Tiger and Ping-O-Matic
Ping-O-Matic is built into Mac OS X Tiger Server coming out tomorrow (or in an update), now we just need to get into Windows. Scoble? 😉
Kanoodle Klicks
Kanoodle has a big click fraud issue. Might be a problem for TypePad users.
WordPress Direction
The WordPress Mission in response to a discussion that came up a few days ago on the WP-Hackers mailing list. By the way, I hope by this time next year to have eliminated all of the WordPress mailing lists. In thinking about how they’re currently handled I started making a list of how they need better archiving, more permanent URIs, better formatting, more searchable, and basically ended up describing a blog. The mailing lists should become a distributed, threaded aggregator where anyone with a blog can participate in the discussion given they pingback the proper URIs and/or use the proper tags.
Image AdWords
Google AdWords Editorial Guidelines for Image Ads, I think it’s interesting they still call the image ads “AdWords.”
Kevin Smith
Good morning! It gets crazier — Owen left a comment saying that movie director Kevin Smith has a WordPress blog.
Rosie O’Donnell
This is too crazy — Rosie O’Donnell of talk show fame has a WordPress blog in which she writes poetry-like entries daily that get hundreds of comments. (And the site is very snappy, this is why more and more high-traffic publishers are switching to WordPress.) It gets better — she’s also on Flickr. I feel like I just stumbled into an alternate universe where celebrities are using software I helped write. Hat tip: neiljmorrow via email.
Da Vinci Crock
German Wikipedia on WP
The German Wikimedia site looks like it’s running on MediaWiki but is actually on WordPress. Hat tip: Andrea.
WordPress CMS
Corante Recoups
After the Fall addresses the Ev/Corante problem I mentioned the other day. I’m making a point to link this because the blogosphere only seems to link when things go wrong.
ML Baseball Blogs
MLBlogs.com Fouls Out — are blogs over?
XHTML Friends
XHTML Friends is a site doing some very interesting visualization of XFN data across the blogosphere, though it’s dataset is pretty new. Remember adding XFN info to anyone in your blogroll is simple as a couple of checkboxes, so you have no excuses! It would be great if XHTML Friends was the first service to suppor the “me” value for aggregating disparate identities. Some may have noticed that Technorati profiles now sport the “me” XFN value. I wonder why? 🙂
Ken Ham Blog
I tend to link to the more liberal organizations using WordPress because that’s what I hear about, but WP is becoming popular on all sides of the spectrum, which is fine by me. Stephen Steele wrote in that famous creationist Ken Ham has a blog now. He’s also video- and podcasting.
IMAP Auth for WP
WordPress Theme Dissection
Phat FAT
Fade Anything Technique gives you the smooth “yellow fade” popularized by the 37 Signals crew. Check out this technique as well. We should roll one of these into WordPress, I can think of several situations where it’d be useful.
angermann2
Angermann2 is not your typical WP weblog. Warning: bright colors.
Vhost Plugin
“The vhost plugin binds a WordPress category to a virtual host on your webserver, either a sub-domain or a seperate fully-qualified domain. You can have as many such bindings as you have vhosts: just make a new category for each one. Each vhost category pair can use its own template.”
Versioning Plugin
A beta versioning plugin for WordPress, very cool. Been wanting something like this for a while. Tracks all the changes you make to an entry and allows you to revert to an older version if necessary.