I recorded the Zeldman keynote on my camera and the quality isn’t the best (I haven’t even listened to it yet) but I wanted to put it up for people who couldn’t make it. Listen for the surprise towards the end. Here it is: Jeffrey Zeldman SxSW 2005 Keynote. Sorry, looks like I accidentally put up my Jeffrey Zeldman/John Cage remix edition. The link should work now! Everything was really exciting, I can die happy now. 🙂
Category Archives: Personal
Civicspace Labs
The new Civicspace Labs site is up, it’s a lot easier now to tell what in the world they actually do. Nice redesign!
Texas Food
I’ve got a “Vote for Pedro” shirt on my chest and baby back ribs and Blue Bell ice cream in my stomach—life is good. I can’t believe how much I missed BBQ!
In Texas
It feels great to be in Texas again, so much about this state is so beautiful. My sister is picking me up in a few minutes, I’ll see the rest of you tonight.
Tahoe Pics
A day in Tahoe, everything from snow on the beach to blue steel to flying dirt and gorgeous rocks and water. Oh, and of course a little shameless self-promotion.
Structured Blogging
Structured Blogging is a way to structure blog posts for reviews and such so that they can be aggregated in interesting ways. Here’s a demo of their plugin.
Ordered List Again
Ordered List switches to WordPress 1.5, I had written about the site last year when I saw it in my referrals. “The WordPress template system seems to be perfect for me. I can completely control the form, function, and presentation of my site, while leaving the core code completely intact.”
FEC Non-Scandal
Bloggers of America, chill. Great advice! Declan’s story seemed like a bit of a blogger troll.
Love Supreme Anniversary
I can’t believe I’m going to be out of town for this concert, Branford Marsalis and Ravi Coltrane celebrating the 40th anniversary of Love Supreme. (Listen to Branford’s recording of Pursuance.)
Project Management
The art of project management by Scott Berkun is coming out next month. My quote on it is about halfway down the page.
New Gatekeeper
Eric has a new version of Gatekeeper, the very effective spam plugin that lets you quiz people before they leave a comment. Compare installing Gatekeeper under 1.2 and 1.5 to see how far the plugin API has come.
Email Encoding Considered Useful
Don’t bother with all the ultra-fancy javascript email encoders, plain entity encoding works just fine.
LinkRanks
It looks like LinkRanks have been owned, dominated by something call “deai.com.”
Inline Spellchecking
Another great extension for Thunderbird, inline spellchecking checks words as you type.
New Milanos
My new favorite cookie is French Vanilla Milanos. Too bad they don’t come bite-sized like the mint ones do now.
Just Back Up
How many days, months, and years have you put into your site? Do yourself a favor and take a few hours to back up everything, right now. You’ll feel a lot better afterward. Anyone have any favorite backup tips they’d like to share? Right now I have my servers backing up to a remote fileserver over FTP nightly, and my home stuff is mostly flying without a net.
Global Network
Announcing the Ping-O-Matic Global Network, a global and redundant array of servers providing Ping-O-Matic service and APIs.
Web Photos Pro
The Web Photos Pro site is run mostly on WordPress, which I didn’t even realize until I saw the “Powered by WordPress” link. Great example of WP used as a CMS for an entire site. (The software looks cool too.)
At Spam Summit
I’m at the web spam summit and it’s going pretty well. I think some excellent things will come out of this. I wouldn’t want to be a spammer these days.
Paris Hilton’s VoiceMail
It’s like one of those train wrecks you can’t look away from, but Om has the scoop that Paris Hilton’s voicemail was cracked as well.