There are WordCamps brewing in Melbourne in Australia and Hamburg in Germany. Cool!
Adding Tags to Theme
Mossberg Ubuntu Review
Support Job
Automattic has a new position we’re hiring for.
Vote for CMS Award
Vote for WordPress in the Best Open Source Social Networking CMS Award. No, I have no idea what that category means either.
WordCamp Videos
Most of the session pages on the 2007 WordCamp site now have videos on them, taken by John Pozadzides.
The Shifted Librarian
Bug Fixers
Self Importance Test
Technosailor has an online self-importance test that tells you which “web celebrity” you are based on a few questions. I’m apparently a possible outcome but when I took the test myself I got “Jason Calacanis.”
Pownce XFN
Nerd Attention Damage
I would like to award the prize for the Most Damage Inflicted to the Geek/Nerd World in the Past 5 Years to Michael Lopp, author of the seminal Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder in 2003. No article more effectively romanticized an inability to do one thing at a time, and do it well. On the bright side, Digg and Bloglines should probably give him stock. Need an antidote? Spend 10 minutes collecting everything you need to work on a problem, and unplug the internet for 2 hours. You’ll finish in 30 minutes.
Confession
I’ve been using IE7 quite a bit lately. It’s a darn-good browser and seems very fast, especially when I have a lot of tabs open, compared to Firefox.
On Labor Day
Should poetry be open-source?
SUNW to JAVA
Now that Sun has changed their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA, here’s ten other companies that should change their tickers. By the way, Om was just named one of the 50 most influential Indian Americans.
Digg Effect Deconstruction
The Digg Effect: A Deconstruction, with a WordPress blog of course.
WordPress Malaysia Logo
Malaysia is celebrating 50 years of Merdeka and Avijit made these cool WordPress logos to celebrate.
Browser Stats
I’m at An Event Apart in Chicago and Eric Meyer just said that browser statistics were “worse than useless.” More specifically, the only browser share numbers that matter are the one for sites you run, not what the web at large uses. Here’s our browser breakdown from 115 million visits to WordPress.com:
- 62.46% – Internet Explorer, sub-breakdown by popular request
- 64.10% – Version 6.0
- 35.17% – Version 7.0
- 0.28% – Version 5.5
- 30.74% – Firefox
- 3.83% – Safari
- 1.78% – Opera
- 0.52% – Mozilla
Just for fun, the operating system breakdown:
- 90.36% – Windows
- 6.73% – Macintosh
- 2.19% – Linux
- 0.03% – PlayStation Portable
Vanilla News!
Good news! The links in Vanilla that brought the rats out defending them have now been removed by Mark at Lussomo. I applaud this decision to break the text link contract they were in and to put my money where my mouth is I just donated a thousand dollars from my personal account to the project.