North South East West is a “view of climate change” and a pretty compelling site to explore. What’s interesting is the entire site is done in WordPress, which seems to be gaining a lot of traction in the non-profit sector. Hat tip: Rob Bevan via email. From the developer: “We used WordPress more as a CMS than a blogging platform, and although there is some chronological content, mostly we’re using static pages, with commenting. 1.5’s theme system really allows developers to fundamentally change what a WordPress site can be, without making changes to WordPress itself… but you knew that already! Thanks for a great platform. We’re going to use it for a whole bunch of other projects from now on.”

Keith is learning WordPress and looking for some pointers, already some great resources have been pointed out in the comments so read those before adding anything.

WordPress has the most blogging market share in Switzerland, above even Blogger. Maybe that’s where the WordPress World Tour should go next. 🙂

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!