Jon Udell: The CAPTCHA game: Why CAPTCHA is not yet a good solution for human verification. PS: CAPTCHA is a kind of short form for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart” Via: Figby

User Comments Plugin: Only allow commenting on your blog from registered and logged in users. This plugin requires a WordPress version of 1.3 or above, does not work with 1.2. Via: ScriptyGoddess

WordPress Fast Frontend: A few people still think that WordPress dynamic page generation is slow and choose to tweak their code to make page generation faster. WordPress Fast Frontend is one such endeavor. As a side note, this blog is relatively high volume and I use no such tricks or hacks (not even Photomatt’s staticize) and I see no need for any either. However, if gaining a few milliseconds is your game, try out the WordPress Fast Frontend.

MSN Readies Blogging Service for Japanese Market: I sure would like to see what they are doing with blogging and how Microsoft plans on intergerating blogging with Passport and Windows.

Weblogg-ed – Using Weblogs and RSS in Education: More weblogs in education. I cannot help but see a lot of good things coming out of educational (and intra-corporate) blogging. Please send more links my way if you see any.

Announcing the immediate availability of Persian 1.0 for WordPress 1.2.   Persian 1.0 is based on the previous layout of my site which was very well received by the WP community.  Persion 1.0 is currently for WordPress 1.2; a 1.3 theme version is coming soon. Read the rest here: Persian 1.0 announcement.

I am calling it a Post Rating Plugin until I can think of what I really want it to be called. I have created a plugin that allows your readers to vote on each article you publish on your WP blog.   It does loads more than that, but since I have already wrote up a pretty lengthy article about it on my site, I won’t reproduce it here; go over and read it for yourself. I am looking for beta testers at the moment, so if you would like to give it a whirl and give me some feedback leave a comment or pingback on my site.

FotoBuzz: Like the way Flickr does their annotations and would like to incorporate them in your own weblog? Take a gander at Fotobuzz. Ecto has instructions to work with Fotobuzz on their blog.