It’s official now, the excellent TinyMCE has been integrated into WordPress 1.6. The real test after the search was if I could use it on a day to day basis, even though I normally can’t stand WYSIWYG-type things. With this integration I’ve actually found it more enjoyable to use and the code it produces is top-notch. Of course if you don’t like it, there’s a new checkbox to disable it under Options > Writing.

YAPOMR, or yet another Ping-O-Matic ripoff. I’m seeing at least one of these a week now. “1,004 pings served.” The road from a thousand to 268,879,563 (the current PoM count) is very rough, I wish them the best. Everyone is trying to get in this space now, but each is like an open proxy for ping spammers.

Mac Tips looks clean, has nice content, and runs WordPress. Hat tip: Geof.

Mozilla moves Firefox, other products, under for-profit umbrella, interesting, and ultimately for the better I think.

Textdrive just launched Strongspace, an ultra-secure storage solution.

Sitemeter provides stats for more sites than I could ever count, and their weblog runs WordPress. Hat tip: Richard Eriksson.

The new Dreamhost blog is powered by WordPress, of course. Hat tip: Kathleen.

Binary Book Review — Good to Great, Jim Collins: 1.

Binary Book Review — Selling the Invisible, Harry Beckwith: 1.

Binary Book Review — The Origin of Brands, Al Ries and Laura Ries: 0.

I’m going to be in Dallas this weekend for a wedding, any suggestions for things to do when I’m in town, besides avoiding melting from the TX heat?

Jason on doing what you love and loving what you do. I often disagree with Calacanis, but when he’s right he’s spot on.

At Gnomedex John Furrier interviewed me and the results are now online, John was a lot of fun to chat with. I hope we do it again sometime. PodTech.net is one of my favorite podcast sites.

You can now syndicate feeds into your Yahoo 360 page. They list WordPress as a possible source.

You can now sign up to be notified about WordPress.com. Tell your friends! First come, first serve. Thanks again to Ric Johnson for releasing the domain to us.

Weblog Wannabe is switching to WordPress. The site has won several Bloggies, usually for design.

The famous Mosaic jazz label has some amazing photography for sale though it seems a bit pricey. They do have some smaller Francis Wolff prints for $75 though.

More love from Apple.com: “IMHO WordPress is the best single user blogging system available (did I mention its free?) […] I came accross this really simple tutorial on how to use WordPress as a podcasting engine … take a look at it. What is so amazing is how easy it really is! Before you know it, you’ll have thousands of listeners, be listed in the iTunes 4.9 Podcasting Directory, and be a media darling.” We’re turning the media darling thing into a plugin in 1.6. Hat tip: Pete Quily.

Has anyone used any of EMIC’s cluster systems? I hate it when websites make you contact them to get any useful information. Defeats the purpose of the web.