Many-to-Many: Open Source Innovation Practices: Some norms such as the right to fork, open participation and self-organizing contribution strengthen this opportunity and provide models for consideration beyond software development. When a project can be forked, it provides a balance against poor management (albeit at a cost) and fosters a leadership style that lets other express ideas and have them be heard. Leadership forms the core of a social network of innovation, being an arbiter of information and quality outcomes. Open participation is essential to innovation, to bring in new people with new ideas. By self-organizing I don’t mean some high falutin’ emergence, but the simple freedom for people to choose where to contribute based on their expertise and personal motivation. Some good reading there from Ross Mayfield. Some rambling on, but some very good insights.

WP Plugin: DI.FM Playlist Put a “last played” playlist from Digitally Imported Radio on your WordPress blog. I can voich for d.fm, I listen to them all the time!

Six Apart integrates weblogging tools into Adobe Go Live CS2: Now thats putting blogging into the mainstream. Palettes of tools that allow designers to create Type Pad and Movable Type templates have been built into Go Live CS2 I wonder how much SA had to pay to get this done?

Rrdtool Server Statistics: Since some people have show interest in using Rrdtool that I had mentioned in the previous post, here is a good tutorial and example on how to use it and customize it for your own use. I have written my own scripts to interface into the Round Robin Database and collect and store information. I am using some of the code from the PHP display files mentioned in this tutorial. If you do end up using their code, please find a way to say thank you to the author.

Understanding Blog Speak: The blog herald has a semi-complete list of phrases, acronyms and terms used often in the blogging world. Most programmer types will be really familiar with the terms here but casual bloggers might benefit from a quick glance. The list is being compiled by Duncan Riley and he is looking for more submission, corrections etc. I think we should have a WordPress Speak wiki page.

WordPress 1.5 Options Page Plugin Bug: This bug is with regards to plugins and options pages created by plugins. Thanks for pointing this out Alex and yes, the idea is to use the right solution, regardless of this bug when coding for the plugin competition. In other words, consider this bug to be fixed in the version of WordPress that will be used to test the competition plugins.

What a difference a simple cleanup and optimization makes! If you are using PhpMyAdmin, follow these simple steps (after safely backing up your data). Click on the database you are working with on the left hand side frame (not the table, the database name) On the right hand column your tables should be listed. Scroll down till you see the “Check all” link. Click on that link, make sure all database tables are checked and then from the dropdown next to it, carefully select “Optimize table”. This should perform an analysis, repair and an optimization of your database. Most problems will be solved with this. In rare cases you might have to rebuild indices, but thats a huge topic, too dangerous to perform without looking at individual cases and thus I will not preach it here. (My database corruption was one of those rare cases) Please backup your data before […]

WP PLugin(s): GaMerZ Prolific WordPress hacker Gamerz has updated all of his plugins to work with WordPress 1.5. Lots of fun and useful plugins including WordPress 1.5 Stats, WordPress 1.5 WAP, WordPress 1.5 Poll, WordPress 1.5 Page Navigation, WordPress 1.5 Print, WordPress 1.5 E-Mail and WordPress 1.5 Users Online