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 […]
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WP Theme: Langshott Two column, greenish, well formatted and graphicsful theme for WordPress. Via Email XeroCool
[Continue Reading...]WP-Dash : With widgets API WP-Dash is a complete dashboard replacement plugin for WordPress. It features a full API for third party widgets as well as some wicked cool ones out of the box. All the widgets are drag and drop and well. Anyone have any experience with this? If this plugin does a half job of what it professes, it is pretty darn cool. Thanks If..Else
[Continue Reading...]WP Theme: Pink Winter Two column, large header, flowery (dark) pink theme for WordPress by john Hesch, formerly of Blogging Pro fame.
[Continue Reading...]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
[Continue Reading...]Konfabulator Now Free Thanks to Yahoo!
[Continue Reading...]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.
[Continue Reading...]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 […]
[Continue Reading...]Broadband Networking Via Human Skin You could transfer digital images from your camera just by touching the PC while the camera is hanging off your neck. Like-wise music from an MP3 player in your pocket could be easily transferred to your wireless headphones without any need for cabling. Wow, imagine the possibilities and the headaches. Cooties!
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