WP Plugin: Disclosure Policy Well written plugin with lots of help and documentation to help you disclose financial, copyright and other relationships/disclosures on your WordPress blog.

WP Plugin: Lifestream Create a stream of stuff that you publish online at various publishing resources. This is a modification of the original LifeStream by Chris J. Davis and new features include pluggable, auto-detectable data sources, disk caching and RSS, Facebook and Flickr API integration. Also, you can add new sources using the data structures within the Plugin.

This recent trend of almost DOS like spam floods is really starting to tick me off. Akismet seems to be doing its job but the BOT just keeps asking for wp-comments.php even though it is not allowed to post a comment. The IPs, as usual, are very different in each query and the attacks have all the signs of a new bot farm with a new script that just does not want to take no for an answer. Now before I write something myself, is there a plugin out there that gleams off IPs from commenters that are getting refused (for posting too often, or as spam from akismet) and then appends them to your htaccess? I know something existed for Akismet and htaccess but I also rememeber it being very touchy. I might whip something up this weekend. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

FeedCount Chicklets Hack Change the text inside your FeedBurner Chicklet with a very simple change of script. Simple and effective. Thanks kbCafe

Since there have been only six entries in the Blogging Essay Competition and I have received numerous requests to extend the competition due to the holidays (my MBA professors are being extremely kind as well), the Essay Competition deadline will be extended. Last date for sending in an entry to the competition is the 14th of January, 2007. If you are sending in an entry and it needs to be formatted with bullets and paragraphs, please do me a favor and copy and paste the HTML into a text file and attach it to your email. In addition, if anyone is willing to sponsor the competition or add some money/gifts the <sarcasm> already huge pile of prizes </sarcasm>, it would be much appreciated. Just send me an email if interested. For those interested in metrics, approximately 10,000 people have viewed the various entries in the competition and about 120 votes […]

WP Plugin: jsPgnViewer If you are an avid chess player, this might just be up your alley. Use this plugin to post your chess game (via PGN) to your blog so your readers can interactively play along.

WP Plugin: WP e-Commerce Lite WP eCommerce Lite is a full featured shopping cart plugin for WordPress with a whole world of features. The latest version 3 Beta has a whole list of new features including better shipping options, purchase log RSS feed, multiple payment options, product options and use of Lightbox. Dan also offer a paid Gold version for those looking for even more advanced features.

2006 Web Technology Trends An essay on web technology trends with some large generalizations, some major points and some minors thoughts from McManus. Whenever I see an article like this, I would also like to see some revenue numbers associated with each entry. Though Google was mentioned quite a few times throughout the article, there was no mention of Google’s stock prices or its market cap (which I think are very valid). Also, it would be very interesting to create a heat map of this article to see which phrases/names/buzzwords were used the most in describing tech trends in 2006.