Apparently Bnet also has a blog thing going on WordPress called Leadership Now. Looks interesting if you’re into that sort of thing.
Category Archives: WordPress
WordPress in Technorati
The Technorati cosmos for wordpress.org is finally working again and reports 94,678 links from 43,489 distinct sources. It’s also really, really fast.
Lycos Europe
Boston Meetup
I’m going to be in Boston for the WordPress meetup this month. My plan is to hit every city that has one eventually. 🙂 Free copies of WP to anyone who shows up, and I’ll bring stickers too.
Tripod Sweden
Carthik pointed out to me this thread that says Tripod in Sweden is offering one-click WordPress installs.
Jonathan Schwartz on WordPress
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, is doing a WordPress powered blog over at ZDNet. It has comments enabled too, something he said before wouldn’t happen. Bing!
Changes.xml
The Weblogs.com/changes.xml, used by hundreds of update services and tens of thousands of bloggers, is now password-protected. Not sure what this means. Update: False alarm! It seems to be back to normal now.
Pete on WP
Pete Sheerin, yes that Peter Sheerin of ALA and Pete’s Guide fame, is investigating using WordPress for his site. How did I find this out? He registered for a bug tracking account, I guess he’s about to report some bugs. Can’t wait. 🙂
Guaranteed Misspellings
I can never spell “guarantee” right, I always end up googling it. Maybe if I blog it I’ll be able to remember. Other words that I consistently mess up: “separate,” “Wednesday,” and “bourgeoisie.”
Spambot Stopper
I’ve been testing out a spam plugin that has been very effective. You can get Spambot Stopper on the WordPress support forums. It’s very simple, for more advanced protection check out the Combat Comment Spam page on the Codex.
WordPress Themes
Anatomy of a WordPress Theme from Ryan the rockstar.
WYSIWYG Plugin
Another WYSIWYG plugin for WordPress. I think we have three now.
Reger
Reger is a blogging system with different types of logs for every activity from running to what clothes you wore. It basically lets you attach certain types of data to posts and then graph it out. What’s neat is something like this could be implemented as a plugin for WordPress using custom fields.
Core Values
Mary Hodder’s session on Core Values of bloggers is pretty interesting. They’re discussing trust and identity online, also editorial integrity and money. Excellent moderation. People who happen to be vendors can still give valuable feedback. For example, Brendon Wilson works for PGP, but he had something valuable to offer to the conversation about encryption that wasn’t tied to his company’s product or any specific vendor. I think everyone here is smart enough to smell a demo, as someone said earlier. Lunch was very interesting, talked a lot with Matt Shobe from Feedburner. The list: democracy, attribution, transparency, innovation, personalization, accessibility, honesty, creativity, who people are, editorial independence, connectedness. Bad: power law economics, lack of attribution, anononimity (good and bad), whuffie-hoarding, links for money.
Podcasting Session
The Podcasting session by Adam Curry just finished up, it was interesting but I get the impression that they’re needlessly complicating things by recreating constructs that already exist in HTML. Wifi is terrible, I’m connecting through my cell phone and I’ll try to blog everything through that. I do have a few of the tiny WordPress stickers so if you want to show your WP pride here at the conference drop by and ask me for one. Dave Sifry tried to mention Technorati when he had the mic and got smacked down, so I’m going to avoid mentioning WordPress myself (even though it is and will always be totally non-commercial) but I think it’s free for other people to bring it up. Anyway, MJ is going to smuggle me in some nutrition so I better get back to that.
At Bloggercon
I’m going to be at Bloggercon this weekend and at the dinner tonight. If you will be too, drop by and say hello, I’d be happy to chat about any of the things that are underway right now.
More ZDNet Blogs
ZDNet now has a bunch of blogs, including a few in partnership with Corante. Excellent.
WordPressure
Feeling the WordPress-ure, and liking it. Glad to have you onboard! The site is looking good. Why not go the last step and start using slugs instead of IDs in your URIs? I subscribe to Jay’s newsletter.
Pro-Nudity
WordPress is Pro-Nudity! (Safe for work.)
Weblogs.us on WordPress
Carthik writes that Weblogs.us, a blog hosting service, is switching users to WordPress. The founder says in a comment “WordPress first impressed me when I converted 1,100 entries from my home built CMS to WordPress and then 1,700 more posts. Since that initial test I have been immensely impressed with WP’s capabilities, but even more so by the wonderful community that surrounds WP.”