More CNET news today, downstairs they seem to have a new logo going on. It’s a half swoosh.

More reviews are coming in, “Cleaner code, faster execution, and maybe it’s just my imagination but I actually detect a hint of lemony freshness too. Seriously ecstatically happy with my blog since running WordPress and it has been trouble free and effortless (as a blog should be). If you’re thinking of putting one up and joining the Jones’, I recommend it highly and if you’re thinking of switching I heartily encourage it.”

Is Simon finally going to switch? We already use his excellent XML-RPC library.

The Appel Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center has an awesome ambient sound system that sounds acoustic and full from every point in the 500-seat room.. Hat tip: Niall.

Another great review: “This version brings back the pleasure to blog. […] Are WordPressers the only ones having all the fun these days or what?”

Some businesses are capitalizing on the Gates

Call the media bluff on HD.

TextDrive is doing another hosting for life deal.

Announcing the Ping-O-Matic Global Network, a global and redundant array of servers providing Ping-O-Matic service and APIs.

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.

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.