I just upgraded to the new 1.5.1 release by running svn up. Total upgrade time? 3 seconds. That’s hard to beat. Unfortunately updates like mine don’t bump the counter.

Scott Berkun wrote a great book on Project Management and now has a WordPress blog about being a new author. He’s doing a meetup in Sunnyvale on Wednesday which should be fun. Anyone need a ride from San Francisco? I’ve never been to Faultline.

I’m going to be following Tagsonomy the new group blog on tagging, which is built on WordPress. The tag experiments on the support forums have been going alright but I’d like to make the heat map more of a discovery mechanism, perhaps allowing time or random elements to weigh more heavily. 43 Things comes to mind. Any good code out there for this?

A Python library for working with WordPress, English info further down on the page.

Wow, 200,000. Okay, time for a new release. 🙂 We’re also trying to work with hosting providers doing auto-installs so those are counted better, right now just Dreamhost is counted.

The include page plugin lets you include the contents of any page in any place in your template. This could be used to create discrete sections of your page you manage through the posting interface, which I know a lot of people would like.

The folks behind Divx are blogging using WordPress.

Nokrev won the check-in prize for the Theme competition, sorry it was late!

Ping-O-Matic is built into Mac OS X Tiger Server coming out tomorrow (or in an update), now we just need to get into Windows. Scoble? 😉

The WordPress Mission in response to a discussion that came up a few days ago on the WP-Hackers mailing list. By the way, I hope by this time next year to have eliminated all of the WordPress mailing lists. In thinking about how they’re currently handled I started making a list of how they need better archiving, more permanent URIs, better formatting, more searchable, and basically ended up describing a blog. The mailing lists should become a distributed, threaded aggregator where anyone with a blog can participate in the discussion given they pingback the proper URIs and/or use the proper tags.

Good morning! It gets crazier — Owen left a comment saying that movie director Kevin Smith has a WordPress blog.

This is too crazy — Rosie O’Donnell of talk show fame has a WordPress blog in which she writes poetry-like entries daily that get hundreds of comments. (And the site is very snappy, this is why more and more high-traffic publishers are switching to WordPress.) It gets better — she’s also on Flickr. I feel like I just stumbled into an alternate universe where celebrities are using software I helped write. Hat tip: neiljmorrow via email.

“I’ve discovered that WP has one fatal flaw in its presentation to the world.” He caught us!

IMAP Authentication for WordPress

Angermann2 is not your typical WP weblog. Warning: bright colors.

“The vhost plugin binds a WordPress category to a virtual host on your webserver, either a sub-domain or a seperate fully-qualified domain. You can have as many such bindings as you have vhosts: just make a new category for each one. Each vhost category pair can use its own template.”