Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, October 2004: Much like “State of the Union” address, but this time from Technorati’s Sifry. Interesting statistic from the article: A new weblog is created every 7.4 seconds!!

I wrote Pictorialis because I had a need. I never quite realized just how popular or how important it would become. Is there really a lot of interest in this product? Should I consider versions and upgrades and actually following the support fora? I am afraid that if I dedicate all my time to Pictorialis, everything else will get sidelined (which is fine if there is a need). Here are my future plans for Pictorialis and the support offerings for it. Once WordPress 1.3 is released, move over the existing code to the new version Seperate “PhotoBlog” and “PhotoAlbum” as two seperate versions of the same Pictorialis. I believe that if they overlap, usability and technical granularity suffers Try to obtain a list of defects with present versions (not bugs, but defects in the methodology) and then incorporate them in the new version In the “PhotoAlbum” version, add more album-like […]

I scratched my head over this for a couple of hours and hope that someone else can benefit from my sore scalp! Imap mail functions for PHP are very easy to use and are quite quick. They can even be used for normal POP3 connections without certain IMAP functions. I have used them exclusively in a lot of my email scripts. However, almost every installation is different. If you are using imap_open function to open your mailbox, various servers will have different headaches with the function. The one surefire way to get around those headaches (when opening POP3 mailboxes) is to use the code below with your modifications. Basically, you have to specifically request a non-SSL connection everytime or your script MIGHT bork. Also, specifying INBOX saves headaches in many cases. $mbox = imap_open( “{yourmailserver.com/pop3:110/notls}INBOX”, “username”, “password” );

Six Apart Professional Network: Jay at Six Apart: Jay Allen is moving from Hungary to join Moveable Type as a product manager. Congratulations Jay (AND Six Apart)!

WordPress Photolog Hack – Delineate: A very nicely done photolog of which the author is sharing the source. The pictures are very pretty as well.

WordPress 1.2.1 Released: This is just a bug and security fix release. If you were worried about the XSS problems recently reported this is the fix for you

New York Times Link Generator: Ever wanted to post a NYTimes article on your blog but got caught up in NYTimes seeking registration? Then this page is the answer to creating blog-safe links to NYTimes archives and articles. Via: ForeverGeek

Kitten’s Project Blog >> Comment Karma: A very interesting idea. What do you think of a comment rating system in WordPress?