From the monthly archives:

March 2008

upgraded to WordPress 2.5

March 30, 2008

Thus far everything seems to be working smoothly. All my plugins are working fine that I can see (knock on wood). The new layout and aesthetics are quite clean and nice. I also like the widgetized Dashboard. I’ll just jump in start using it and see what my thoughts are after a week.

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wavatars updated

March 26, 2008

Shamus announces an update to his wavatars plugin. However, as noted earlier, the pending release of WordPress 2.5 will likely break most avatar plugins due to its built-in avatar support. It think it makes more sense to wait for the post-upgrade version of wavatars for the time being; I still would like to see a [...]

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declaration of email independence

March 23, 2008

Michael Arrington laments the state of his inbox, and calls for someone to solve the problem of email gone wild. The problem with email is that it doesn’t scale. The solution of creating complex rules, filters, and forwards only serves to move email around but doesn’t solve the problem that it will always take a [...]

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instant blog carnivals

March 19, 2008

Aziz’s recent post mentioned how blog carnivals allow blogs in the long lonely tail to bootstrap their readership and links. He mentions his real-time Carnival of Brass as a possible improvement. This is a pretty funny coincidence since I’ve been meaning to write about a similar science post aggregator since he invited me to do [...]

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blogging for dollars

March 19, 2008

Michael Arrington advises bloggers to turn down venture capital buyouts of their blogs. I don’t think hi advice – sound as it may be for the bloggers at his level – really has any bearing on blogs in the long tail, which is of course where most blogs (and Techcrunch readers) are. While I don’t [...]

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WiFi and WiMax

March 18, 2008

At RWW, they ask whether WiFi will someday go away. I think that WiFi is in no danger of going away, but the ubiquitous web access is already on our doorstep and it’s called WiMax (everyone, chant with me: Xohm. Xohm. Xohm.) The future of web access will be 802.11n in the home and office [...]

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WP 2.3.3 does not close injection spam loophole

March 16, 2008

Over a month ago, I’d upgraded to WordPress v2.3.3 which addressed a security hole that was permitting spammers to “inject” spammy links directly into posts via xmlrpc.php, and thereby avoid the “nofollow” attribute that is automatically applied to links in comments (to deprive comment spammers of the PageRank mojo they seek). The spam was surrounded [...]

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why did MT lose and WP win?

March 13, 2008

ma.tt responds to Anil Dash by pointing out that WordPress is fully open source: WordPress is 100% open source, GPL. All plugins in the official directory are GPL or compatible, 100% open source. bbPress is 100% GPL. WordPress MU is 100% open source, GPL, and if you wanted you could take it and build your [...]

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blog CMS infrastructure

March 11, 2008

Moveable Type is making a play for WordPress users to “upgrade”, with Anil Dash firing a broadshot across Automattic’s port side. Dash makes some good points but fails to articulate a compelling reason to switch, primarily because the basic premise is flawed, that WordPress is hard to upgrade and that its architecture is an impediment [...]

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the most important droplet

March 5, 2008

With all the talk of the cloud, it’s worth noting that for every user, the single most important droplet therein will always be their own PC. Cloudware is still far from feature-rich as software running on your own machine, and of course all the important user data still resides on the home node (and is [...]

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