Scoop! Download.com Blogs, half a dozen weblogs from the software site we all know and love. Disclosure: I work for CNET but I was not directly involved with this project.

macosxhints reviews WordPress, 8 out of 10 stars. “The admin interface to WP is wonderful; it’s amazingly simple…” Hat tip: Adam Johnson via email.

WordPress Polyglots

“If you love your readers, set them free” — a quote out of context.

A four part series on using WordPress as a Personal Information Manager. “I’ve spent the last couple of weeks setting up a personal database of favourite poems, book quotes, short author bios and related links. I had previously shoehorned my poetry collection into a Keynote file, but then wanted something more flexible, customizable and expandable: a database.” Interesting use of custom fields.

My favorite word to write when doing T9 on my cell phone is “going.”

The Eggcorn Database is a novel use of WordPress for something that isn’t a blog at all. A great testament to the flexibility of 1.5.

Quentin Template for WordPress. Hat tip: Weblog Tools Collection.

Snap, the search engine from Bill Gross with some novel ideas, has a snappy weblog which has some interesting items about the creation and growth of a new search engine. Very cool.

Michel has an Anagram Interview with me.

WordPress 1.5 upgrade party on Tuesday. I had originally planned for it to be Monday, but forgot about that whole Valentine thing. If you want to host an upgrade party in your area, let me know!

Why upgrading MySQL 4.0 to 4.1 is a royal pain, from a MySQL employee.

We don’t talk about that

It looks like CNET has an aggregator called Newsburst. I dig the name, but I don’t think it was intended to be public yet. Is it just me or does it seem like bloggers get all the scoops these days? Disclaimer: I work for CNET but I don’t speak officially in any way, and I’m not affiliated with News.com team that did Newsburst. (Though I think John Roberts is a cool guy.)

Technorati has finally updated the cosmos for WordPress and it’s showing 74,931 incoming blogs right now. That’s about 30,000 blogs more than the last update.

I would recommend reading Jenna Pfister’s great review of 1.5. I’ve been working with the 1.5 codebase so long now that I’ve actually forgotten some of the new features—I may use this article when writing the release announcement. Hat tip: My WordPress dashboard via Feedster.

I’m looking for someone to work closely with on a few interesting projects and I thought my blog would be a good place to find the best and brightest. It is paid contract work, and could keep you busy for a few months. Experience with WordPress is a must, and being in the bay area is a strong plus. Email me if you’re interested and include links to any WordPress plugins or other code you’ve written.

This is funny because I just saw Zoolander again on Monday, but Models.com has a new WordPress blog which features—you guessed it—lots of models. Looks great. I found the site because they made a donation to WordPress.

43 Things’ word on the Salon story, on their blog of course. (Powered by Textpattern.) “I guess we have faith that the blogosphere will get the story straight even if Salon distorts it.” Update: They’ve removed the bit I quoted! I don’t know what that means.

My Ta-da List down again, and I’m faced with the fact that it’s a Monday and everything I need to do is on that list. I’m reminded why I distrust hosted services. I don’t want to be upsold to Basecamp, I just want a simple online service to manage my tasks.