The Podcasting session by Adam Curry just finished up, it was interesting but I get the impression that they’re needlessly complicating things by recreating constructs that already exist in HTML. Wifi is terrible, I’m connecting through my cell phone and I’ll try to blog everything through that. I do have a few of the tiny WordPress stickers so if you want to show your WP pride here at the conference drop by and ask me for one. Dave Sifry tried to mention Technorati when he had the mic and got smacked down, so I’m going to avoid mentioning WordPress myself (even though it is and will always be totally non-commercial) but I think it’s free for other people to bring it up. Anyway, MJ is going to smuggle me in some nutrition so I better get back to that.

Bloggercon dinner was a lot of fun. It was incredibly noisy coming in, apparently bloggers like to talk. Who knew? Met a lot of new interesting people and a old buddies. I’m never going to remember all the names. I came up with Cheyanne and MJ which was fun. Carpooling is excellent, espescially with such beautiful people. Finally met Dave as well, albeit shortly, and he offered a few words on enclosures. I’m sure there’ll be much more talk on that this weekend. I had someone compare me to Dave the other day, I guess because we both have done blogging software, have strong opinions, and my site can look a bit like Scripting News when there are lots of asides.

I’m going to be at Bloggercon this weekend and at the dinner tonight. If you will be too, drop by and say hello, I’d be happy to chat about any of the things that are underway right now.

Check if comments come from an open proxy, an excellent way to stop the recent spam attacks some have been experiencing.

How did you name your blog?

ZDNet now has a bunch of blogs, including a few in partnership with Corante. Excellent.

I was on Paid Content, that’s pretty cool. I’ve never met Rafat Ali in person but I’d like to now that we’re in the same state.

Feeling the WordPress-ure, and liking it. Glad to have you onboard! The site is looking good. Why not go the last step and start using slugs instead of IDs in your URIs? I subscribe to Jay’s newsletter.

This is too sad for words. But I only say that because I wish I was there for it. 🙂

WordPress is Pro-Nudity! (Safe for work.)

Carthik writes that Weblogs.us, a blog hosting service, is switching users to WordPress. The founder says in a comment “WordPress first impressed me when I converted 1,100 entries from my home built CMS to WordPress and then 1,700 more posts. Since that initial test I have been immensely impressed with WP’s capabilities, but even more so by the wonderful community that surrounds WP.”

Magpie, the best RSS library for PHP, is now WordPress powered. It’s a small world; I was just putting some Magpie code into WordPress today.

Thanks Jon, I’ll give you a call next time I’m in Austin.

Whatever happened to Kinja? I’m still looking for an aggregator, on any platform, that can take my blogroll from WordPress and autodiscover all the RSS URIs.

A few months ago I posted a copy of a moving image that got over a thousand comments before I closed the entry.

Planet WordPress, just an experiment. Any WP-related blogs I should add? I had MooKitty on there but her feed has an ad that always stays at the top.

I walked with the Leias tonight through the Castro. Props to Heather, Derek, MJ, Dinah, and three others for representing Leias in style.

Steve Gillmor is back and on WordPress at ZDNet. Here’s his RSS 2 feed, for Marc.