The Software is Wrong, Not the People by Joe Flood about the DC meetup the other day.
Link Archives
The FCC just released their first plugin for WordPress (a faceted search widget) and writes about why. Does your organization have a cool plugin you’ve written but not released yet? I know we do. Hopefully they will get the plugin in the repo soon.
Memeburn has a new interview up: The future of WordPress: Q&A with founder Matt Mullenweg.
What Exactly Does Jarobi White, the Mysterious Fourth Member of A Tribe Called Quest, Actually Do? He has a WordPress blog, for one. 🙂
Check out this amazing story of a black macaque monkey that picks up a photographer’s camera and takes self-portraits.
Richard MacManus asks Is More Zen, Less Plus The Way to Go?.
Joseph Scott has written pressfs, a WordPress filesystem. Cool!
Mark Jaquith writes WordPress local dev tips: DB & plugins.
{EAV_BLOG_VER:c967aa2d93c7cb18} Mark Maunder writes Can WordPress Developers survive without InnoDB? MyISAM vs InnoDB benchmarks.
The Selby goes with Pharrell Williams at Home in Miami. Explore the rest of the site, this is actually one of the less-interesting galleries.
Gopher dead, blogging lives. “If blogs are dead, what are we reading in Instapaper?”
How To Run A News Site And Newspaper Using WordPress And Google Docs. This is why I love saying “scripting is the new literacy.” A bit of scripting glue can tie together Big Projects like WP and Google Docs to create something completely novel.
Gamasutra: Greg McClanahan’s Blog – Achievement Design 101. Long article, but worth getting through. I’ve had it in Instapaper forever.
WordPress Publisher Blog: Influential Weekly The New York Observer Migrates from Drupal to WordPress. Cool!
Every 60 seconds on the web there are 50+ WordPress downloads and 60+ new blogs created. Hat tip: Andrew Nacin.
I may be overstating the case, a little bit. Very probably, you’re sick to death of hearing social media disrespected by cranky 51-year-olds. My aim here is mainly to set up a contrast between the narcissistic tendencies of technology and the problem of actual love. My friend Alice Sebold likes to talk about “getting down in the pit and loving somebody.” She has in mind the dirt that love inevitably splatters on the mirror of our self-regard.
Johnathan Franzen’s Liking is for Cowards in the NY Times.
Tomorrow I’m going to be speaking at ZURBsoapbox in Campbell, California at noon. If you’re in the Bay Area please come out and say howdy.
The Internet measures everything. And I am a slave to those measurements. After so many years of pushing much of my life through this screen, I’ve started measuring my experiences and my sense of self-worth using the same metrics as the Internet uses to measure success. I check my stats relentlessly. The sad truth is that I spend more time measuring than I spend doing.
Fantastic read over at Tweetage Wasteland : I Don’t Care if You Read This Article. Or put another way “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” Hat tip: Mark Riley.
Joel Falconer has written a pretty definitive article on WordPress: The Free Software With a Big Economy & How You Can Get Involved.