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Multiple Enclosures
Gallery: 1-14-2005
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Phil is Back
Phil Ringnalda is back! Oh, and read what he wrote about centralized subscription service. The consensus seems to be forming around the feed:
faux protocol, with the MIME camp strangely silent.
Blog Jobs
Brian Alvey is looking for blog designers and programmers, presumably to work on his Weblogs Incorporated Network. Brian is a great guy, so if you can work with him you should. (Note: This isn’t a WordPress job, they use a custom Microsoft ASP/SQL engine.)
Dennis Switches
Dennis Yang, the mySimon guy at CNET, has switched to WordPress.
Jotspot Blog
The Jotspot folks have a new blog, running WordPress. I got to meet Joe and Graham (co-founders of Jotspot, and Excite back in the day) on Tuesday and it was quite inspiring. Graham Spencer also has his own WP blog. I tried to check out Joe Kraus’s blog as well but it seems to be down with a strange Squid error.
Closed Source Risks
No Spam
By the way, I’ve deactivated all of the spam plugins I was using and I’m relying on just the new measures built-in to WordPress 1.5. So far it’s been going very well.
Blogger Lunch Photos
Photos from the blogger lunch today. Please add notes with people’s names!
Hot Barely Legal Matt
Plugin Repository
Announcing the WordPress Plugin Repository, since the announcement I’ve been adding dozens of new plugins and developers. This is Open Source development and collaboration at its best.
Apple Announcements
Well the Shuffle and mini look pretty rocking, and both seem absolutely something I’d want to by. The Shuffle fits my listening habits pretty well and the mini looks like it could make a pretty swank gateway server for my living room. (I have a big beige box running Gentoo in there now.) Hook up two big external drives and you’re good to go. In other news, the official Apple WordPress Student blog has been pretty busy lately. When the story about it first broke there wasn’t a whole lot of content up there, but now it has filled out nicely.
Gallery: 1-11-2005
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New PunBB
PunBB is the forum software I recommend most people use, and they just released a new version. They are, as far as I know, only the second system to release a table-less thread view. (The first being wp.org/bbPress.) They took a different approach than I did, and if you view the source it’s actually pretty heavy markup, but this is putting valid forums into the hands of many more people. Looks like an excellent release. Hat tip: Alex.
Keep Your Resolutions
Videora
Videora is like podcasting for video, using Bit-Torrent. Om just interviewed the creator of it. What I think is neat is it works without needing a special element (like <enclosure>
) in the RSS, which incidentally means it works with non-RSS2.0 syndication formats as well. It doesn’t need any new formats, and works today. This is how I think other aggregators that support rich media will evolve, it’s podcasting without the hassle on the publisher end.
The Weather
It is definitely a stay-at-home and drink-hot-chocolate kind of day here in San Francisco. And I’m totally okay with that. Now if only I could get the 64-bit Windows installation disk to recognize my SATA controller, life would be good. I’m not a fan of Linux for desktop usage yet (I’ve tried it about once a year for 4+ years now) but I might be pushed in that direction, ironically, because of better hardware compatibility. This might be easier if I had a non-USB floppy drive, but I’m not inclined to go out in this weather just to get one.
Raptor Drive
The WD Raptor drive got here yesterday, now all I need to finish up this new workstation is to pick a motherboard/CPU combo. (And get matching memory.) Can’t decide whether to go P4 or Athlon 64.
Merlin Mann
I met Merlin Mann last night at the Creative Commons party last night and even saw the hipster PDA in action. Pretty neat stuff, I may even make the 43 Folders meetup on Tuesday Wednesday, but first I should probably finish up GTD. (I’ve never gotten to Part Three, which may speak for itself.)