New formats called RSS that don’t work with anything else, specifically referring (I assume) to the “RSS 1.1” effort. (Where RSS stands for RDF Site Summary.) The name of RDF Site Summary is a mistake in the first place, they should take this new development effort as a chance to correct it. (Also, publishers are getting tired of supporting the format du jour. Maybe it’s “easy” for aggregators to support the latest permutation, but the last thing I want to do is bloat WordPress with support for Yet Another syndication format. Four is enough.)
Category Archives: WordPress
Blake Ross
Blake Ross, who is on the cover of Wired next month, a new WordPress blog. Hat tip: Alvin W..
San Francisco Meetup
So the plan is today Saturday at 2 PM at the Chaat Cafe on 3rd and Folsom we’ll have a WordPress late lunch for all the people in the area who are interested in the latest and greatest in weblog software. It’s not a meetup proper but should be fun nonetheless.
Scoble on WordPress
Robert Scoble’s new linkblog is now running on WordPress. “Uploading is TONS faster now!” Glad to be of assistance.
Dallas Meetup
Ryan is doing the WP meetup in Dallas tomorrow. I’ve been busy at work and forgot that was this weekend, I think we’re too late to do the official Meetup thing but I’d be willing to meet some San Francisco WordPress people for coffee tomorrow afternoon.
Louisiana WordPresser
Web log Meetup group searches for members.
“I’d rather blog than talk on the phone,” he said. “I’ll blog four or five entries a weekend. I’ll just sit there watching movies or listening to music and spend about 10 hours (blogging). Just whenever the mood strikes me.”
Harley WordPress
I just heard that Harley Davidson is going to be using WordPress internally. Groovy!
Blog Jobs
Brian Alvey is looking for blog designers and programmers, presumably to work on his Weblogs Incorporated Network. Brian is a great guy, so if you can work with him you should. (Note: This isn’t a WordPress job, they use a custom Microsoft ASP/SQL engine.)
Dennis Switches
Dennis Yang, the mySimon guy at CNET, has switched to WordPress.
Jotspot Blog
The Jotspot folks have a new blog, running WordPress. I got to meet Joe and Graham (co-founders of Jotspot, and Excite back in the day) on Tuesday and it was quite inspiring. Graham Spencer also has his own WP blog. I tried to check out Joe Kraus’s blog as well but it seems to be down with a strange Squid error.
No Spam
By the way, I’ve deactivated all of the spam plugins I was using and I’m relying on just the new measures built-in to WordPress 1.5. So far it’s been going very well.
Plugin Repository
Announcing the WordPress Plugin Repository, since the announcement I’ve been adding dozens of new plugins and developers. This is Open Source development and collaboration at its best.
Apple Announcements
Well the Shuffle and mini look pretty rocking, and both seem absolutely something I’d want to by. The Shuffle fits my listening habits pretty well and the mini looks like it could make a pretty swank gateway server for my living room. (I have a big beige box running Gentoo in there now.) Hook up two big external drives and you’re good to go. In other news, the official Apple WordPress Student blog has been pretty busy lately. When the story about it first broke there wasn’t a whole lot of content up there, but now it has filled out nicely.
New PunBB
PunBB is the forum software I recommend most people use, and they just released a new version. They are, as far as I know, only the second system to release a table-less thread view. (The first being wp.org/bbPress.) They took a different approach than I did, and if you view the source it’s actually pretty heavy markup, but this is putting valid forums into the hands of many more people. Looks like an excellent release. Hat tip: Alex.
Slashdotting
When I saw Giga Om at Jay’s lunch yesterday he happily informed me that his site, which is now on WordPress 1.5, handled Slashdottings two days in a row and all of the traffic from the LJ/6A story without a hiccup. I asked if he was running Staticize which increases the performance of WP significantly and he said no. (!)
WordPress Planet Back
The WordPress Planet aggregator is back, though it still needs a better design.
Livejournal and Xanga
LivePress is “a Live Journal compatibility and synchronization plugin. It is designed to let WordPress users continue to use their Live Journal accounts with minimal hassle. It adds support for moods, music, synching posts between WordPress and Live Journal accounts and implements the lj-user and lj-cut tags in WordPress.” Then there’s Croissanga, which provides similar functionality for Xanga, another journaling site with millions of users that is frequently overlooked. Hat tip: Wordlog.
LinkRank Smackdown
According to PubSub, I am suddenly much, much less popular. Was it something I said? Fortunately this has no correlation with my actual traffic. Hat tip: Weblog Tools Collection.
Trackback Spam
The flood of truly vile Trackback spam today sadly confirms what I was worried about months ago: if we lock down commenting (with things like WP Hashcash and Typekey) it’ll just push them to Trackback. All the captcha in the world won’t fix Trackback. Our last line of defense is the content-based filters like Spam Karma, Spaminator, and Three Strikes.
WordPress App of Year
Mike and Clay wrote in that WordPress has been named Web Application of the Year by ArsTechnica. Wow, that’s quite an honor for the entire team.