The WordPress download counter is about to break half a million!

I’m blogging about the Blog Business Summit over on my WordPress.com blog. Here’s the feed.

At the Blog Business Summit the next few days we’ll have a graphic in the slideshow that they have on the screen during downtime. Check it out. It’s care of the extremely talented Khaled.

Russ switched to WordPress and has written a little bit about it. His permalinks are still a little funky, but they match his old system and in terms of content the transition from his custom CMS seems to have been pretty seemless.

Plugins to search both the WordPress Codex and WordPress Support forums from your Firefox search bar. Cool!

Can anyone read what this says?

On WordPress.com invites.

Content Sutra is looking for a WordPress hacker, a very high-profile job which would be a real coup for whoever gets it.

UIE has a great looking new WordPress blog called Brain Sparks.

Joe Trippi has switched to WordPress too. Hat tip: Niall.

My Blogpulse Neighborhood.

Bessamer Venture’s anti-portfolio, which is a pretty funny read. Hat tip: Jeff Clavier.

“The best zoo in the world has weblogs now.” The new San Diego Zoo blog is powered by WordPress too. Hat tip: Matt Haughey.

Odeo adds support for Microformats, which I consider to be more important than their subsequent post on funding. 🙂 More about microformats »

The buzz is Podshow got over 8 million dollars for their company. As was noted on Photo Matt before, “all of adam curry’s podshow affiliates are using wordpress across the network.” Regardless of that, I’m wishing them the best in their new venture. They have a killer board.

You should read spam and fake blogs, another problem I’ve been seeing a lot lately is entire blogs being scraped and their content being re-published with ads on it. Structured formats like RSS make this easier than before. The dark side to the numbers all the blog search engines have been toting is that a LARGE percentage of these are fake blogs, so much so that I currently block over 80% of all incoming pings to Ping-O-Matic as obvious spam. This has been a huge resource burden as well. We have around 2 million legit pings per day, do the math.

RSS Ping has launched! “RSS Ping combines RSS item metadata with site update information.” Call it Ping 2.0. 😉 See also: David’s post about it.

Standards and CSS in IE 7. No longer an oxymoron! (I know this is old.)

Came across two interesting posts today Trackback spam a nightmare and Fighting Trackback spam. Although I appreciate the praise for all we’ve done thus far in WordPress to address these problems, I think we’ve got a lot left to do and this is still an area of very active development.