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Support Geoff in Blogathon 2005: Geoff is participating in Blogathon 2005 to make 48 posts in 24 hours to support the Blood:Water Mission which is seeking to bring HIV free blood and clean water to Africa. Please visit that post to make a pledge for Geoff or to directly donate to the Blood:Water.

Just a reminder for all the winners to email me (mark at wltc dot net) with your Paypal email address so I can send you your winnings if you haven’t done so already. Please put “Wordpress Plugin Competition Winner” in the subject.

Also, a heartfelt thank you to all the judges, supporters and well wishers for their involvement.

I think the people that promote anything also bear the responsibility of doing so ethically. One bad apple in a basket makes the basket look really terrible. I was TREMENDOUSLY DISSAPPOINTEDthis afternoon to receive comment spam on my blogs for getfirefox.com. If asked, I would have promoted the site free of charge (and as a matter of fact, have done so on many occassions including this one). The author was Nicolegrants Kidman (IP: 203.130.233.100 , quiksurfer1.telkom.net.id). If Asa or anyone else from the Firefox team reads this, I hope that they can take the necessary precautions to make sure that this does not happen. I strongly urge promoters to be really, really careful of their methods.

Maybe I was a little jumpy with my conclusions. This very well could have come from “legitimate” (if there is such a thing) spammers trying to get their details approved and Firefox.com really has no way to control this. A spammer professing to be from firefox, microsoft or any other site might not necessarily be promoting that site but be hiding under the guise.

I apologize for the libel and take it back after some thought. I hope that this spam was really not from or for Firefox.com

Wordpress makes Forbes Best of the Web:

BEST: Community of users. If you have a question, either check the documentation wiki (to which anyone can contribute) or ask at the support message board. We had an obscure question answered within an hour.

*Happy Dance*

Thanks Incorporated Subversion and PhotoMatt

From a reader:

We’re looking for a plugin for wordpress that will bypass the need to use the “more” tag to break long posts.

In short, what we’d like is something like what is available with Moveable Type, which has two input boxes for each post an author makes. If the author types in both boxes when making a post, the break in the post appears at the point between the two boxes.

We haven’t been able to find anything like this that works with the Word-style text editor. Do you know of anything that we could use for this? Unfortunately, our bloggers aren’t the most tech-savvy, so we’re trying to reach a solution even SIMPLER than the “More” tag.

Please email me if you have a solution or would like to work on one. I will pass it on.

I have finally put together all the information that I have received from the judges for the Wordpress Plugin Competition and here are the results:

• Most Innovative Plugin Prize goes to Jack Born for Static Jack- $80
• Most Outrageous Plugin Prize goes to Sam for Multiply- $80
• Best Code in a plugin goes to Alex King for Popularity Contest- $80
• Best Documentation for a plugin goes to Montie for LMB^Box Comment Quicktags- $80
• A consolation prize goes to Nik for Kramer- Flickr Pro Account

The Weblogs.us prize winners are:

• BOTD - $250 Andy Skelton
• Extract Terms - $250 Denis de Bernady

Overall Winner of the Plugin Competition is Skippy for authoring Vhosts and Secure Login. He wins a brand spankin’ new Sony PSP from WeblogToolsCollection.com (or $270, whichever he chooses).

Congratulations to all of the participants and especially the winners. Please contact me at mark at wltc dot net to claim your prizes. The money will be Paypalled to your account (or I can mail you a check) once I get a confirmation from you.

Stay tuned for the beginning of the next competition with new rules, new submission guidelines/programs and much stricter entry and judging regulations (I know, I learnt a lot from this one). Starts in again around August and will run six months at a time.