WordPress Comment Verification with a simple human verified token

WordPress iTunes Plugin: Post currently played song from iTunes on your WordPress blog.

Building blog traffic for newbies: Basic writeup but good if you are new to blogging and would like to get the name of your blog out there.

Digital Web Magazine – Matt Mullenweg

What Makes A Great Weblog? from UrbanMainframe.com: Peoples’ perceptions of what makes a good weblog are very interesting to read especially if you disagree with some of them. Here Jonathan claims that weblogs are not about Standards Compliance, Accessibility, Tables (or the lack thereof), design, posting frequency or features. Contrary to his claims, I would say that all of the above are quite important though to a varying degree. His examples of simply designed, good blogs says to me that he is comparing simplicity of aesthetics with complication in a design. A design can be as simple as just text on a page, and still be a very elegant and semantic page that is well designed. Tables are yucky unless their use is extremely well justified. Period. Posting frequency is important. A stale blog, is a slow blog which creates a snowball effect. You post less, less people visit your […]

Apple has added a new students section: and there is a subsequent Student blog powered by WordPress! 🙂 Via: EyeOnMac

reBlog goes 1.0

Services to Ping: A large list of services to ping from your weblog to get noticed some more. Note: More pinging services = slower posting to your blog.