Webzine is this weekend and looks like it’ll be a blast. It’s only 22 bucks (!) but I heard they might sell out so it’s worth ordering your ticket online soon. I’ll be on two panels, Making Media with Open Source Tools and “Blog Wares Dance Off,” the latter of which I promise not to dance. (Too much.)
Company Soul
The Soul of a New Company, is a hard thing to capture.
5 Party Killers
5 things that killed your party, from the inimitable Mr Mann.
Stop Spam Better
Got enough testers for now. Thanks! I’m looking for a few people who do (or used to) get a lot of comment spam who are willing to turn off all of their other spam prevention methods and try a new plugin I’m testing out. Drop me a note on my contact page with details about your blog and how much spam you get. I’ve been dogfooding it for the past few weeks and it’s been working great.
Newsforge WP tutorial
Web design and administration with WordPress, from the fine folks at Newsforge.
Weblogs Work for VCs
Weblogs Work switched a VC site to be entirely powered by WordPress, a first as far as I know. Obviously some bright and forward looking guys, and it’s nice to see they’re in Texas where WordPress got its start.
Hidden Gem
Some of the funniest original content on WordPress.com has been coming from Mike of Because the World is Round, it’s worth checking it out and reading through the archives.
Meebo IM
Meebo is IM Chat 2.0, and in the tradition of many Web 2.0 ventures they have a WordPress blog. Hat tip: Derkilicious.
Get Into Google Blog Search
Want to get into Google’s new blog search? “The easiest way to do this is via pingomatic, which can ping more than a dozen popular pingservers, according to Goldman.” Thanks Jason! Read more…
WordPress Hooks
Web Service Finder
Web Service Finder, a cool idea.
Value of Community
Robert Young writes on Inherent Truths and the Value of Community. Highly recommended.
Poetry is Microsoft
Has Microsoft stolen WordPress’ tagline? (Note: I’m sure someone in 1970 probably said “Code is Poetry” at DEC or something. 😉 But it has been the WordPress tagline since day 1.)
New Dashboard
Blogs on WordPress.com have a new dashboard which highlights the community content more.
Google 767
Larry and Sergey say: “We’re still indy, we share our jet!”
Simon on Dvorak
Simon Willison is switching to Dvorak. I switched years ago and haven’t looked back since. People claim it’s a hoax, but they haven’t used it over a period of years. My QWERTY chops are still pretty good too, mostly thanks to the Treo. It’s not hard doing both, it’s just like learning a new musical instrument.
Entrepreneurs
In the Astrodome
Jacob Appelbaum is blogging his travel to Houston and beyond as he does all he can to help those affected by Katrina.
Katrina Metasearch
Yahoo has done a Katrina people metasearch, possibly the most useful thing anyone in the tech community has done thus far. Yahoo just went up several notches in my book.
Feng Shui Office
Lifehacker tells us how to set up a Feng Shui office space, I think I break all of these.