I made the Open Media 100 list under “Toolsmiths.” Not too many surprises on the list. Thank you to everyone who nominated me. When I see these things I always think “Now I have to really work hard to live up to this hype.” So, back to work. 🙂

Niall finds some holes in a GoDaddy press release about blogging. I have a ton of domains with them, but their blog actually scares me a little.

New York was a blast, but now I’m all the way on the other side of the country in chilly Seattle. There are apparently quite a few conferences going on here this week so booking a hotel was a nightmare, the selection was very limited, but on the plus side I ended up on one of the top floors of the Sheraton and the view is great. Gnomedex looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun and have a ton of good information. We’re going to do a WordPress BoF or party or open source bar or something, so put your name on the list on this page. I didn’t get to meet a whole lot of people in NY because my schedule was so tight, so hopefully I can catch up in Seattle.

Jon Lech Johansen famously known for cracking several DRM systems (DVD Jon) is blogging with WordPress. Hat tip: Tim Hong.

Rachel Speight has passed away, she was a remarkable friend when I knew her and an inspiration. Here is a better article about her life.

So it looks like Saturday is going to be too crazy to do a meetup on that day, but there is going to be a joint party with Lifehacker and Nick Denton on Tuesday night at 7 PM. If you’d like to go please send me an email and I’ll reply with the details.

The WP-Plugins.org developer plugin repository now has over 300 registered plugins. Time to get that directory going!

Chris wrote a nice tutorial on podcasting with WordPress, which is delightfully short.

Tikun Olam Moves from Typepad to WordPress and tells the story of the experience. Hat tip: Pujiono.

phpOpenTracker is an OS framework for tracking website traffic that looks like it has some interesting features. Anyone else have any favorites for tracking stats?

Rico is another open source AJAX library whihc has some nice demos. Hat tip: Jeff Veen.

Comparing the ad relevancy of Google AdSense & Yahoo Publisher Network ads

So I’ll be in New York City (for the first time) from June 18th through the 22nd for the Collaborative Technologies Conference. The trip looks like it’s going to be really busy, but if there’s enough interest I’d love to do a WordPress meetup on Saturday or Sunday. Leave a comment if you’re in the New York area and would be interested in getting together.

Jeremy Zawodny says “the more I play with WordPress on a couple sites I run, the more I’ve realized that it just feels right.” That made my day. 🙂 Hat tip: Ozh.

Is this picture of Bay area bloggers going to be the Harlem photo of a new revolution? It was nice of KRON-4 to host the event, and I got interviewed for a short while about a few things — hopefully the footage makes it somewhere.

I just changed my SpamAssassin user_prefs file to have score ALL_TRUSTED 0 and it’s been helping a lot with the spam that’s been getting through.

Watching Mr and Mrs Smith today I learned that the doors of a Sub-Zero are bullet-proof. Handy!

WPMU can use WordPress themes. I think there will be some nice MU developments in the next month or so. 🙂

I wonder if one of these is actually comfortable, if it would work with my chair, and if I would be shunned from the non-geek community if they ever saw it.

BlogSavvy, which I’ve been enjoying lately, asks Why on earth would you want a website? “This time round that hadn’t even popped into my mind… of course I was going to use WordPress to put it together, why would I waste my time and expend my energy on doing it any other way?” James really “gets” a lot of topics.