Moving from blogger to wordpress 1.5: A (very) detailed step by step look at moving your prolific Blogger blog to WordPress. I know there are lots of tutorials out there, but the attention to details of this writeup really caught MY attention.

WP Theme: Retrospotive Just like it sounds, a bluish and whitish retro theme for WordPress 1.5 Just add a splash of red, green and yellow to make it Austin Poweresque!

Searchable Social Network: Do you use your blog as your social network and a place to collect, communicate and disseminate information inside your social network? Read through Pete’s interesting voyage of discovery (and the possible birth of a new social networking product). I had to really pay attention to understand the concept and I still might be way off mark!

New guide aims to keep bloggers safe from pink slips: Examples include the cliche’d ex-Delta and Google employees. This guide comes from EFF and wholeheartedly suggests doing everything in your power to preserve anonymity.

Picaweb Picaweb is a php application to help you to easily put pictures galeries on the web with the help of Picasa 2 to generate the pictures and thumbnails. Picasa2 has an xml web gallery export option. Picaweb will parse this xml and render the html pages on the fly (with Smarty http://smarty.php.net). Dynamic Web albums on the fly from picasa 2? Thanks Forever Geek

If anyone here is running Adsense on their own site/blog, could you please check something for me? Run last month’s totals using the “Aggregate” data. Then run last month’s totals using the “channel” data (considering that you have URI channels setup, which I do) These numbers are wildly different for me. I even went through and checked my total earnings and compared them with the two results and sure enough my earnings were recorded and paid with the “aggregate” data and not the channel data. These two values have never been different for me for the last year or so that I have run AdSense, barring March and now April and that makes me really confused. Am I seeing this wrong or am I losing money?? I have written to AdSense support, but I never have had stellar luck with them. Considering the difference in the two amounts, I would […]

Here is the link to the WordPress Plugin and Mod Competition Blog. The aforementioned blog will contain all announcements for the Plugin Competition and I encourage all entrants to register and post about their plugins.

PluginWiki anyone? This is the official WordPress Plugin Competition Repository of information and documentation. Please be considerate, this wiki will be actively monitored. Expect the PluginBlog to follow soon (in a day or so). In keeping with the philosophy of sharing, I encourage each and every participant to register in the PluginBlog and post often. They should keep their audience (the WordPress Public) well informed of their plugin goals, provide lots of links back to their blogs and generally blog about their plugins and the competition.