As much as I dig it seems on LinkedIn you can add connections with amazing ease, but I have not been able to find any place in the interface to remove a connection.
Category Archives: Asides
Amazing Roots Video
Typepad Switches Atom
I think that Typepad may have just switched it’s Atom feeds from .3 to 1.0. How do I know? Because two blogs I read just popped up with 10 new entries (none were new) and each one was broken in Bloglines. (Which is the single largest aggregator in the world, at least according to WordPress.com feed stats.) Here is Seth Godin’s as viewed by the feed validator. This is a bold move, but I certainly wouldn’t want to be their support department tomorrow. This could also just be my misunderstanding, as some feeds like this one from Marginal Revolutions (one of my favorite blogs) seems to be on Atom 0.2.
Developer Manipulation
WordPress CrazyEgg
CrazyEgg is a pretty cool service that tells you where people are clicking on your web page. By far, the coolest feature is the “heatmap” doppler view of your page, which they overlay over a snapshot taken when you start the click tracking session. I’ve been running it for a few days on the front page of WordPress.com, here is a screenshot of the results. Next I’m going to try it on our signup form. And wouldn’t it be cool for the WP write page?
Funding Warning
Just a warning for entrepreneurs out there, if you ever announce funding you will be contacted by people offering the following services: banking; debt financing; PR services; other VCs; fancy SoMA offices; telephone services; India outsourcing; Kansas IT outsourcing; recruiting (x10); equipment leasing; renting/leasing/buying real estate; stories about Audrey Hepburn; web analytics; bandwidth; data communications (?); Java programming. Expect 50+ emails in the first 12 hours, and a steady trickle after that. They will also send emails to firstname @ your domain for every name they can find on the website. It gives you a newfound appreciation for those nice Nigerian banking folks, who gave you attention before you were “big.”
Speaking at SDForum
I think I forgot to blog this before, but tonight at 6:30 I’m speaking at the SDForum Startup SIG in Palo Alto. Should be a fun event, so if you’re in the area come on out. Update: Here’s the event on Upcoming, for my friends who don’t do anything unless it’s on Upcoming. 🙂
Akismet for Movable Type
We’ve released a Akismet for Movable Type plugin and the response from testers thus far has been very good. John Battelle blogs about it here: Akismet for MT: Death to Spam. Also check out this post by Jeff Nolan. “I was spending up to 45 minutes a day cleaning it up.”
OpenID for WP
Boston Herald
Dave Cohen wrote in that the Boston Herald is using WP for their Red Sox blog. Digging around it looks like they have quite a few blogs going.
Shaved
I shaved my head. Just trying out something new.
General Comments
For the funding post, if you have any questions post them there, and if you have any general comments post them here.
Long Term Capital
Remember Long Term Capital? Comparing the darling of Wall Street to Google. There have been a ton of great books written about LTCM.
Mesh Conference
Toronto was so nice, I'm going to head back for Canada's Web 2.0 conference, aka Mesh. It's a really underrated city.
Mark Pilgrim Back
Open Source Legal Docs
Not technically open source, because I don't know which license is best for regular text, but I just put a Creative Commons Sharealike license on the WordPress.com terms of service and Automattic privacy policy. People were stealing them anyway, might as well make it legit. 🙂 Feel free to grab bits and pieces and search/replace your company/project in. If you want to throw us a link as a thank you, I'd be flattered.
User-Generated Content
Why People Aren’t Using Your Website
Next Generation CMS
WordPress + Textpattern = WordPattern. 😉 (Big kudos to the Textpattern folks.)