<div class="rss-widget"><ul><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://ma.tt/2012/01/reinventing-chamber-of-commerce/' title='Really great article from my friend Hunter Walk on #Reinventing the Chamber of Commerce, which is especially relevant given how the US Chamber of Commerce has been tending to side with the MPAA and RIAA rather than actual small businesses, startups, and tech communities. [&hellip;]'>Matt: #Reinventing: Chamber of Commerce</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://ma.tt/2012/01/bbc-viewpoint-on-blackout/' title='I&#039;ve built my life on a free and open internet. As the co-founder of WordPress.org, a free software project that aims to democratise publishing, and the founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com that hosts blogs from around the world in pursuit of the same goal, the proposed US legislation to regulate and censor the free and open foundatio [&hellip;]'>Matt: BBC Viewpoint on Blackout</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WordpressTavern/~3/q-DrfG2ZyhY/how-commercial-plugin-developers-are-monetizing-through-the-plugin-respository' title='In-depth article by Siobahn McKeown that breaks down how commercial plugin developers are monetizing their efforts through the WordPress.org plugin respository. The article covers the guidelines that plugin authors should follow, examples of successful plugins as well as plugins that didn’t meet the guidelines, and various ideas plugin authors can try. One o [&hellip;]'>WPTavern: How Commercial Plugin Developers Are Monetizing Through The Plugin Respository</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/JPao8KFcr8k/' title='New plugins SOPA Blackout adds a temporary 503 status and customisable page on your site to automatically join Web Blackout Day – 18th January 2012. Stop SOPA Ribbon will place a black ribbon with the words “Stop SOPA” in the top right corner of your website, linking to the American Censorship website. Note: Folks with WordPress.com blogs can join the SOPA/P [&hellip;]'>Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 1/18</a></li><li><a class='rsswidget' href='http://ocaoimh.ie/2012/01/18/a-cache-directory-is-a-temporary-directory/' title='WOAH! Do not put symlinks to your uploaded files in a temporary cache directory. Nginx users running WordPress should beware if they followed these instructions and put a symlink to uploaded files in the wp-content/cache/ directory. I’m going to rewrite that page right now suggesting they use a different directory, possibly wp-content/uploads/ or maybe wp-co [&hellip;]'>Donncha: A cache directory is a temporary directory</a></li></ul></div>