A couple people have asked about my thoughts on the Six Apart redesign — I think it’s fantastic, they did a really excellent job. A great example of a modern and attractive website using semantic HTML. It reminds me I should take a look at sIFR again.
Tool Marketshare?
Elise’s look at weblog tool marketshare is interesting if not the most accurate. I’d much rather see numbers from someone who could programatically actually determine what blogs use, like Technorati or Feedster. Anyway I tried to follow along in the audience and typed “wordpress.org” into Google, which gave me a helpful page with “link to” and “contains term” links, which I assume is Elise’s methodology. Link to returned 288,000, as is in her chart, but contains term gave 674,000, which is radically different than the 5,000 she attributed to WordPress. I sent a note suggesting she look at this number, to which she replied to Google for www.wordpress.org, which I did. The “contain this term” link returned the even more modest “Results 1 – 10 of about 981,” so obviously the chart should be updated to 1 instead of 5 immediately.
Baby Name Chart
Cosmos Plugin
Jonas has a Technorati Cosmos plugin which is kinda neat. I think it may have the wrong approach though, here’s how a really nice Technorati plugin would work: watch the site cosmos feed for incoming links, if the link isn’t to the root use the same code we use for Pingbacks to determine what post it’s linking to, if one at all, then check if the incoming link already exists as a Trackback or Pingback, and if not insert it into the comment table chronologically in line with the rest of the comments. (And send a notification email.) Cosmos should work transparant of other forms of commenting. Bonus points if it works with referrer data too, call it “remote-comments.”
Party Pics
Some pictures from the party last night, the first I’ve seen so far. People didn’t clear out until almost 3 AM, I’m still recovering. I also ended up with an extra Powerbook, which I’m sure someone will claim. 🙂 I heard the Flickr tag will be upgradeparty. Technorati tag: upgradeparty.
Party Music
Music for the party tonight? Ellington of course, playing with and compisitions by Billy Strayhorn.
Dougal on 1.5
Dougal on WordPress 1.5. Several people have asked if “Strayhorn” is a poke at Longhorn. Nope.
1.5 Review
Another review of 1.5, good overview of dashboard and template enhancements.
New Logo
More CNET news today, downstairs they seem to have a new logo going on. It’s a half swoosh.
Party Update
It’s rainy and chilly, but the party is still on in full force. I updated the entry with some frequently asked questions. I’m really excited about some of the folks coming out, it’ll be a great mix. Perhaps some of the writers can help me with the 1.5 release announcement. *duck*
Download.com Blogs
Scoop! Download.com Blogs, half a dozen weblogs from the software site we all know and love. Disclosure: I work for CNET but I was not directly involved with this project.
WordPress Review
macosxhints reviews WordPress, 8 out of 10 stars. “The admin interface to WP is wonderful; it’s amazingly simple…” Hat tip: Adam Johnson via email.
Multi-Lingual Development
Love Your Readers
“If you love your readers, set them free” — a quote out of context.
WordPress PIM
A four part series on using WordPress as a Personal Information Manager. “I’ve spent the last couple of weeks setting up a personal database of favourite poems, book quotes, short author bios and related links. I had previously shoehorned my poetry collection into a Keynote file, but then wanted something more flexible, customizable and expandable: a database.” Interesting use of custom fields.
T9 Tip
My favorite word to write when doing T9 on my cell phone is “going.”
Eggcorn Database
The Eggcorn Database is a novel use of WordPress for something that isn’t a blog at all. A great testament to the flexibility of 1.5.
Quentin Template
Snap Weblog
Snap, the search engine from Bill Gross with some novel ideas, has a snappy weblog which has some interesting items about the creation and growth of a new search engine. Very cool.