TrackBack and Pingback supported by CNET News.com, this is the official announcement. (You heard it here first, of course.) I think the UI for this on their site is a little funky, but this is a huge step for news media.
In Boston
Okay so I’m finally here in chilly Boston, living it up. I’m open to recommendations on places to eat, things to do, and people to see. (Besides the Boston WordPress Meetup this Saturday.)
Case for Ping-O-Matic
Okay you’re blogging or writing a weblogging tool, you can ping 41 services today and who knows how many tomorrow, or just lock in rpc.pingomatic.com and worry about more important things. Also I wouldn’t recommend pinging all of those services indiscriminately as some are for specific niches (blogs in German or Japanese for example) that your blog might not fit into. Don’t pingspam.
Feedster Support in PoM
Announcing Feedster Support in the -matic.
Derek Joins Technorati
Derek joins Technorati as Senior Designer. I’ve heard rumors the new Technorati.com will be black and have a giant orange T.
Gallery: 11-22-2004
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Gallery: 11-21-2004
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WysiwygPro
WysiwygPro is a WYSIWYG textarea replacement that claims to be XHTML 1.0 compliant and cross-browser. Might be a good basis for a definitive plugin or feature in WordPress. I hear Typepad based theirs off HTMLArea which I guess works but I’m not comfortable with the code that produces.
Gallery: 11-20-2004
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More Blue Skies
It’s been a gorgeous day today, highlighted by a mini-picnic with Heather, Richard, Tantek, and [forgot name] in Yerba Buena park for lunch. I’ll leave you this Friday with Ella’s version of “Blue Skies”. For extra credit compare it with Robert Glasper’s rendition.
Hypo-Allergenic Cat
Get your own hypo-allergenic cat today. “The mission of ALLERCA is to produce transgenic lifestyle pets and develop new technologies in the various disciplines of animal life sciences.”
Bnet Leadership Blog
Apparently Bnet also has a blog thing going on WordPress called Leadership Now. Looks interesting if you’re into that sort of thing.
Best Software Essays
Best Software Essays of 2004 over at Joel on Software.
Gallery: 11-19-2004
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WordPress in Technorati
The Technorati cosmos for wordpress.org is finally working again and reports 94,678 links from 43,489 distinct sources. It’s also really, really fast.
Lycos Europe
Boston Meetup
I’m going to be in Boston for the WordPress meetup this month. My plan is to hit every city that has one eventually. 🙂 Free copies of WP to anyone who shows up, and I’ll bring stickers too.
Tripod Sweden
Carthik pointed out to me this thread that says Tripod in Sweden is offering one-click WordPress installs.
Jonathan Schwartz on WordPress
Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, is doing a WordPress powered blog over at ZDNet. It has comments enabled too, something he said before wouldn’t happen. Bing!
Changes.xml
The Weblogs.com/changes.xml, used by hundreds of update services and tens of thousands of bloggers, is now password-protected. Not sure what this means. Update: False alarm! It seems to be back to normal now.