Placeblogger: Local Blog Aggregator Blog aggregator designed to focus on a particular area. Someone referred to it as a MySpace for your town. I could barely find anything for my local area but it is new. I know that this idea has been floated around for a while and there was even a GeoURL Mashup somewhere. Lots of big name advisors on the project.

Web 2.0 Acquisition Bait WordPress is number 7 on Wired Magazine’s Web 2.0 acquisition bait.

WP Plugin: MengTracker Show the links clicked by your visitors, the exact clicking place of the links (page and region of your site), and the clicking time with pretty charts.

WP Plugin: WP-Ban Ban Users By IP Or Host Name From Visiting Your WordPress Site. Quick and handy method to prevent certain users/bots from accessing your blog. I’ve been doing this using .htaccess so far.

Six Improvements to Your Blog @ Lifehack has a few tips to “build a better bridge between blogs and their readers”. Includes displaying contact info, enabling open comments, formating text and paragraphs and using Tags and Linking.

WP Plugin: Podcast Release Creates a Podcast Release page on your site with customizable Release Text for acceptance by guests. Useful for Podcasters, esp. those conducting interviews.

As you must have noticed, Weblog Tools Collection now has a new theme. It was custom designed by João Craveiro. We have tried to retain some of the familiar look and feel but also increase usability and visibility of the most commonly used features of the blog. The redesign is still a work in progress and if a much used/loved feature is missed, please let us know. Related posts have been moved around to a more accessible spot, fonts are bigger and bolder, ads are tucked away as neatly as possible, archives are redone and further polish will be applied soon, the menu page has shed its excess junk, the search form has moved to the top right hand corner, there is a new AboutMe page, number of comments on posts are more visible and the comment form is modern and displays moderated comments. The original design for this blog […]

WordPress Theme Bundle for TextMate Easily build themes for WordPress with Textmate and this theme bundle. According to the author it is fairly inclusive and has everything from basic structural snippets to menu based database references. Downloads are from SVN and the author is open for suggestions and offers of help. Thanks CarpeAqua