Ambiguity. It’s the defining characteristic of this age. Yesterday offered many certainties. A secure job, stable income, lasting community…a predictable economy, culture, society. But that’s not the case anymore. Something surrounds us, permeating our worlds, defining our lives; though we call it by different names. Economic uncertainty; social instability; political unpredictability. All simply different kinds of ambiguity.
Umair Haque writes on Ambiguity and the Art of Meaning.
Ryan Boren on cruft-free URLs in WordPress: “With the next release, every link generated by WordPress should be cruft-free.” He should know, he’s been writing everything useful in the cruft-free URL space since my initial implementation.
Picked up a fresh box of reeds today. In about two weeks I’ll be in the recording studio with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra. Looking forward to it. 🙂
93,548 pings yesterday… so close! I know you guys can do better than that. The assignment for the day is to tell at least two people on your blogroll about Pingomatic.
Microsoft Expression, a free vector image tool for Macs and PCs. Hat tip: Cheryl Wise.
Rannie is in the middle of his Blogger Week pictures and today I make an appearance. Thanks Rannie. 🙂
“The XML content sink is non-incremental, so, all XML documents start laying out only after the entire content model has been constructed.” That includes XHTML documents sent with application/xhtml+xml. You just can’t win. Hat tip: Henri Sivonen.
Well it looks like I won’t be recording with the Calvin Owens Blues Orchestra in two weeks. The person I was replacing in the band showed up to the rehearsal and it turns out there had been a misunderstanding with he band leader. I’m still going to be joining the band in a few weeks, but I won’t be on their upcoming CD.
Bruce Sterling on his post-SxSW part. I was there, but now feel like I missed a lot. Hat tip: Joe Clark.
“For every McDonald’s you blow up, ‘they’ will build two. Instead of slapping a wad of Semtex between the Happy Meals and the plastic tray, work your way up through the ranks, take over the board of Directors and turn the company into an international laughing stock.”
Sounds nice in theory. But I knew corporations were more resilient than that. Sabotaging the system from inside was as much a pipe dream as changing it through politics and protest.
From Prada Revolutionaries: Confessions of a Recovering Solutionist.
The new Civicspace Labs site is up, it’s a lot easier now to tell what in the world they actually do. Nice redesign!
Battlestar Galactica is doing commentary podcasts, from the SciFi channel.
A great review of WordPress at Newsforge is up, very thorough and covers a lot of the resources at the Codex.
Podz caught the counter at 100,000 yesterday, of course the party tonight is going to be a lot of fun. We might need to call it the 105k party though.
Two big releases today: WordPress 4.2 with lots of interface improvements and emoji support, and the 3.5 release of Jetpack with a new menu editor.
Okay so it looks like the best place in terms of size, price, and location of those suggested is The Pike Pub & Brewery which sounds like a fun, laid-back place perfect for a meetup. Thanks to Scott and Jane for suggesting it. Still going to meet at 1 PM. It looks like there are going to be some great people attending, so it should be a lot of fun. Oh, and the tag for today is “wordpressmeetup“. 🙂
Stewart Ugelow writes in that “Adam Trachtenberg, eBay’s technical evangelist and author of O’Reilly’s
“Upgrading to PHP 5”, has switched to WordPress.”
Scoble got in trouble for the very long geek lunch/meetup last Saturday in Seattle. He also relates a funny story from the afternoon. We had about 15 people come and go during the meetup and it was a lot of fun — thanks to all who came out.
“The Pulse of Freedom is a site published by the protesters at Martyrs’ Square, Beirut, from a tent city.” This is an inspiring story: “A group of Web masters, graphic design artists, writers, and photographers stayed up all night for several nights in a row putting the Web site together.” They chose WordPress. “As far as I’m aware this is the first Web site of its kind anywhere in the world. The leaders of a democratic revolution are openly blogging about their experience from the center of the action.” Echoditto writes about their part in Blogging from Beirut. “I am writing this post from a tent city in the Martyrs’ Square in central Beirut, a place which is filled with the energy and excitement of a burgeoning democratic movement.” Hat tip: Mike Carvalho via email.