Michael Krotscheck has an interesting post called Friends don’t let Friends use TypePad, which apparently ruffled some feathers and elicited a pretty venomous response from a Six Apart Vice President. I guess is part of their new plan to “compete” but statements like “TypePad simply blows WordPress.com away on SEO” and “On WordPress.com, you’re kind of moving into a bad neighborhood — by their own admission, one-third of the blogs on WordPress.com are spam” don’t exactly lend credibility. Michael responded eloquently in a comment and then again in a follow-up post. Lloyd has jumped in with some specific facts on Typepad’s (lack of) SEO. In the meantime we just turned on sitemaps for everybody on WordPress.com, a popular user request.
Category Archives: Asides
Social Networking Sanity Check
Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check, from GigaOM.
Seth’s Email Checklist
Seth’s Email Checklist. “Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure.” Amen!
New BuddyPress Theme
A preview of the upcoming theme for BuddyPress. Be sure to click through to the full-size versions. BuddyPress is coming along nicely, and a good example of what is possible with the WordPress platform.
Speaking at Start Conference
Jeffrey Veen and Bryan Mason are putting together a very interesting conference called Start. It’s only $200 and the morning format is short-form interviews with interesting people, and somehow I slipped in there. Mark the date — August 7, 2008.
Whuffie Interview
I was on The Whuffie Factor, an interview with Tara Hunt in anticipation of her new book. I’ve already pre-ordered Tara’s book, you can do so too on Amazon.
Linux Journal Cover
I was honored to be on the cover of Linux Journal this month in an article by Katherine Druckman. Pick up a copy in your local enlightened bookstore or magazine shop. The article is available online to LJ subscribers here.
My Twitter
People keep asking me if I have a Twitter, the answer is yes. I don’t use it too frequently, so I won’t flood your stream if you add me. Weblog Tools Collection also published a list of 31 WP folks you can subscribe to on Twitter.
WordPress Stats for MT
Kindle Podcast
Matt Mullenweg Loves His Kindle, from a chat I had with Mashable. Posting from Greece, where it’s hot.
On WordPress Weekly
I was on WordPress Weekly last Friday, mostly answering questions.
WordPress Party!
Health.com Switches
Health.com switches from Typepad to WordPress and adds two main WP-powered sections to their site. Check out their new site, great design too.
Usability Testing
We’re doing some usability tests in New York City, want to join?
WordPress + mod_auth_mysql
mod_auth_mysql and phpass, a new patch that allows Apache authentication (for Subversion, Trac, enterprise integration systems) to work with the new WordPress secure password storage.
12 Signs
Community Tagging
Foxmarks Beta
The new Foxmarks beta works with Firefox 3 and seems pretty solid. Check out Foxmark’s WordPess-powered blog.
Kyle Skips OpenID
5 reasons I won’t be getting on the open id train, by Kyle Neath. Animated comment thread.
WordCamp Milan
I’m leaving tomorrow for Milan where I’ll be attending WordCamp Italy. Hope to see some of you there!