Why does Oxo Goodgrips stuff come in the standard awful impossible-to-open plastic packaging armor. It hurts the brand. That’s what happens when you don’t pay attention to detail.
Microsoft CodeCamp
I’m still in Vienna, but this Saturday morning I’ll be at Silicon Valley CodeCamp speaking on How to say no. My Mom would be so proud. Extra: my keynote from Blogtalk is online at Google video. You may or may not be able to tell, but I was fighting keeping my eyes open (it was 5 AM for me). Next time I speak overseas I’m going to factor in an extra day ahead of time to adjust my sleep fully.
Cardinal Blogging
Robert Accettura wrote in about this story about a Boston Cardinal starting a Vatican blog. Here’s the blog. As a Catholic, I find this trend toward transparency pretty fascinating. How long before the Pope has a blog?
Protect Rails with Akismet
Geek Business Myths
Gallery: 10-3-2006
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Blogtalk Presentation
If you’re interested, the slides from my Blogtalk talk are online. The conference has a great program today that I’m looking forward to. I was hoping to get some Vienna pictures today, but right now there is the heaviest fog I’ve seen in my life. (Vienna is like the San Francisco of Europe.) Perhaps it will clear as the morning goes on.
Gallery: 10-2-2006
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Good Morning Vienna
I’m in Vienna through Thursday for the Blogtalk Reloaded conference. If you’re a WordPress user please come up and introduce yourself, I have stickers. 🙂
AIM Light
Wikipedia Spam
Sometimes I’m amazed at how much manual labor the Wikipedia uses. For example, how long can this type of spam protection go on before it becomes overwhelming?
Gallery: 10-1-2006
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FOWA Presentation
I’ve had quite a few people request my presentation from the Future of Web Apps summit. I’m not sure why, since my slides were pretty minimal and (I hope) the meat was in the talk itself, but if you want them anyway here they are as a 7.5mb PDF.
Bloglines Update
I’m a few days late on this, but I think the new Bloglines updates are really slick, they’re subtle but they really improve the usability of the product. Bloglines is my favority aggregator, online or offline, and I admire the restraint they have. It would be easy for them to add every possible feature, instead they keep things simple and, since January, fast. Simplicity is far harder than complexity. Especially in a big organization.
Trickle Theory
Trickle Theory. Long, but worth it.
Crazyegging
I was crazyegging for a few days, here are the results: WordPress.org home page, WordPress.org support, WordPress.com forums, and for fun, the Photo Matt homepage.
New WP JP book
Looks like there is a new Japanese WordPress book out, cool! I hope it says good things. 🙂 BTW, you can buy the WordPress 2 Visual Quickstart guide in most Apple stores. I must admit it was surreal to run into WordPress in an Apple store.
Business Week Best
People have been telling me that Business Week named WordPress the top of the best blogging tools of 2006, which is pretty sweet. I haven’t picked up the magazine yet, but this link is the closest thing I can find to the list on their site.
WordPress.com VIP
Typepad Splogs
I just wanted to give a quick kudos to the Typepad folks for being one of the best in the industry when it comes to dealing with splogs. Since they’re a paid service I don’t come across splogs on Typepad very often, but when I do their support is easy to contact, very responsive (I had a reply from “Carla” within 3 hours), and they obviously understand the problem and how to deal with it.