Luckily most of my clothes look the same when wrinkled.
SxSW Blogging Begins
Time to break out the old SxSW (South by Southwest) category again, as I depart in just a few short hours on my journey back to my home state of Texas and to Austin, a town which I love. This year is going to be very different for me than the last two because where before I was a naïve young boy sitting in the audience starstruck at all the amazing people there, and now I’m a naïve young boy sitting on a panel starstruck at all the amazing people there. So the seating arrangement has changed a little bit, but not much else. The only other difference is last year WordPress had maybe 2,000 users (tops) and now we have about 40x that.
I just got a new memory card for my camera and I’m all charged up to photoblog the entire event as I have years past, but I don’t know if this year if I can do 0-day photos as I did before, but I’ll try to catch up when I can. Even though all the cool kids will be using Flickr this year I’m going to put mine on my photolog because I don’t want to duplicate effort and use up my limited Flickr bandwidth. The tags should be fun to watch though.
Quick public service announcement: tunnel your traffic or use SSL, far too many people sniff the networks at these things.
I’m going to be on three panels this year, I’ve linked each from the sidebar and I’ll post more about each as they approach.
If you’re a Photo Matt reader or a Ping-O-Matic or WordPress evangelist and you see my please introduce yourself or say hi, I’d love to meet everyone there.
Crooked Timber
Crooked Timber is now on WordPress with close to 3,000 posts and over 63,000 comments.
Tahoe Pics
A day in Tahoe, everything from snow on the beach to blue steel to flying dirt and gorgeous rocks and water. Oh, and of course a little shameless self-promotion.
Party Blogroll
I finally updated the party entry with a partial party blogroll.
Russell on WP
Russell Beattie is moving to WordPress, great to hear!
Structured Blogging
Structured Blogging is a way to structure blog posts for reviews and such so that they can be aggregated in interesting ways. Here’s a demo of their plugin.
Ordered List Again
Ordered List switches to WordPress 1.5, I had written about the site last year when I saw it in my referrals. “The WordPress template system seems to be perfect for me. I can completely control the form, function, and presentation of my site, while leaving the core code completely intact.”
iCurve Pizza
Interesting fact: the iCurve also makes an excellent pizza box holder.
FEC Non-Scandal
Bloggers of America, chill. Great advice! Declan’s story seemed like a bit of a blogger troll.
Blogspot Spam
Matt Haughey says Blogspot is hurting America, which is silly but he probably knows that. It’s just too easy to automate the creation of Blogspot blogs. I would estimate about 4/5ths of the spam pings we get at Ping-O-Matic are Blogspot blogs, which makes them harder to filter en masse because we have thousands of legitimate Blogspot users too. Hat tip: Mark.
Love Supreme Anniversary
I can’t believe I’m going to be out of town for this concert, Branford Marsalis and Ravi Coltrane celebrating the 40th anniversary of Love Supreme. (Listen to Branford’s recording of Pursuance.)
World Bank Leader
Project Management
The art of project management by Scott Berkun is coming out next month. My quote on it is about halfway down the page.
New Gatekeeper
Eric has a new version of Gatekeeper, the very effective spam plugin that lets you quiz people before they leave a comment. Compare installing Gatekeeper under 1.2 and 1.5 to see how far the plugin API has come.
Email Encoding Considered Useful
Don’t bother with all the ultra-fancy javascript email encoders, plain entity encoding works just fine.
Blog Framing
Doc Searls on framing in a blogging article. Market statistics aren’t hard to find, just ask one of the people indexing the darn thing. (Technorati, Feedster, Pubsub, Bloglines…) To read the original article you have to register first—obviously an organization that “gets” the web.
LinkRanks
It looks like LinkRanks have been owned, dominated by something call “deai.com.”
Inline Spellchecking
Another great extension for Thunderbird, inline spellchecking checks words as you type.
Gallery: 3-5-2005
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