Darwin on Web 2.0: “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” — Charles Darwin
I [heart] WordPress
Some folks on the WordPress.com forums have come up with some really wacky I [heart] WordPress logos.
Packt CMS Nomination
If you have a favorite open source CMS, consider nominating it for the Packt Open Souce CMS award.
On Tekzilla
I was on Tekzilla Episode 92, interviewed by the lovely Veronica Belmont.
Our Tail
Someone had asked me about traffic patterns on WordPress.com the other day and whether or not they followed a "long tail." I knew the answer was yes, and I guestimated the numbers from memory at around 80% outside the top 10 blogs. It's actually a little more acute: 92.63% of the traffic to WordPress.com is for blogs outside of the top 25. (About 8.4 million pageviews in the past week.) This is from Google Analytics, so doesn't include RSS or anything like that.
Yodel Anecdotal
Yodel Anecdotal is the new official Yahoo blog, powered by WordPress.
SxSW Panel Voting
SxSW has opened up panel voting for 2007, similar to how we did for WordCamp. Have they done this before? I've got one proposed called "Scaling Your Community."
Google Markup
Google Strict vs Google Deprecated, where the size of the homepage is reduced using standards-compliant markup. I’m guessing this isn’t a religious issue, just a personal one with whoever owns that code at Google.
Ensight Business Cards
Jeremy Wright’s Business Cards say “powered by WordPress” on the back.
At Web Apps Summit
I’m here at the Web Apps Summit,one of the few folks online thanks to EVDO. The presentations have been really great thus far, and they only look like they’re going to get better. The venue (Palace of Fine Arts theatre) is really big, there must be 500+ people here.
Design Matters
Robert Accettura writes in that Lenovo, makers of the Thinkpad, is now blogging on WP. (And it’s surprisingly good.) Check out this post on their keyboard drainage system.
New Simplenote App Updates for iOS, Android, and Mac, some nice iterations. Update: Simplenote for Android was just highlighted by The Verge as one of the best Material design apps.
New Lows?
I just took a job in exchange for pink chocolate chip cookies. Did anyone else miss the boom years? Just kidding of course, for Christine I would do it even for Macadamia nut.
New VaultPress Security Scanning
New VaultPress security scanning, scans all your core files to make sure they’re kosher.
PingOMatic
Pop the champagne! Ping-o-Matic has broken a million pings in the two weeks or so that we’ve been counting. Keep the pings coming. 🙂
Oil prices have fallen by about half since June, making it much cheaper just in time for drivers to fill up their cars for Christmas travel. But the decline in oil prices has had made no perceptible difference on the cost of flying.
New York Times: No Relief for Air Travelers.
Austin Smith at Mediashift talks about Why It’s Risky Business for Publishers to Build Their Own CMS.
XFN Graph
XFN Graph is a tool that you give a URL and it then spiders all the XFN relationships and shows them in a neat graph/map.
WordPress Lessons
WordPress Lessons on the Codex are looking good, in fact the entire Codex is becoming a fantastic documentation resource. Kudos to Lorelle for kicking these off.
Drupal 4.6
Drupal 4.6.0 is out and has some very cool new features, not the least of which is it’s joining the generation of new publishing tools that ping Ping-O-Matic by default. 🙂 Congrats to the Drupal team on the release.