The WordPress Tagging Series: Volume One: A list of tags and their usage (including explanation of “the loop” and other peculiarities) for MT users switching to WordPress. Via: KPont

I thought that it would be useful to post my own experiences with the Three Strikes Plugin that I recently released. Here are some preliminary numbers while the filter is learning: Total Spam Comments in the past 5 days – 157 Total Spam Comments that got moderated by WordPress – 7 Total Spam Comments that I never saw anywhere (except my statistics logs) – 150 Total Spam Comments that showed up on the blog – 0 Since the code used by the plugin is not just my own work, I would not be tooting my own horn when I say that I am quite impressed by its performance. I am thinking of further refining the process by adding fuzzy signatures to each of the spam words and making the process of addition of spam words more seamless. For those of you that are not seeing the same kinds of results […]

my brain’s bit bucket >> plugin release: up2date: This new plugin allows WordPress plugin authors and plugin users to keep their plugins up to date. Via: BloggingPro

E4X: JavaScript for XML – The JavaScript Weblog – javascript.weblogsinc.com: A Javascript implementation for XML. The main article is written by John Udell and he mentions that the code in his article is written for Rhino which is Mozilla’s Java based Javascript interpreter. This technology is very cool and has a lot of possibilities, both incredibly useful and sinister. I can think of a bunch of exploits that could be very harmful, but I have not looked at the code in-depth.

Kevin Marsh | Why Less is More, and Simple is Complex (Draft): Interesting concepts about content presentation. Is your design “1999”?

at the 404 ! >> Odyssey is Go for main engine start: New template and theme pack for the new theme manager in WordPress 1.3 (not officially released).

Pheedo – Maximizing the Value of Weblog Advertising: Adam Kalsey, who has been running Blogsnob for the past year (after it was taken over by him) will be joining Pheedo as their CTO.

The Definitive Post on Gzipping your CSS: If you are having bandwidth problems and your CSS is growing out of control, GZIP your CSS (along with your markup of course) [EDIT] Matt points out some flaws with this method which could make your bandwidth situation worse. Read comments for more information