Our official WordPress plugin directory now lists some stats at the top, as of right now there are 1,021 active plugins and they’ve gotten 1,597,994 downloads. Wowza!
Leo Laporte
I missed it at the time, but Leo Laporte has switched to WordPress as his primary blogging platform.
Gallery: 9-26-2007
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San Francisco Upgrade Party
Foundread Public Square
Foundread, a great site for entrepreneurs from the GigaOM crew, has switched to WordPress.com from Public Square. Public Square is a CMS from Cucina Media that most famously powers the information architecture site Boxes and Arrows, which I believe was previously run on Drupal.
Blog Interview
I was interviewed on Blog Interviewer, there’s audio with a transcription.
CNET TV Live
Sorry for the late notice, but I’ll be on CNET TV at 1 PM PST.
Google Gadget Ads
Google introduces Gadget Ads, includes open caching CDN proxy. I wonder how long that’ll last?
Thunderbird is Back
Mozilla’s new focus on Thunderbird, creating a new non-profit organization to develop it and seeding it with 3 million dollars. After the previous uncertainty, this is great news.
Searching for Evil
Did you know Volvo drivers have more wrecks? This great talk by Ross Anderson covers the fascinating intersection between economics and spam. One hour.
Official Kilogram Prototype
Official prototype of kilogram mysteriously losing weight. If I was kept at a chateau in a triple-locked safe I would too.
WordCamp Melbourne and Hamburg
Adding Tags to Theme
Mossberg Ubuntu Review
Support Job
Automattic has a new position we’re hiring for.
Vote for CMS Award
Vote for WordPress in the Best Open Source Social Networking CMS Award. No, I have no idea what that category means either.
WordCamp Videos
Most of the session pages on the 2007 WordCamp site now have videos on them, taken by John Pozadzides.
The Shifted Librarian
Bug Fixers
Self Importance Test
Technosailor has an online self-importance test that tells you which “web celebrity” you are based on a few questions. I’m apparently a possible outcome but when I took the test myself I got “Jason Calacanis.”