I finally got a chance to read through Attention.XML that Tantek has been bugging me to look at for a while. It’s a lot like OPML except more verbose and I don’t have any toolkits that work with it easily. On the other hand it has some excellent ideas with regards to extensibility and I could see supporting this for something like updating WordPress’ link times, if it could be done elegantly. Groups are a little confusing, but I just read on the Technorati list they’re cleaning that up. I’m going to their holiday party later with Cheyanne so I hope to learn more.

Peter Saint-Andre thinks there are some cool integration possibilities between Jabber and WordPress and I’m inclined to agree. I’m “jabbering” now, on the development mailing list, and reading through the specs, so we’ll see what comes of it.

UsableType looks interesting and runs WordPress, though you have to dig to their about page to find that out. Hat tip: Chris.

Review of the WordPress forums. It seems that most people either love or hate the forums, we’re working on addressing every single question more.

A professor at Northwestern is going to be experimenting with blogs and installing WordPress for her students. Very cool.

This portfolio doesn’t look like a blog but was done entirely in WordPress, not even using the new features from the upcoming 1.3.

I just found out the WordPress ebuild for Gentoo was grabbing the files off of Sourceforge instead of the standard download method that lets me collect cool stats. Installing WordPress on Gentoo is just a matter of typing “emerge wordpress” and those people weren’t being counted before. Currently the zip version is downloaded about two and a half times more than the tar.

Things I need to blog before I forget: (1) Cocoa gui for SSH tunnelling — profiles, status menu (2) Mac OS X port of myTunes redux (3) Replication plugin for WordPress — plugin file captures _POST/_COOKIE headers and replicates to an array of other installations, allows WP to be massively redudant and scalable with only commodity shared hosting.

Michel points out that WordPress is now a one-click install on one of France’s largest ISPs.

The Zeldman on Kinja isn’t the real Zeldman. Of course we’re all making the problem worse by googlebombing blogging the faux Zeldman.

WordPress 1.2.2 is available with some bug and security fixes. Get it while it’s hot!

Oh no, someone went and did it, a somewhat crude blogging shirt parody site. They’re sparing no one, as evidenced by their Screw Template Tags WordPress spaghetti tank. I have no idea who’s behind this. Note: If you want real WordPress swag, we do have an official store.

Is it? Could it be? It looks like the new Hivelogic is running on WordPress. That’s too cool.

As has been reported many places, and sent to me in a dozen emails, Dreamhost have integrated support for installing and upgrading WordPress through their administration interface. For many this is not new, some systems like Fantastico have had support for auto-installing WP for a while now, but the interface was cluttered and WordPress was just one of several dozen miscellaneous scripts. What’s really interesting about this decision is their thought process, quoted from their newsletter:

Why didn’t we make it so you could just install Movable Type itself with one click instead? Somewhat because Movable Type is a commercial product, and they would require us to do some sort of weird registration for all our users with them in order to even install the free version. Also, WordPress doesn’t require “rebuilding” your blog every time you publish. Mostly though, installing WordPress was eleven times easier for us.

Tyler Brekko sent me screenshots from the entire installation process, including emails from the “Happy DreamHost WordPress Robot” and it’s kinda neat. They take advantage of a few structural decisions in WordPress and on wordpress.org to make the process very smooth. You can read a bit in their knowledge base. What surprised me the most was the sheer number of people who emailed me about this, DreamHost must have a ton of users. Here are some other posts around the web about this:

• DreamHost Excels
• @ Switch Case
• @ What Do I Know

Thanks to everyone who wrote in about this!

Jeremy Boggs wrote in to point me to this very neat blog where each entry is a scanned page from a Moleskine notebook.

Blogsome is a new free blogging hosting service based on WordPress. See also: Blogthing, WP Blogs. Any others I’ve missed?