelik is leaving Technorati, no word on his blog about the move yet. This is surprising, to say the least. Excited to see what he moves to next.
iPhone Disappointment
The process of buying the Apple iPhone was pretty easy. Glenda and I walked into a store in Daly City at about 8:30 PM and each ordered one, and walked out. No lines. The device is physically much more elegant and smaller than I expected, and the iTunes-integrated signup process was fairly smooth. However, it’s been hours now and still no activation, which means I have a very expensive paperweight, which is worse than not having it at all. Update: Approximately 16 hours after my inital setup, I now have a working phone. I was contemplating taking it back, but I’m glad I didn’t.
Headache or Bullet?
Man goes to hospital for headache, discovers bullet. Haven’t we all had those days?
Short History of WordPress MultiUser
The Police Blogs
I’m in Dallas where I saw The Police with my sister. (The tickets were her birthday present.) Afterward I was checking out their respective website and it looks like Andy Summers, the guitarist, has a WordPress blog. His site also has some interesting essays and photography.
Mossberg iPhone Review
Walt Mossberg has his review of the iPhone up, with an accompanying video. I would also link to the NY Times review, which had some differing opinions, but when I went back to the page to get the link it wanted me to login. Welcome to 2007. Both Mossberg and Pogue dug the keyboard… after a few days.
Google Apps IMAP
Google apps now supports importing mail from IMAP, which means for me it just got 1000x more interesting. I have a Gmail account I use purely for archival but I only started a few months ago and so I often just resort to grep for searching the years of archives before that.
Japan Meetup
I just read on Detlog there is a WordPress Japan meetup in Okayama on July 1. I just got a copy of a new Japanese WP book and it looks pretty neat. I’d love to make it to Japan and one of these meetups someday.
Web Storage Sites
Web storage sites loom as next big thing says CNET… in 1999.