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<p>The directions are specific to WordPress.com, but will work for any blog or website. It&#8217;s also a prime example of how to use the WordPress Widget to add text to your sidebar. The code used in the example is straight HTML and not JavaScript, which is not permitted with WordPress.com blogs.</p>
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<p>What MyFreeCopyright does best is to remind and educate everyone on the importance of copyright, how to protect your content from copyright violations, and help you decide what your copyright policy should be. </p>
<p>If you want control over your blog content, and you want people to <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/stop-content-theft-buttons-and-badges/" title="Stop Content Theft Buttons and Badges">ask first before using your content without permission</a>, you have to be clear in your copyright policy. If you want to give your blog content, images, and multimedia away for free without permission, you also have to make that very clear as you are the copyright holder and can do whatever you want, but reading minds isn&#8217;t part of the process. <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
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Posted in WordPress News, WordPress Tips, Wordpressdotcom, Writing&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3113/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3113&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Donncha: PollDaddy join the Automattic Family";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494131";s:4:"link";s:66:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/10/15/polldaddy-join-the-automattic-family/";s:11:"description";s:1879:"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard the <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/polldaddy/">news</a> that Lenny and Eoin of <a href="http://polldaddy.com/">PollDaddy</a> have <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/polldaddy-goes-automattic/">joined</a> Automattic. PolDaddy has <a href="http://www.web2ireland.org/2008/10/15/polldaddy-acquired-by-wordpress/">been acquired</a> by Automattic, but on a personal level we&#8217;ve been joined by two great Irish guys from Sligo bringing the Irish contingent of Automattic up to three. Lenny did completely trash me at Wii Tennis but I won&#8217;t hold that against him!</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve even taken over a house here in Breckenridge, calling it the Irish House. The Irish Tricolour is flying outside an Irish pub downtown. They might lend it to us if we ask nicely ..<br />
<a href="http://raanan.com">Raanan</a> is staying there too so I guess we&#8217;ll make him an honourary Irishman for the week!</p>
<div align="center"><img src="http://en.blog.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/mcm_2583.jpg?w=600" /></div>
<p>As well as the great PollDaddy news, expect a few more enhancements to WordPress.com soon, and if I have anything to do with it, a plugin or two that will make it into the WordPress MU community too!</p>
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<p>We&#8217;ve even taken over a house here in Breckenridge, calling it the Irish House. The Irish Tricolour is flying outside an Irish pub downtown. They might lend it to us if we ask nicely ..<br />
<a href="http://raanan.com">Raanan</a> is staying there too so I guess we&#8217;ll make him an honourary Irishman for the week!</p>
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<p>As well as the great PollDaddy news, expect a few more enhancements to WordPress.com soon, and if I have anything to do with it, a plugin or two that will make it into the WordPress MU community too!</p>
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<p>From the sound of things, a few cool projects might be announced and introduced in the few weeks following this Automattic meeting.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:57:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:829:"<p><span>Automattic Acquires PollDaddy</span>.: From their recent bi-yearly assembly of Automattic folks, this time at Breckenridge Colorado, Matt announced that the PollDaddy service is the most recent member of the Automattic family and WordPress.com users will now be able to add polls to their WordPress blogs. He also said that the team is working on many features and customizations of polls to make the polls have the same look and feel as the blogs. There is a <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polldaddy/">WordPress.org plugin for PollDaddy</a> and <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/polldaddy-goes-automattic/">Matt posts about the PollDaddy acquisition on his blog</a>.</p>
<p>From the sound of things, a few cool projects might be announced and introduced in the few weeks following this Automattic meeting.</p>";}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:31:"Matt: PollDaddy Goes Automattic";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=8292";s:4:"link";s:47:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/polldaddy-goes-automattic/";s:11:"description";s:2601:"<p>It&#8217;s another exciting day here at <a href="http://automattic.com/">Automattic</a>. Today we finally get to announce that we&#8217;ve acquired the market-leading poll and survey service <a href="http://polldaddy.com/">PollDaddy</a>.</p>
<p>For a year or two now, I&#8217;ve been minorly obsessed with polls and surveys as a method of lightweight interaction that engages casual users of your website and also can get you some really fun data to play with. I&#8217;ve also mentioned at a few WordCamps that a polling plugin is one of the top 10 WordPress plugins in the world. Polls are <em>really</em> popular with WordPress users.</p>
<p>As we started to look at building out our own service for this, it became more obvious that, while on the surface it&#8217;s a very simple problem, there&#8217;s a lot of hidden complexity and opportunities for some really powerful features under the hood. There are probably a dozen companies addressing this space right now, but as we started to survey the space I was struck by how often I&#8217;d see this &#8220;PollDaddy&#8221; thing pop up.</p>
<p>Two guys in Ireland with a quirky company name were cleaning up with some of the largest and most respected websites using their service on a daily basis. They weren&#8217;t the biggest, but they had the high end of the market. It seemed to be the WordPress of the polling space.</p>
<p>I took a secret trip to Sligo and put back a few pints with the team and we decided to make things work. They went to bed every night and woke up every morning thinking about polls and surveys, and were iterating at a great pace. By plugging into Automattic&#8217;s experience at creating internet-scale services and the distribution of WordPress.com, I knew we could take Polldaddy to an entirely new level in a relatively short amount of time.</p>
<p>Today <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/polldaddy/">we just enabled PollDaddy integration with 4.4 million blogs on WordPress.com</a> and have <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polldaddy/">released the first version of their .org plugin</a>.</p>
<p>You can read more about the acquisition on the <a href="http://blog.polldaddy.com/2008/10/15/automattic-acquires-polldaddy/">PollDaddy blog</a>, <a href="http://toni.org/2008/10/15/welcome-polldaddy/">Toni&#8217;s blog</a>, and <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/polldaddy/">the WP.com blog</a>. I&#8217;m super excited to have Lenny and Eoin as part of the Automattic family, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing the service flourish with its newfound resources.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:56:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:2601:"<p>It&#8217;s another exciting day here at <a href="http://automattic.com/">Automattic</a>. Today we finally get to announce that we&#8217;ve acquired the market-leading poll and survey service <a href="http://polldaddy.com/">PollDaddy</a>.</p>
<p>For a year or two now, I&#8217;ve been minorly obsessed with polls and surveys as a method of lightweight interaction that engages casual users of your website and also can get you some really fun data to play with. I&#8217;ve also mentioned at a few WordCamps that a polling plugin is one of the top 10 WordPress plugins in the world. Polls are <em>really</em> popular with WordPress users.</p>
<p>As we started to look at building out our own service for this, it became more obvious that, while on the surface it&#8217;s a very simple problem, there&#8217;s a lot of hidden complexity and opportunities for some really powerful features under the hood. There are probably a dozen companies addressing this space right now, but as we started to survey the space I was struck by how often I&#8217;d see this &#8220;PollDaddy&#8221; thing pop up.</p>
<p>Two guys in Ireland with a quirky company name were cleaning up with some of the largest and most respected websites using their service on a daily basis. They weren&#8217;t the biggest, but they had the high end of the market. It seemed to be the WordPress of the polling space.</p>
<p>I took a secret trip to Sligo and put back a few pints with the team and we decided to make things work. They went to bed every night and woke up every morning thinking about polls and surveys, and were iterating at a great pace. By plugging into Automattic&#8217;s experience at creating internet-scale services and the distribution of WordPress.com, I knew we could take Polldaddy to an entirely new level in a relatively short amount of time.</p>
<p>Today <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/polldaddy/">we just enabled PollDaddy integration with 4.4 million blogs on WordPress.com</a> and have <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polldaddy/">released the first version of their .org plugin</a>.</p>
<p>You can read more about the acquisition on the <a href="http://blog.polldaddy.com/2008/10/15/automattic-acquires-polldaddy/">PollDaddy blog</a>, <a href="http://toni.org/2008/10/15/welcome-polldaddy/">Toni&#8217;s blog</a>, and <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/polldaddy/">the WP.com blog</a>. I&#8217;m super excited to have Lenny and Eoin as part of the Automattic family, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing the service flourish with its newfound resources.</p>";}i:6;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:65:"Lorelle on WP: Developing a Tourist Community Site With WordPress";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3108";s:4:"link";s:91:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/developing-a-tourist-community-site-with-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:7463:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><em>How would you like to hand-hold a web developer as he creates a WordPress-based Tourist Community Site? <a href="http://www.icanlocalize.com" title="Amir Helzer">Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize</a> recently decided to create such a site for his small tourist town of Bariloche in Argentina. And he wants your help. Over the next month or so, Amir will be taking your advice on this blog to help him create his community tourist site with WordPress. As with all such endeavors, it begins with a plan.</em></p>
<p><strong>By <a href="http://www.icanlocalize.com" title="Amir Helzer">Amir Helzer</a></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bariloche1.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="" title="bariloche Island Mountains" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3109" />I&#8217;ve been living in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bariloche" title="Bariloche, Argentina">Bariloche, Argentina</a>, for the past few years. It&#8217;s a small town, so folks know each other pretty well.  A popular tourist destination, everyone here is doing something with tourists, from renting out cabañas to ski instructors, trout fishing guides to para-gliding. As a web expert, friends often ask if I can help them build a website for their business. They hear that it&#8217;s a good way to get new business, especially rich folks from the US and Europe. We may be a calm and relaxing vacation destination, however, we are also determined business people.</p>
<p>Most locals are familiar with static websites, with enough content for a contact page and photo gallery showing off the same tourist images of Bariloche. Recently, I decided instead of meeting their needs individually, I would create a community site for tourist information with WordPress. It will be called <a href="http://www.baripedia.com" title="Baripedia">Baripedia</a>.</p>
<p>This is not a common project and I need your help and input to make this tourist community site work with WordPress. I&#8217;ll be asking WordPress to do a lot of things that stretch it in many ways, ways we aren&#8217;t very familiar with. I think it&#8217;s the right tool for the job, but making WordPress do what we ask of it pushes it beyond its traditional usage. Want to help?</p>
<h3>The Challenges of a Community Tourist Site</h3>
<p>Most businesses appearing on Baripedia will need the basics and a bit more:</p>
<ul>
<li>A few &#8217;static&#8217; pages, like a home page and details about different things they offer.</li>
<li>A contact page.</li>
<li>Order processing, so that visitors can pay online for products, lodging, and services.</li>
<li>News and events.</li>
<li>Map locater (such as Google maps, but it isn&#8217;t available in Argentina).</li>
</ul>
<p>There are a variety of challenges facing a community site focused on tourism. It must represent the community as well as each business involved. Here are some of the challenges involved:</p>
<p>Each company must have a page of information about their products and services with contact information.</p>
<ol>
<li>Ecommerce WordPress Plugins must also serve each individual company from within the site.</li>
<li>We need to decide how to incorporate each business into the site. Should we use <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/" title="WordPressMU" rel="tag">WordPressMU</a> and give each business their own &#8220;blog&#8221; with a front entry blog that links all of the individual ones within the network together? Or have one self-hosted version of WordPress that serves all the businesses?</li>
<li>Decide how much &#8220;freedom&#8221; and control each business would have over their &#8220;pages&#8221; and content. What if one business gets into blogging and writes over 100 blog posts quickly while the others write only a couple?</li>
<li>Decide what content will go into the community site and which business will contribute what content. Do we need a community editor that will keep the blog going or will each business contribute fairly equally?</li>
<li>Decide the format of the design and structure. Will it be a newspaper/magazine style, or should it be more commercial and aimed strictly towards high end vacation customers? Or maybe it should be very community-oriented and &#8220;friendly&#8221;, representing the relaxed tourist community?</li>
<li>We need functions that are not blog-oriented, such as table views of different businesses with filtering and sorting features. How do we build these functions so that they&#8217;re agile and will not easily break when WordPress updates.</li>
</ol>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bariloche2.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="" title="bariloche - vacation skiing in Argentina" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3110" />To choose right, we must remember what&#8217;s important to the people who would eventually participate in this project. To work well, over time, people need to get a real benefit, which can be measured. There are three main things people need it for:</p>
<ol>
<li>To have a URL to print on business cards, brochures and other printed stuff.</li>
<li>A URL to give to other websites. I&#8217;m talking about these separately, as this URL can be ask long and complex as needed, while the other must be short.</li>
<li>To get traffic from search engines and people who know the &#8216;portal&#8217;.</li>
</ol>
<p>While an independent website, on its own domain would be best for having a short and nice URL, it&#8217;s the least fitting for the other two needs. In reality, if there are hundreds of similar businesses, in the same town, Google is not likely to return the website of a particular one, when it can return the website of a directory. Especially if the directory is rich in contents and adheres to web standards.</p>
<p>Ideally, we should find a solution which lets every business feel like he&#8217;s got his own patch on the net, where he can express himself and be competitive, while the entire site acts as a high quality resource for information about Bariloche. Your suggestions?</p>
<p>Thanks, <a href="http://www.icanlocalize.com" title="Amir Helzer">Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize</a></p>
Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3108&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:00:05 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:7463:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><em>How would you like to hand-hold a web developer as he creates a WordPress-based Tourist Community Site? <a href="http://www.icanlocalize.com" title="Amir Helzer">Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize</a> recently decided to create such a site for his small tourist town of Bariloche in Argentina. And he wants your help. Over the next month or so, Amir will be taking your advice on this blog to help him create his community tourist site with WordPress. As with all such endeavors, it begins with a plan.</em></p>
<p><strong>By <a href="http://www.icanlocalize.com" title="Amir Helzer">Amir Helzer</a></strong></p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bariloche1.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="" title="bariloche Island Mountains" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3109" />I&#8217;ve been living in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bariloche" title="Bariloche, Argentina">Bariloche, Argentina</a>, for the past few years. It&#8217;s a small town, so folks know each other pretty well.  A popular tourist destination, everyone here is doing something with tourists, from renting out cabañas to ski instructors, trout fishing guides to para-gliding. As a web expert, friends often ask if I can help them build a website for their business. They hear that it&#8217;s a good way to get new business, especially rich folks from the US and Europe. We may be a calm and relaxing vacation destination, however, we are also determined business people.</p>
<p>Most locals are familiar with static websites, with enough content for a contact page and photo gallery showing off the same tourist images of Bariloche. Recently, I decided instead of meeting their needs individually, I would create a community site for tourist information with WordPress. It will be called <a href="http://www.baripedia.com" title="Baripedia">Baripedia</a>.</p>
<p>This is not a common project and I need your help and input to make this tourist community site work with WordPress. I&#8217;ll be asking WordPress to do a lot of things that stretch it in many ways, ways we aren&#8217;t very familiar with. I think it&#8217;s the right tool for the job, but making WordPress do what we ask of it pushes it beyond its traditional usage. Want to help?</p>
<h3>The Challenges of a Community Tourist Site</h3>
<p>Most businesses appearing on Baripedia will need the basics and a bit more:</p>
<ul>
<li>A few &#8217;static&#8217; pages, like a home page and details about different things they offer.</li>
<li>A contact page.</li>
<li>Order processing, so that visitors can pay online for products, lodging, and services.</li>
<li>News and events.</li>
<li>Map locater (such as Google maps, but it isn&#8217;t available in Argentina).</li>
</ul>
<p>There are a variety of challenges facing a community site focused on tourism. It must represent the community as well as each business involved. Here are some of the challenges involved:</p>
<p>Each company must have a page of information about their products and services with contact information.</p>
<ol>
<li>Ecommerce WordPress Plugins must also serve each individual company from within the site.</li>
<li>We need to decide how to incorporate each business into the site. Should we use <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/" title="WordPressMU" rel="tag">WordPressMU</a> and give each business their own &#8220;blog&#8221; with a front entry blog that links all of the individual ones within the network together? Or have one self-hosted version of WordPress that serves all the businesses?</li>
<li>Decide how much &#8220;freedom&#8221; and control each business would have over their &#8220;pages&#8221; and content. What if one business gets into blogging and writes over 100 blog posts quickly while the others write only a couple?</li>
<li>Decide what content will go into the community site and which business will contribute what content. Do we need a community editor that will keep the blog going or will each business contribute fairly equally?</li>
<li>Decide the format of the design and structure. Will it be a newspaper/magazine style, or should it be more commercial and aimed strictly towards high end vacation customers? Or maybe it should be very community-oriented and &#8220;friendly&#8221;, representing the relaxed tourist community?</li>
<li>We need functions that are not blog-oriented, such as table views of different businesses with filtering and sorting features. How do we build these functions so that they&#8217;re agile and will not easily break when WordPress updates.</li>
</ol>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bariloche2.jpg?w=300&#038;h=225" alt="" title="bariloche - vacation skiing in Argentina" width="300" height="225" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3110" />To choose right, we must remember what&#8217;s important to the people who would eventually participate in this project. To work well, over time, people need to get a real benefit, which can be measured. There are three main things people need it for:</p>
<ol>
<li>To have a URL to print on business cards, brochures and other printed stuff.</li>
<li>A URL to give to other websites. I&#8217;m talking about these separately, as this URL can be ask long and complex as needed, while the other must be short.</li>
<li>To get traffic from search engines and people who know the &#8216;portal&#8217;.</li>
</ol>
<p>While an independent website, on its own domain would be best for having a short and nice URL, it&#8217;s the least fitting for the other two needs. In reality, if there are hundreds of similar businesses, in the same town, Google is not likely to return the website of a particular one, when it can return the website of a directory. Especially if the directory is rich in contents and adheres to web standards.</p>
<p>Ideally, we should find a solution which lets every business feel like he&#8217;s got his own patch on the net, where he can express himself and be competitive, while the entire site acts as a high quality resource for information about Bariloche. Your suggestions?</p>
<p>Thanks, <a href="http://www.icanlocalize.com" title="Amir Helzer">Amir Helzer of ICanLocalize</a></p>
Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress News, WordPress Themes, WordPress Tips&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3108/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3108&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:7;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/15";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4365";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/15/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1015/";s:11:"description";s:1753:"<h3>New Releases</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/results-count/"><strong>Results Count</strong></a></p>
<p>Results-Count is a very simple plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin &amp; will count the number of posts that result from operations in Wordpress such as a search, viewing a category, or viewing a monthly archive etc.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/"><strong>Custom Field Template</strong></a></p>
<p>The Custom Field Template plugin adds the default custom fields on the Write Post/Page. The template format is almost same as the one of the rc:custom<em>field</em>gui plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/"><strong>eShop</strong></a></p>
<p>An accessible Paypal Shopping Cart plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://munashiku.slightofmind.net/wordpress-plugins/tango-smileys-extended"><strong>Tango Smileys Extended</strong></a></p>
<p>Tango Smileys Extended (TSE) is designed to replace the standard WordPress smileys and extend the number of available smileys from 18 to 186.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/"><strong>Viper&#8217;s Video Quicktags</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows easy and XHTML valid posting of videos from various websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://featplug.huseyinuslu.net/"><strong>FeatPlug</strong></a></p>
<p>Featplug is a plugin that can mine your WordPress (or any other Blog/CMS/Forum software&#8217;s) posts and generates “featured content” section.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp-pods.googlecode.com/"><strong>Pods</strong></a></p>
<p>Pods is a WordPress plugin that adds CMS abilities to blog posts.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:00:06 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1753:"<h3>New Releases</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/results-count/"><strong>Results Count</strong></a></p>
<p>Results-Count is a very simple plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin &amp; will count the number of posts that result from operations in Wordpress such as a search, viewing a category, or viewing a monthly archive etc.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-template/"><strong>Custom Field Template</strong></a></p>
<p>The Custom Field Template plugin adds the default custom fields on the Write Post/Page. The template format is almost same as the one of the rc:custom<em>field</em>gui plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/"><strong>eShop</strong></a></p>
<p>An accessible Paypal Shopping Cart plugin.</p>
<p><a href="http://munashiku.slightofmind.net/wordpress-plugins/tango-smileys-extended"><strong>Tango Smileys Extended</strong></a></p>
<p>Tango Smileys Extended (TSE) is designed to replace the standard WordPress smileys and extend the number of available smileys from 18 to 186.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.viper007bond.com/wordpress-plugins/vipers-video-quicktags/"><strong>Viper&#8217;s Video Quicktags</strong></a></p>
<p>Allows easy and XHTML valid posting of videos from various websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, Vimeo, and more.</p>
<p><a href="http://featplug.huseyinuslu.net/"><strong>FeatPlug</strong></a></p>
<p>Featplug is a plugin that can mine your WordPress (or any other Blog/CMS/Forum software&#8217;s) posts and generates “featured content” section.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp-pods.googlecode.com/"><strong>Pods</strong></a></p>
<p>Pods is a WordPress plugin that adds CMS abilities to blog posts.</p>";}i:8;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Dougal Campbell: WordPress Wednesday Kick Off";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1120";s:4:"link";s:70:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/10/15/wordpress-wednesday-kick-off";s:11:"description";s:12378:"<p><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1150" title="WordPress Wednesday" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></a></p>
<p>This is the first installment of &#8220;WordPress Wednesday&#8221;, which I mentioned in my previous post about <a title="It's Time for Some Changes" href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/10/13/time-for-changes">making changes</a> to my site. This first one is going to be a little long, and I&#8217;ve been editing the draft off-and-on for over a week. Future articles will probably be shorter, in general, and focus on a particular subject. But let&#8217;s start out by looking at the current state of this website. We&#8217;ll examine what is good, what I think needs changing, and I&#8217;ll point out some recent changes I&#8217;ve already made, and why.</p>
<p>In later installments, I will begin making changes to the site, and we can examine how and why those changes were made. I hope that by following along, you will be able to learn a little something that might help you see ways to improve your own site. Below, I&#8217;ll lay out some of the topics that I will be touching on. If there is something in particular you&#8217;d like me to address, let me know, and maybe I can add it to the list.</p>
<p><span id="more-1120"></span></p>
<h3>Where we are now</h3>
<p>Currently, the base theme for the site is <a title="Sandbox theme for WordPress" href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/">Sandbox</a>, which is a great &#8220;bare-bones&#8221; template to implement a <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> design around. Sandbox has good <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym> (Search Engine Optimization)  features, well-structured semantic <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym>, <a href="http://microformats.org/">microformat</a> generation, and an excellent system of contextually generated class attributes which let you style your site using <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> based on a wide variety of factors for the page a visitor is currently viewing. Which is a complicated way of saying that it generates lots of classes in the <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> that you can use to do fancy things in your stylesheets.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also been using several plugins to add minor improvements here and there. Some of the main plugins are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/">Search Everything</a> &#8212; extends the default WordPress search to include pages and comments</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easygravatars/">Easy Gravatars</a> &#8212; my own plugin, adds Gravatars to comments without modifying the theme files</li>
<li><a href="http://sharethis.com/">ShareThis</a> &#8212; allows visitors to easily share my links on popular social networking sites like Delicious and Reddit</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/">Simple Tags</a> &#8212; extra tag management features, tag cloud</li>
<li><a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/">Subscribe to Comments</a> &#8212; allow visitors to subscribe to post comments via email</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/">Twitter Tools</a> &#8212; display my latest Twitter updates in my sidebar</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bencoleman.co.uk/flickr-widget-plugin-for-your-wordpress-sidebar/">Flickr Badge Widget</a> &#8212; display random photos from my Flickr photo stream</li>
</ul>
<p>As you can see, some of these plugins are &#8220;decorative&#8221; in nature (Easy Gravatars, Twitter Tools, Flickr Badge). Others are to improve the site&#8217;s usability to visitors (Search Everything), others are to encourage &#8220;stickiness&#8221; (Subscribe to Comments, ShareThis). And there are plugins to make things easier for me, the site owner (Simple Tags).</p>
<p>I use many more plugins than those listed above (nearly 40 all together), but that list will give you an idea of some of the more visible ones, and why I use them.</p>
<h3>A few personal touches</h3>
<p>For some features, I either couldn&#8217;t find an existing plugin that worked like I wanted, or the plugins I found were overkill for my purposes. I wanted to avoid modifying template files in the same way that you want to avoid modifying core WordPress files. So one thing I&#8217;ve done is to create a special plugin called &#8220;My Local Customizations&#8221;.</p>
<p>This plugin handles several things that are specific to my site, but not tied down to whatever theme I might be using. For example, it is responsible for adding in the scripts for Google Analytics and other traffic metric services, adds extra metadata to my pages, adds a &#8220;related posts&#8221; section (aided by the Simple Tags plugin), and it defines a customized &#8220;nice_excerpt&#8221; function that some of my archive pages use. I&#8217;ll probably give more details about nice excerpts in a future article.</p>
<h3>Room for improvement</h3>
<p>For some time now, I&#8217;ve been using the &#8220;Rockem Sockem Robots&#8221; image for my &#8220;branding&#8221;. There was no particular reason for choosing it, other than I had taken the photo, and wanted to use it for something. In a long-ago redesign of my site, I stuck it in my header, and began using the robot image as my avatar shortly afterwards. The robot branding is fun and fine for small-scale personal usage, but if I ever want to have personal branding that I could use for business purposes, I would start running up against trademark issues. As a result, I am planning to phase out the robot images, but I haven&#8217;t settled on a definite replacement yet.</p>
<p>In the earlier days of my site, I generally assumed that most of my visitors were pretty tech-savvy, and could find ways to keep up-to-date with my site on their own, if they wanted to. However, the blogosphere has changed since then, and I can&#8217;t always assume that someone who wishes to subscribe to my site knows how to let their tools find my syndication feeds, or knows to look around for a &#8220;subscribe by email&#8221; link. I need to do some work to bring these subscription options in front of people&#8217;s eyeballs, make them easy to find, so that I can make it easier for visitors to subscribe to, and revisit my site. Expect to see prominent subscription icons appear soon.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got several stand-alone pages such as &#8220;<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/about-this-site">About This Site</a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/contact">Contact</a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/donate">Donate</a>&#8220;, and &#8220;<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/tagcloud">Tag Cloud</a>&#8220;. The About page has some information about me and this site, but I&#8217;m really not very happy with its current state. Likewise with the Contact and Donate pages: they are very basic, sometimes cluttered, and not terribly interesting. I&#8217;ll be touching those up somewhere along the way in this series of articles.</p>
<p>Though I&#8217;ve created several plugins for WordPress, I haven&#8217;t done a lot to promote them, beyond announcing them and making occasional updates. There are several improvements I can make to help improve the visibility of those projects. For one thing, I will move them from posts to pages. Then I will create a special page template which will automatically include download links, a &#8220;call to action&#8221; for donations, and changelog information. I will also create a consolidated &#8220;projects&#8221; page which will list all of the projects, to make them easier to find.</p>
<p>My sidebar is a cluttered, badly-organized mess. There are too many links, several of which are probably out of date. Many of the external links should be removed from the sidebar, and moved to a separate &#8220;resources&#8221; page. The sidebar will be reduced to primarily contain links with more information about myself, this site, and a few key external resources which are important to me (likely in the form of some kind of lifestream). I will also make context-sensitive sidebars, so that different sections will appear depending on whether you are viewing the home page, a single blog post, a plugin project page, archive pages, etc.</p>
<p>My categories are also in a state of disarray. Back before we had real tag support in WordPress, I began using categories as tags. After we got tags in the core system, I began to regret that decision. As I&#8217;ve posted before, there are valid reasons to use both <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/09/22/tags-and-categories-in-wordpress">categories and tags</a>, for separate organizational purposes. I plan to slim down to a very small set of broad categories, with tags providing supplemental keyword metadata. In order to preserve any existing category <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator"><span class="caps">URL</span></acronym> pointers, this will require me to create some sort of redirection from the old categories to new tag archive URLs. This will likely be done in a custom 404 handler in the new theme, when I reach that stage of my redesign. Once I finish reaping the categories, I plan to give posts in each category a unique visual identity, by means of a standard icon for each one, and possibly a unique color scheme variation. This will make it easier for visitors to pick out the topics that interest them the most when skimming the site.</p>
<p>Currently, I am using a very standard blog format &#8212; a header, sidebar, and a main content area containing ten posts. In the long  term, I plan to switch to a format more closely resembling an online magazine. The main content area will call more attention to just the most recent few articles, with just linked headlines to some of the less recent ones. I will probably switch from Sandbox to some other base theme, and modify it  to my needs. More on that later, when I make more decisions about how I want to arrange things.</p>
<h3>Most recent changes</h3>
<p>Even though change here has been slow, I have made a few improvements and additions recently. For example, I set up my feeds with FeedBurner and installed the FeedSmith plugin. For one thing, this finally gives me some idea about how many <acronym title="Rich Site Summary"><span class="caps">RSS</span></acronym>/Atom subscribers I have, about 500 &#8212; more than I thought, not as many as I would like. I will be doing more with this, such as using FeedBurner&#8217;s Email Subscription service so that visitors can receive site updates by email. I also installed the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/">All in One <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym> Pack</a> plugin, which makes several good <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym> improvements right out of the box. I installed the <a href="http://www.preblogging.com/increase-sociability/">Increase Sociability</a> plugin, which recognizes when a visitor arrives from Digg or StumbleUpon, and gives them an additional &#8220;call to action&#8221; to help share my site with others. And I began trying out the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/drain-hole/">Drain Hole</a> plugin (on my post about the <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/08/29/xcache-object-cache-plugin-for-wordpress-25">XCache object-cache plugin</a>), which is a precursor to the plugin page improvements I mentioned above.</p>
<h3>Stay tuned&#8230;</h3>
<p>So there is my &#8220;State of the Blog&#8221; update, and a rough plan for how I know I can improve my site. I&#8217;m no designer, but I&#8217;ll do my best to make the site not only function better, but to look better. Again, I hope that some of you will learn something as I progress, and if you have your own ideas that you think will improve the site, feel free to toss them into the pot!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:00:38 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:12378:"<p><a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1150" title="WordPress Wednesday" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/wordpress-wednesday.png" alt="" width="200" height="200" /></a></p>
<p>This is the first installment of &#8220;WordPress Wednesday&#8221;, which I mentioned in my previous post about <a title="It's Time for Some Changes" href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/10/13/time-for-changes">making changes</a> to my site. This first one is going to be a little long, and I&#8217;ve been editing the draft off-and-on for over a week. Future articles will probably be shorter, in general, and focus on a particular subject. But let&#8217;s start out by looking at the current state of this website. We&#8217;ll examine what is good, what I think needs changing, and I&#8217;ll point out some recent changes I&#8217;ve already made, and why.</p>
<p>In later installments, I will begin making changes to the site, and we can examine how and why those changes were made. I hope that by following along, you will be able to learn a little something that might help you see ways to improve your own site. Below, I&#8217;ll lay out some of the topics that I will be touching on. If there is something in particular you&#8217;d like me to address, let me know, and maybe I can add it to the list.</p>
<p><span id="more-1120"></span></p>
<h3>Where we are now</h3>
<p>Currently, the base theme for the site is <a title="Sandbox theme for WordPress" href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/">Sandbox</a>, which is a great &#8220;bare-bones&#8221; template to implement a <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> design around. Sandbox has good <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym> (Search Engine Optimization)  features, well-structured semantic <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym>, <a href="http://microformats.org/">microformat</a> generation, and an excellent system of contextually generated class attributes which let you style your site using <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> based on a wide variety of factors for the page a visitor is currently viewing. Which is a complicated way of saying that it generates lots of classes in the <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym> that you can use to do fancy things in your stylesheets.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also been using several plugins to add minor improvements here and there. Some of the main plugins are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-everything/">Search Everything</a> &#8212; extends the default WordPress search to include pages and comments</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easygravatars/">Easy Gravatars</a> &#8212; my own plugin, adds Gravatars to comments without modifying the theme files</li>
<li><a href="http://sharethis.com/">ShareThis</a> &#8212; allows visitors to easily share my links on popular social networking sites like Delicious and Reddit</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-tags/">Simple Tags</a> &#8212; extra tag management features, tag cloud</li>
<li><a href="http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/">Subscribe to Comments</a> &#8212; allow visitors to subscribe to post comments via email</li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/">Twitter Tools</a> &#8212; display my latest Twitter updates in my sidebar</li>
<li><a href="http://www.bencoleman.co.uk/flickr-widget-plugin-for-your-wordpress-sidebar/">Flickr Badge Widget</a> &#8212; display random photos from my Flickr photo stream</li>
</ul>
<p>As you can see, some of these plugins are &#8220;decorative&#8221; in nature (Easy Gravatars, Twitter Tools, Flickr Badge). Others are to improve the site&#8217;s usability to visitors (Search Everything), others are to encourage &#8220;stickiness&#8221; (Subscribe to Comments, ShareThis). And there are plugins to make things easier for me, the site owner (Simple Tags).</p>
<p>I use many more plugins than those listed above (nearly 40 all together), but that list will give you an idea of some of the more visible ones, and why I use them.</p>
<h3>A few personal touches</h3>
<p>For some features, I either couldn&#8217;t find an existing plugin that worked like I wanted, or the plugins I found were overkill for my purposes. I wanted to avoid modifying template files in the same way that you want to avoid modifying core WordPress files. So one thing I&#8217;ve done is to create a special plugin called &#8220;My Local Customizations&#8221;.</p>
<p>This plugin handles several things that are specific to my site, but not tied down to whatever theme I might be using. For example, it is responsible for adding in the scripts for Google Analytics and other traffic metric services, adds extra metadata to my pages, adds a &#8220;related posts&#8221; section (aided by the Simple Tags plugin), and it defines a customized &#8220;nice_excerpt&#8221; function that some of my archive pages use. I&#8217;ll probably give more details about nice excerpts in a future article.</p>
<h3>Room for improvement</h3>
<p>For some time now, I&#8217;ve been using the &#8220;Rockem Sockem Robots&#8221; image for my &#8220;branding&#8221;. There was no particular reason for choosing it, other than I had taken the photo, and wanted to use it for something. In a long-ago redesign of my site, I stuck it in my header, and began using the robot image as my avatar shortly afterwards. The robot branding is fun and fine for small-scale personal usage, but if I ever want to have personal branding that I could use for business purposes, I would start running up against trademark issues. As a result, I am planning to phase out the robot images, but I haven&#8217;t settled on a definite replacement yet.</p>
<p>In the earlier days of my site, I generally assumed that most of my visitors were pretty tech-savvy, and could find ways to keep up-to-date with my site on their own, if they wanted to. However, the blogosphere has changed since then, and I can&#8217;t always assume that someone who wishes to subscribe to my site knows how to let their tools find my syndication feeds, or knows to look around for a &#8220;subscribe by email&#8221; link. I need to do some work to bring these subscription options in front of people&#8217;s eyeballs, make them easy to find, so that I can make it easier for visitors to subscribe to, and revisit my site. Expect to see prominent subscription icons appear soon.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got several stand-alone pages such as &#8220;<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/about-this-site">About This Site</a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/contact">Contact</a>&#8220;, &#8220;<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/donate">Donate</a>&#8220;, and &#8220;<a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/tagcloud">Tag Cloud</a>&#8220;. The About page has some information about me and this site, but I&#8217;m really not very happy with its current state. Likewise with the Contact and Donate pages: they are very basic, sometimes cluttered, and not terribly interesting. I&#8217;ll be touching those up somewhere along the way in this series of articles.</p>
<p>Though I&#8217;ve created several plugins for WordPress, I haven&#8217;t done a lot to promote them, beyond announcing them and making occasional updates. There are several improvements I can make to help improve the visibility of those projects. For one thing, I will move them from posts to pages. Then I will create a special page template which will automatically include download links, a &#8220;call to action&#8221; for donations, and changelog information. I will also create a consolidated &#8220;projects&#8221; page which will list all of the projects, to make them easier to find.</p>
<p>My sidebar is a cluttered, badly-organized mess. There are too many links, several of which are probably out of date. Many of the external links should be removed from the sidebar, and moved to a separate &#8220;resources&#8221; page. The sidebar will be reduced to primarily contain links with more information about myself, this site, and a few key external resources which are important to me (likely in the form of some kind of lifestream). I will also make context-sensitive sidebars, so that different sections will appear depending on whether you are viewing the home page, a single blog post, a plugin project page, archive pages, etc.</p>
<p>My categories are also in a state of disarray. Back before we had real tag support in WordPress, I began using categories as tags. After we got tags in the core system, I began to regret that decision. As I&#8217;ve posted before, there are valid reasons to use both <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2007/09/22/tags-and-categories-in-wordpress">categories and tags</a>, for separate organizational purposes. I plan to slim down to a very small set of broad categories, with tags providing supplemental keyword metadata. In order to preserve any existing category <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator"><span class="caps">URL</span></acronym> pointers, this will require me to create some sort of redirection from the old categories to new tag archive URLs. This will likely be done in a custom 404 handler in the new theme, when I reach that stage of my redesign. Once I finish reaping the categories, I plan to give posts in each category a unique visual identity, by means of a standard icon for each one, and possibly a unique color scheme variation. This will make it easier for visitors to pick out the topics that interest them the most when skimming the site.</p>
<p>Currently, I am using a very standard blog format &#8212; a header, sidebar, and a main content area containing ten posts. In the long  term, I plan to switch to a format more closely resembling an online magazine. The main content area will call more attention to just the most recent few articles, with just linked headlines to some of the less recent ones. I will probably switch from Sandbox to some other base theme, and modify it  to my needs. More on that later, when I make more decisions about how I want to arrange things.</p>
<h3>Most recent changes</h3>
<p>Even though change here has been slow, I have made a few improvements and additions recently. For example, I set up my feeds with FeedBurner and installed the FeedSmith plugin. For one thing, this finally gives me some idea about how many <acronym title="Rich Site Summary"><span class="caps">RSS</span></acronym>/Atom subscribers I have, about 500 &#8212; more than I thought, not as many as I would like. I will be doing more with this, such as using FeedBurner&#8217;s Email Subscription service so that visitors can receive site updates by email. I also installed the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/">All in One <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym> Pack</a> plugin, which makes several good <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym> improvements right out of the box. I installed the <a href="http://www.preblogging.com/increase-sociability/">Increase Sociability</a> plugin, which recognizes when a visitor arrives from Digg or StumbleUpon, and gives them an additional &#8220;call to action&#8221; to help share my site with others. And I began trying out the <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/drain-hole/">Drain Hole</a> plugin (on my post about the <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/08/29/xcache-object-cache-plugin-for-wordpress-25">XCache object-cache plugin</a>), which is a precursor to the plugin page improvements I mentioned above.</p>
<h3>Stay tuned&#8230;</h3>
<p>So there is my &#8220;State of the Blog&#8221; update, and a rough plan for how I know I can improve my site. I&#8217;m no designer, but I&#8217;ll do my best to make the site not only function better, but to look better. Again, I hope that some of you will learn something as I progress, and if you have your own ideas that you think will improve the site, feel free to toss them into the pot!</p>";}i:9;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Matt: Berlin Day 5";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=8165";s:4:"link";s:34:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/";s:11:"description";s:12680:"<p>Final day in Berlin.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2481/" title="mcm_2481"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2481-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:45:23 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:12680:"<p>Final day in Berlin.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2393/" title="mcm_2393"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2393-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2395/" title="mcm_2395"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2395-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2397-2/" title="mcm_2397"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2397-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2398/" title="mcm_2398"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2398-195x130.jpg" width="195" height="130" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2400/" title="mcm_2400"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2400-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2403/" title="mcm_2403"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2403-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2405-2/" title="mcm_2405"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2405-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2406/" title="mcm_2406"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2406-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2408/" title="mcm_2408"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2408-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2409/" title="mcm_2409"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2409-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2410/" title="mcm_2410"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2410-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2411/" title="mcm_2411"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2411-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2412-2/" title="mcm_2412"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2412-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2413/" title="mcm_2413"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2413-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2414/" title="mcm_2414"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2414-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2415/" title="mcm_2415"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2415-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2416/" title="mcm_2416"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2416-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2417/" title="mcm_2417"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2417-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2418/" title="mcm_2418"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2418-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2420/" title="mcm_2420"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2420-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2421/" title="mcm_2421"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2421-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2422-2/" title="mcm_2422"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2422-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2423/" title="mcm_2423"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2423-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2426/" title="mcm_2426"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2426-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2427/" title="mcm_2427"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2427-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2428/" title="mcm_2428"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2428-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2429/" title="mcm_2429"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2429-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2430/" title="mcm_2430"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2430-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2431/" title="mcm_2431"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2431-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2432/" title="mcm_2432"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2432-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2433/" title="mcm_2433"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2433-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2434-2/" title="mcm_2434"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2434-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2435/" title="mcm_2435"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2435-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2437/" title="mcm_2437"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2437-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2441/" title="mcm_2441"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2441-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2442/" title="mcm_2442"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2442-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2443/" title="mcm_2443"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2443-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2447/" title="mcm_2447"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2447-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2449/" title="mcm_2449"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2449-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2454/" title="mcm_2454"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2454-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2456/" title="mcm_2456"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2456-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2459/" title="mcm_2459"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2459-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2460/" title="mcm_2460"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2460-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2461-2/" title="mcm_2461"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2461-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2462/" title="mcm_2462"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2462-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2466/" title="mcm_2466"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2466-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2467/" title="mcm_2467"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2467-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2468-2/" title="mcm_2468"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2468-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2469/" title="mcm_2469"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2469-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2470/" title="mcm_2470"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2470-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2471/" title="mcm_2471"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2471-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2477/" title="mcm_2477"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2477-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-5/mcm_2481/" title="mcm_2481"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2481-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";}i:10;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Matt: Friedrichshain & Berlin Meetup";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=8080";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/";s:11:"description";s:18069:"<p>Friedrichshain and Berlin Web 2.0 / WordPress meetup.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2104/" title="mcm_2104"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2104-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2105/" title="mcm_2105"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2105-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2108/" title="mcm_2108"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2108-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2109/" title="mcm_2109"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2109-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2110-2/" title="mcm_2110"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2110-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2111/" title="mcm_2111"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2111-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2112-2/" title="mcm_2112"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2112-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2113/" title="mcm_2113"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2113-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2114-2/" title="mcm_2114"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2114-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2117/" title="mcm_2117"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2117-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2118-2/" title="mcm_2118"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2118-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2119/" title="mcm_2119"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2119-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2120/" title="mcm_2120"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2120-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2123/" title="mcm_2123"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2123-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2127/" title="mcm_2127"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2127-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2128-2/" title="mcm_2128"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2128-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2130/" title="mcm_2130"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2130-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2131-2/" title="mcm_2131"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2131-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2132/" title="mcm_2132"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2132-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2133/" title="mcm_2133"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2133-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2136-2/" title="mcm_2136"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2136-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2145/" title="mcm_2145"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2145-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2158/" title="mcm_2158"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2158-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2160/" title="mcm_2160"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2160-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2161/" title="mcm_2161"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2161-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2165/" title="mcm_2165"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2165-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2172/" title="mcm_2172"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2172-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2173/" title="mcm_2173"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2173-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2174/" title="mcm_2174"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2174-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2175/" title="mcm_2175"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2175-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2177/" title="mcm_2177"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2177-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2178/" title="mcm_2178"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2178-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2195/" title="mcm_2195"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2195-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2197-2/" title="mcm_2197"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2197-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2198/" title="mcm_2198"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2198-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2202/" title="mcm_2202"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2202-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2203-2/" title="mcm_2203"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2203-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2204/" title="mcm_2204"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2204-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2206/" title="mcm_2206"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2206-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2208-2/" title="mcm_2208"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2208-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2209/" title="mcm_2209"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2209-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2210-2/" title="mcm_2210"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2210-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2216-2/" title="mcm_2216"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2216-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2219/" title="mcm_2219"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2219-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2220-2/" title="mcm_2220"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2220-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2221/" title="mcm_2221"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2221-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2227/" title="mcm_2227"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2227-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2230-2/" title="mcm_2230"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2230-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2232/" title="mcm_2232"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2232-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2235/" title="mcm_2235"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2235-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2236/" title="mcm_2236"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2236-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2241/" title="mcm_2241"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2241-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2244/" title="mcm_2244"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2244-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2246-2/" title="mcm_2246"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2246-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2248-2/" title="mcm_2248"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2248-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2250/" title="mcm_2250"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2250-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2257/" title="mcm_2257"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2257-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2258-2/" title="mcm_2258"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2258-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2267-2/" title="mcm_2267"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2267-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2269/" title="mcm_2269"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2269-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2271/" title="mcm_2271"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2271-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2278-2/" title="mcm_2278"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2278-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2282-2/" title="mcm_2282"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2282-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2286/" title="mcm_2286"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2286-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2289/" title="mcm_2289"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2289-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2303/" title="mcm_2303"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2303-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2305/" title="mcm_2305"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2305-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2330/" title="mcm_2330"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2330-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2333/" title="mcm_2333"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2333-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2335/" title="mcm_2335"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2335-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2336/" title="mcm_2336"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2336-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2341/" title="mcm_2341"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2341-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2344-2/" title="mcm_2344"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2344-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2348/" title="mcm_2348"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2348-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2352/" title="mcm_2352"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2352-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2356/" title="mcm_2356"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2356-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/friedrichshain-berlin-meetup/mcm_2360/" title="mcm_2360"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2360-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";}i:11;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:18:"Matt: Berlin Day 3";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7966";s:4:"link";s:34:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/";s:11:"description";s:22347:"<p>Exploring Alexanderplatz area and dinner party.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1818/" title="mcm_1818"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1818-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1821/" title="mcm_1821"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1821-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1822/" title="mcm_1822"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1822-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1824/" title="mcm_1824"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1824-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1825/" title="mcm_1825"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1825-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1832/" title="mcm_1832"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1832-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1833/" title="mcm_1833"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1833-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1835/" title="mcm_1835"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1835-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1836/" title="mcm_1836"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1836-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1838/" title="mcm_1838"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1838-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1840/" title="mcm_1840"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1840-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1842/" title="mcm_1842"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1842-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1843/" title="mcm_1843"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1843-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1845/" title="mcm_1845"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1845-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1849/" title="mcm_1849"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1849-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1850/" title="mcm_1850"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1850-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1852/" title="mcm_1852"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1852-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1853/" title="mcm_1853"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1853-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1854/" title="mcm_1854"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1854-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1857-2/" title="mcm_1857"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1857-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1862-2/" title="mcm_1862"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1862-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1863/" title="mcm_1863"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1863-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1865/" title="mcm_1865"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1865-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1867/" title="mcm_1867"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1867-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1868/" title="mcm_1868"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1868-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1869/" title="mcm_1869"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1869-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1870/" title="mcm_1870"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1870-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1871/" title="mcm_1871"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1871-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1872/" title="mcm_1872"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1872-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1875/" title="mcm_1875"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1875-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1876/" title="mcm_1876"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1876-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1877/" title="mcm_1877"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1877-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1880/" title="mcm_1880"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1880-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1885/" title="mcm_1885"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1885-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1887/" title="mcm_1887"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1887-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1888/" title="mcm_1888"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1888-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1889/" title="mcm_1889"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1889-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1891/" title="mcm_1891"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1891-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1894/" title="mcm_1894"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1894-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1895/" title="mcm_1895"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1895-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1896/" title="mcm_1896"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1896-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1898/" title="mcm_1898"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1898-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1900-2/" title="mcm_1900"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1900-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1904/" title="mcm_1904"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1904-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1906/" title="mcm_1906"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1906-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1907/" title="mcm_1907"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1907-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1908/" title="mcm_1908"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1908-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1909/" title="mcm_1909"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1909-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1910-2/" title="mcm_1910"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1910-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1911/" title="mcm_1911"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1911-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1912/" title="mcm_1912"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1912-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1913/" title="mcm_1913"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1913-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1914-2/" title="mcm_1914"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1914-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1916-2/" title="mcm_1916"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1916-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1917/" title="mcm_1917"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1917-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1919-2/" title="mcm_1919"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1919-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1924/" title="mcm_1924"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1924-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1930/" title="mcm_1930"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1930-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1935-2/" title="mcm_1935"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1935-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1937-2/" title="mcm_1937"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1937-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1940/" title="mcm_1940"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1940-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1941-2/" title="mcm_1941"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1941-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1942-2/" title="mcm_1942"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1942-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1944/" title="mcm_1944"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1944-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1945/" title="mcm_1945"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1945-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1946-2/" title="mcm_1946"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1946-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1948/" title="mcm_1948"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1948-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1949/" title="mcm_1949"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1949-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1951-2/" title="mcm_1951"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1951-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1952-2/" title="mcm_1952"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1952-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1953/" title="mcm_1953"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1953-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1956-2/" title="mcm_1956"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1956-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1957/" title="mcm_1957"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1957-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1963-2/" title="mcm_1963"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1963-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1964/" title="mcm_1964"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1964-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1967/" title="mcm_1967"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1967-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1969-2/" title="mcm_1969"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1969-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1971/" title="mcm_1971"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1971-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1973-2/" title="mcm_1973"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1973-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1975/" title="mcm_1975"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1975-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1976/" title="mcm_1976"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1976-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1978-2/" title="mcm_1978"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1978-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1979/" title="mcm_1979"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1979-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1981/" title="mcm_1981"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1981-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1983-2/" title="mcm_1983"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1983-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1985/" title="mcm_1985"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1985-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1989/" title="mcm_1989"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1989-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1995/" title="mcm_1995"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1995-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1997/" title="mcm_1997"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1997-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1999-2/" title="mcm_1999"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1999-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2000/" title="mcm_2000"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2000-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2018-2/" title="mcm_2018"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2018-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2021-2/" title="mcm_2021"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2021-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2023-2/" title="mcm_2023"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2023-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2027/" title="mcm_2027"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2027-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2036/" title="mcm_2036"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2036-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2039-2/" title="mcm_2039"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2039-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2040/" title="mcm_2040"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2040-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2042/" title="mcm_2042"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2042-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2043/" title="mcm_2043"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2043-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2053/" title="mcm_2053"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2053-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2061/" title="mcm_2061"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2061-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2066/" title="mcm_2066"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2066-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2067/" title="mcm_2067"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2067-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2068-2/" title="mcm_2068"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2068-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2078-2/" title="mcm_2078"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2078-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2079/" title="mcm_2079"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2079-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2085-2/" title="mcm_2085"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2085-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2091/" title="mcm_2091"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2091-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2099/" title="mcm_2099"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2099-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2103/" title="mcm_2103"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2103-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:30:19 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:22347:"<p>Exploring Alexanderplatz area and dinner party.</p>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1818/" title="mcm_1818"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1818-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1821/" title="mcm_1821"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1821-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1822/" title="mcm_1822"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1822-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1824/" title="mcm_1824"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1824-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1825/" title="mcm_1825"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1825-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1832/" title="mcm_1832"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1832-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1833/" title="mcm_1833"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1833-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1835/" title="mcm_1835"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1835-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1836/" title="mcm_1836"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1836-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1838/" title="mcm_1838"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1838-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1840/" title="mcm_1840"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1840-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1842/" title="mcm_1842"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1842-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1843/" title="mcm_1843"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1843-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1845/" title="mcm_1845"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1845-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1849/" title="mcm_1849"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1849-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1850/" title="mcm_1850"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1850-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1852/" title="mcm_1852"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1852-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1853/" title="mcm_1853"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1853-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1854/" title="mcm_1854"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1854-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1857-2/" title="mcm_1857"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1857-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1862-2/" title="mcm_1862"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1862-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1863/" title="mcm_1863"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1863-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1865/" title="mcm_1865"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1865-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1867/" title="mcm_1867"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1867-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1868/" title="mcm_1868"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1868-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1869/" title="mcm_1869"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1869-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1870/" title="mcm_1870"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1870-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1871/" title="mcm_1871"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1871-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1872/" title="mcm_1872"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1872-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1875/" title="mcm_1875"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1875-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1876/" title="mcm_1876"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1876-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1877/" title="mcm_1877"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1877-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1880/" title="mcm_1880"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1880-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1885/" title="mcm_1885"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1885-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1887/" title="mcm_1887"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1887-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1888/" title="mcm_1888"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1888-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1889/" title="mcm_1889"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1889-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1891/" title="mcm_1891"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1891-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1894/" title="mcm_1894"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1894-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1895/" title="mcm_1895"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1895-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1896/" title="mcm_1896"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1896-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1898/" title="mcm_1898"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1898-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1900-2/" title="mcm_1900"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1900-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1904/" title="mcm_1904"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1904-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1906/" title="mcm_1906"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1906-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1907/" title="mcm_1907"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1907-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1908/" title="mcm_1908"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1908-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1909/" title="mcm_1909"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1909-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1910-2/" title="mcm_1910"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1910-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1911/" title="mcm_1911"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1911-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1912/" title="mcm_1912"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1912-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1913/" title="mcm_1913"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1913-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1914-2/" title="mcm_1914"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1914-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1916-2/" title="mcm_1916"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1916-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1917/" title="mcm_1917"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1917-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1919-2/" title="mcm_1919"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1919-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1924/" title="mcm_1924"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1924-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1930/" title="mcm_1930"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1930-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1935-2/" title="mcm_1935"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1935-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1937-2/" title="mcm_1937"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1937-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1940/" title="mcm_1940"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1940-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1941-2/" title="mcm_1941"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1941-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1942-2/" title="mcm_1942"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1942-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1944/" title="mcm_1944"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1944-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1945/" title="mcm_1945"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1945-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1946-2/" title="mcm_1946"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1946-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1948/" title="mcm_1948"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1948-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1949/" title="mcm_1949"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1949-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1951-2/" title="mcm_1951"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1951-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1952-2/" title="mcm_1952"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1952-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1953/" title="mcm_1953"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1953-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1956-2/" title="mcm_1956"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1956-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1957/" title="mcm_1957"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1957-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1963-2/" title="mcm_1963"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1963-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1964/" title="mcm_1964"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1964-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1967/" title="mcm_1967"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1967-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1969-2/" title="mcm_1969"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1969-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1971/" title="mcm_1971"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1971-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1973-2/" title="mcm_1973"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1973-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1975/" title="mcm_1975"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1975-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1976/" title="mcm_1976"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1976-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1978-2/" title="mcm_1978"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1978-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1979/" title="mcm_1979"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1979-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1981/" title="mcm_1981"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1981-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1983-2/" title="mcm_1983"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1983-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1985/" title="mcm_1985"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1985-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1989/" title="mcm_1989"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1989-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1995/" title="mcm_1995"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1995-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1997/" title="mcm_1997"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1997-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_1999-2/" title="mcm_1999"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1999-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2000/" title="mcm_2000"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2000-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2018-2/" title="mcm_2018"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2018-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2021-2/" title="mcm_2021"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2021-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2023-2/" title="mcm_2023"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2023-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2027/" title="mcm_2027"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2027-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2036/" title="mcm_2036"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2036-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2039-2/" title="mcm_2039"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2039-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2040/" title="mcm_2040"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2040-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2042/" title="mcm_2042"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2042-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2043/" title="mcm_2043"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2043-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2053/" title="mcm_2053"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2053-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2061/" title="mcm_2061"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2061-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2066/" title="mcm_2066"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2066-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2067/" title="mcm_2067"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2067-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2068-2/" title="mcm_2068"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2068-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2078-2/" title="mcm_2078"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2078-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2079/" title="mcm_2079"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2079-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2085-2/" title="mcm_2085"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2085-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2091/" title="mcm_2091"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2091-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2099/" title="mcm_2099"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2099-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-day-3/mcm_2103/" title="mcm_2103"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_2103-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
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<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1789/" title="mcm_1789"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1789-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1791/" title="mcm_1791"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1791-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1793/" title="mcm_1793"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1793-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1795/" title="mcm_1795"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1795-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1800/" title="mcm_1800"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1800-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1804/" title="mcm_1804"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1804-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1806/" title="mcm_1806"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1806-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1808/" title="mcm_1808"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1808-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1809/" title="mcm_1809"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1809-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1810/" title="mcm_1810"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1810-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1811/" title="mcm_1811"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1811-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1812/" title="mcm_1812"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1812-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1815/" title="mcm_1815"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1815-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1816/" title="mcm_1816"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1816-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1817/" title="mcm_1817"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1817-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:15:27 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:3111:"<p>Flying over New York City and some Berlin vignettes.</p>
<p><span id="more-7946"></span></p>

<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1789/" title="mcm_1789"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1789-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1791/" title="mcm_1791"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1791-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1793/" title="mcm_1793"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1793-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1795/" title="mcm_1795"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1795-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1800/" title="mcm_1800"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1800-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1804/" title="mcm_1804"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1804-139x210.jpg" width="139" height="210" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1806/" title="mcm_1806"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1806-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1808/" title="mcm_1808"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1808-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1809/" title="mcm_1809"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1809-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1810/" title="mcm_1810"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1810-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1811/" title="mcm_1811"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1811-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1812/" title="mcm_1812"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1812-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1815/" title="mcm_1815"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1815-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1816/" title="mcm_1816"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1816-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href="http://ma.tt/2008/10/nyc-to-berlin/mcm_1817/" title="mcm_1817"><img src="http://s.ma.tt/files/2008/10/mcm_1817-195x129.jpg" width="195" height="129" class="attachment-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>";}i:13;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/14";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4363";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/14/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1014/";s:11:"description";s:2976:"<p><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/decker-wordpress-theme-released/"><strong>Decker</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/demos/index.php?wptheme=Decker+Theme"><img title="deckertheme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/deckertheme.jpg" border="0" alt="deckertheme" width="199" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with a 300×250 AdSense unit integrated on top of the sidebar</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/28/soho-wp-theme/"><strong>Soho</strong></a></p>
<p> <a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Soho"><img title="sohotr4" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/sohotr4.png" border="0" alt="sohotr4" width="150" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Soho consists of a fluid two column outfit with widgetized sidebars and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. CSS drop down menue, flickr is enabled in the themes options panel, tabbed sidebar and extensive footer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-dailypress/"><strong>DailyPress</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wpthemes.blogohblog.net/index.php?wptheme=dailypress"><img title="dailypress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/dailypress.gif" border="0" alt="dailypress" width="173" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>DailyPress comes with widget-ready sidebars, tabbed content, banner ads, minimalistic color scheme and social bookmarking options. The theme is compatible with all versions of WordPress including the latest 2.6 version and has been tested with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-firebug/"><strong>Firebug</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wpthemes.blogohblog.net/index.php?wptheme=firebug"><img title="firebug" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/firebug.gif" border="0" alt="firebug" width="156" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Firebug is a dark (but colorful) theme with two widget-ready sidebars, space for 125×125 banner ads, social tagging options at the end of each post, Gravatar ready comments, feed subscription options, WordPress 2.5+ Gallery feature, and much more.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-gridblog/"><strong>Gridblog</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wpthemes.blogohblog.net/index.php?wptheme=gridblog"><img title="gridblog1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/gridblog1.gif" border="0" alt="gridblog1" width="136" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Gridblog is a fast loading theme (only 36Kb in size) that has very little design elements but compensates with its functionality. It lets you display your front page blog entries uniquely by dividing them into two columns. The theme has different layout for pages, single entries and the archives section. Gridblog is fully CSS &amp; XHTML compliant and has been tested with both Internet Explorer and Firefox.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:25:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2976:"<p><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/decker-wordpress-theme-released/"><strong>Decker</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/demos/index.php?wptheme=Decker+Theme"><img title="deckertheme" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/deckertheme.jpg" border="0" alt="deckertheme" width="199" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with a 300×250 AdSense unit integrated on top of the sidebar</p>
<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/28/soho-wp-theme/"><strong>Soho</strong></a></p>
<p> <a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Soho"><img title="sohotr4" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/sohotr4.png" border="0" alt="sohotr4" width="150" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Soho consists of a fluid two column outfit with widgetized sidebars and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled. CSS drop down menue, flickr is enabled in the themes options panel, tabbed sidebar and extensive footer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-dailypress/"><strong>DailyPress</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wpthemes.blogohblog.net/index.php?wptheme=dailypress"><img title="dailypress" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/dailypress.gif" border="0" alt="dailypress" width="173" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>DailyPress comes with widget-ready sidebars, tabbed content, banner ads, minimalistic color scheme and social bookmarking options. The theme is compatible with all versions of WordPress including the latest 2.6 version and has been tested with Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-firebug/"><strong>Firebug</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wpthemes.blogohblog.net/index.php?wptheme=firebug"><img title="firebug" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/firebug.gif" border="0" alt="firebug" width="156" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Firebug is a dark (but colorful) theme with two widget-ready sidebars, space for 125×125 banner ads, social tagging options at the end of each post, Gravatar ready comments, feed subscription options, WordPress 2.5+ Gallery feature, and much more.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.blogohblog.com/wordpress-theme-gridblog/"><strong>Gridblog</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wpthemes.blogohblog.net/index.php?wptheme=gridblog"><img title="gridblog1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/gridblog1.gif" border="0" alt="gridblog1" width="136" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Gridblog is a fast loading theme (only 36Kb in size) that has very little design elements but compensates with its functionality. It lets you display your front page blog entries uniquely by dividing them into two columns. The theme has different layout for pages, single entries and the archives section. Gridblog is fully CSS &amp; XHTML compliant and has been tested with both Internet Explorer and Firefox.</p>";}i:14;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:20:"Matt: Fight Clubness";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7941";s:4:"link";s:36:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/fight-clubness/";s:11:"description";s:231:"<p><a href="http://lateralaction.com/articles/tyler-durden-innovation/">Tyler Durden&#8217;s 8 Rules of Innovation</a> and <a href="http://podictionary.com/?p=912">the word of the day on Podictionary is &#8220;slide.&#8221;</a></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:35:34 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:231:"<p><a href="http://lateralaction.com/articles/tyler-durden-innovation/">Tyler Durden&#8217;s 8 Rules of Innovation</a> and <a href="http://podictionary.com/?p=912">the word of the day on Podictionary is &#8220;slide.&#8221;</a></p>";}i:15;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Weblog Tools Collection: Free links to your site";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4353";s:4:"link";s:77:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/14/free-links-to-your-site/";s:11:"description";s:1656:"<p><a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/">Free links to your site</a>: I admit that the title of this post is a little sensational but that is how Matt Cutts puts it. In the post linked above, he talks about the newly introduced feature of <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/">Google Webmaster Portal</a> that allows users to <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/webmaster-tools-shows-crawl-error.html">find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site</a>. In his words (emphasis his) <strong>&#8220;Some of the easiest links you’ll ever get are when people tried to link to you and just messed up</strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>What was most useful for me in that post was a link to another post on the Google Webmaster Portal that <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/make-your-404-pages-more-useful.html">helps you create better 404 pages</a> using an experimental widget. Now I am sure there are ways to incorporate a Custom Search within the 404 without using the widget but I stuck with it because the output looked useful. <a href="http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/08/google-404-widget/">Quick Online Tips had a post on the Google Custom 404 widget</a> a couple of months ago that also talks about this widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/hotmail">This link to a fictitious &#8220;hotmail&#8221; page</a> is an example of the output that our 404.php (in the theme folder) at weblogtoolscollection.com generates.<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/hotmail"></a> We still need to fix the footer and the sidebars but it works for now.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:10:17 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:1656:"<p><a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/free-direct-text-links/">Free links to your site</a>: I admit that the title of this post is a little sensational but that is how Matt Cutts puts it. In the post linked above, he talks about the newly introduced feature of <a href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/">Google Webmaster Portal</a> that allows users to <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/webmaster-tools-shows-crawl-error.html">find the pages that link to 404 pages on your site</a>. In his words (emphasis his) <strong>&#8220;Some of the easiest links you’ll ever get are when people tried to link to you and just messed up</strong>.&#8221;</p>
<p>What was most useful for me in that post was a link to another post on the Google Webmaster Portal that <a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/08/make-your-404-pages-more-useful.html">helps you create better 404 pages</a> using an experimental widget. Now I am sure there are ways to incorporate a Custom Search within the 404 without using the widget but I stuck with it because the output looked useful. <a href="http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2008/08/google-404-widget/">Quick Online Tips had a post on the Google Custom 404 widget</a> a couple of months ago that also talks about this widget.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/hotmail">This link to a fictitious &#8220;hotmail&#8221; page</a> is an example of the output that our 404.php (in the theme folder) at weblogtoolscollection.com generates.<a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/hotmail"></a> We still need to fix the footer and the sidebars but it works for now.</p>";}i:16;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:48:"Akismet: Akismet Plugin for Akelos PHP Framework";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://akismet.wordpress.com/?p=101";s:4:"link";s:75:"http://blog.akismet.com/2008/10/14/akismet-plugin-for-akelos-php-framework/";s:11:"description";s:1507:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://bermi.org/">Bermi Ferrer</a> wrote an Akismet plugin for the <a href="http://akelos.org">Akelos PHP Framework</a>, a Rails port to PHP. Check out <a href="http://wiki.akelos.org/akismet">his documentation on the Akelos wiki</a> and grab the code <a href="http://svn.akelos.org/plugins/akismet/">here</a>.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=101&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:52:58 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1507:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://bermi.org/">Bermi Ferrer</a> wrote an Akismet plugin for the <a href="http://akelos.org">Akelos PHP Framework</a>, a Rails port to PHP. Check out <a href="http://wiki.akelos.org/akismet">his documentation on the Akelos wiki</a> and grab the code <a href="http://svn.akelos.org/plugins/akismet/">here</a>.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/akismet.wordpress.com/101/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/akismet.wordpress.com/101/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.akismet.com&blog=116920&post=101&subd=akismet&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:17;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/13";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4350";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/13/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1013/";s:11:"description";s:3376:"<h3>New Releases</h3>
<p><a href="http://rainy-bow.com/simple-link.html"><strong>Simple Link</strong></a></p>
<p>Simple Link is a plugin that enables you to add links to a posted post on certain text you selected with just a click.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bin-co.com/tools/wordpress/plugins/db_backup/"><strong>Remote Database Backup</strong></a></p>
<p>Remotely create and download wordpress database backup in form of SQL dumps. You can then use these dumps to sync the local version of your site with the online version.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.logos.com/reftagger"><strong>RefTagger</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin provides an easy way to use the RefTagger Bible reference tagging script from Logos Bible Software.</p>
<p><a href="http://making-the-web.com/stumble-for-wordpress/"><strong>Stumble!</strong></a></p>
<p>Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a &#8220;random article&#8221; feature, similar to StumbleUpon&#8217;s StumbleThru and Wikipedia&#8217;s (Mediawiki&#8217;s) ran.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-single-file-php-gallery/"><strong>Wordpress Single File PHP Gallery</strong></a></p>
<p>Wordpress Single File PHP Gallery is a gallery in one single PHP file. All you have to do is copy the file to any directory containing JPG, JPEG, PNG or GIF images to make a gallery.</p>
<h5><a href="http://www.brandinfection.com/wordpress-plugins/most-comments/"><strong>Most Comments</strong></a></h5>
<p>Display posts with the most comments, as a widget or on a page using the template tag. Customize the look with specific settings.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.23systems.net/plugins/lightbox-plus/"><strong>Lightbox Plus</strong></a></p>
<p>Lightbox Plus is a plugin that implements Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar. Lightbox Plus is used to create overlay display images on the webpage and to automatically add the correct overlay links to images. Lightbox Plus captures the image title for display using a fairly robust regex to capture most character that may appear as part of the title.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.23systems.net/plugins/facelift-image-replacement-flir/"><strong>Facelift Image Replacement</strong></a></p>
<p>Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers (h1, h2) to span elements and everything in between!</p>
<p><a href="http://forgani.com/index.php/tools/wpclassiefied-plugins/"><strong>wp-classified</strong></a></p>
<p>The wpClassified plugin allows you to add a simple classifieds page in to your WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crazyiven.de/wordpress-plugins/mytreasures/"><strong>myTreasures</strong></a></p>
<p>The myTreasures project derived from the idea of presenting your own dvd collection nice and informatively in the internet.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.commentluv.com/download/ajax-commentluv-installation/"><strong>CommentLuv</strong></a></p>
<p>Appends a titled link using AJAX to the authors last blog post on their comment giving back some luv to the people that join your discussion</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:36:13 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3376:"<h3>New Releases</h3>
<p><a href="http://rainy-bow.com/simple-link.html"><strong>Simple Link</strong></a></p>
<p>Simple Link is a plugin that enables you to add links to a posted post on certain text you selected with just a click.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bin-co.com/tools/wordpress/plugins/db_backup/"><strong>Remote Database Backup</strong></a></p>
<p>Remotely create and download wordpress database backup in form of SQL dumps. You can then use these dumps to sync the local version of your site with the online version.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.logos.com/reftagger"><strong>RefTagger</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin provides an easy way to use the RefTagger Bible reference tagging script from Logos Bible Software.</p>
<p><a href="http://making-the-web.com/stumble-for-wordpress/"><strong>Stumble!</strong></a></p>
<p>Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a &#8220;random article&#8221; feature, similar to StumbleUpon&#8217;s StumbleThru and Wikipedia&#8217;s (Mediawiki&#8217;s) ran.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-single-file-php-gallery/"><strong>Wordpress Single File PHP Gallery</strong></a></p>
<p>Wordpress Single File PHP Gallery is a gallery in one single PHP file. All you have to do is copy the file to any directory containing JPG, JPEG, PNG or GIF images to make a gallery.</p>
<h5><a href="http://www.brandinfection.com/wordpress-plugins/most-comments/"><strong>Most Comments</strong></a></h5>
<p>Display posts with the most comments, as a widget or on a page using the template tag. Customize the look with specific settings.</p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.23systems.net/plugins/lightbox-plus/"><strong>Lightbox Plus</strong></a></p>
<p>Lightbox Plus is a plugin that implements Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar. Lightbox Plus is used to create overlay display images on the webpage and to automatically add the correct overlay links to images. Lightbox Plus captures the image title for display using a fairly robust regex to capture most character that may appear as part of the title.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.23systems.net/plugins/facelift-image-replacement-flir/"><strong>Facelift Image Replacement</strong></a></p>
<p>Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors. The generated image will be automatically inserted into your web page via Javascript and visible to all modern browsers. Any element with text can be replaced: from headers (h1, h2) to span elements and everything in between!</p>
<p><a href="http://forgani.com/index.php/tools/wpclassiefied-plugins/"><strong>wp-classified</strong></a></p>
<p>The wpClassified plugin allows you to add a simple classifieds page in to your WordPress blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.crazyiven.de/wordpress-plugins/mytreasures/"><strong>myTreasures</strong></a></p>
<p>The myTreasures project derived from the idea of presenting your own dvd collection nice and informatively in the internet.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.commentluv.com/download/ajax-commentluv-installation/"><strong>CommentLuv</strong></a></p>
<p>Appends a titled link using AJAX to the authors last blog post on their comment giving back some luv to the people that join your discussion</p>";}i:18;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:47:"Gravatar: Gravatar Importer for Google Contacts";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=84";s:4:"link";s:61:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/10/13/gravatar-importer-google/";s:11:"description";s:1570:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.arikfr.com/blog/about">Arik Fraimovich</a> has released <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gravatar-importer/">an open source .NET app</a> that <a href="http://www.arikfr.com/blog/gravats-to-google-contacts-importer.html">syncs your Google contacts with their Gravatars</a>, using the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/">Google Contacts Data API</a>.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=84&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:48:00 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Heather";}s:7:"summary";s:1570:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.arikfr.com/blog/about">Arik Fraimovich</a> has released <a href="http://code.google.com/p/gravatar-importer/">an open source .NET app</a> that <a href="http://www.arikfr.com/blog/gravats-to-google-contacts-importer.html">syncs your Google contacts with their Gravatars</a>, using the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/">Google Contacts Data API</a>.</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/84/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=84&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:19;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Dougal Campbell: It’s Time for Some Changes";s:4:"guid";s:33:"http://dougal.gunters.org/?p=1126";s:4:"link";s:58:"http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2008/10/13/time-for-changes";s:11:"description";s:3037:"<p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/trevorh/491898939/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1132" title="Construction Sign" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/construction_sign_491898939_a098bb0235_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="160" /></a>I&#8217;ve been saying for years that I want to redesign this site, but I still haven&#8217;t made many substantive changes. One of my favorite sayings is, &#8220;The cobbler&#8217;s children oft go without shoes.&#8221; It certainly applies to this site, as I spend a lot of time doing web development, studying programming, <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> techniques, <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym>, user interfaces, and many other related disciplines that make up this craft. But my own site rarely changes, and I certainly haven&#8217;t applied all of the things I&#8217;ve learned. I think it&#8217;s time for that to change.</p>
<p>Starting Real Soon Now, you will start seeing some improvements around here. For one thing, I&#8217;m going to start posting more frequently. My current plan is to post at least once per week, with a new series called &#8220;WordPress Wednesday&#8221;. Every Wednesday, I will be posting something <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>-related. It might be something short, like a pointer to some other article worth looking at, it might be a long article of my own, it might be an update to one of my plugins, and it may often be notes about changes I&#8217;m making to this site. I&#8217;m also thinking that I might occasionally have &#8220;Fun Friday&#8221; and &#8220;Media Monday&#8221; posts. I had originally considered &#8220;Music Monday&#8221;, but &#8220;media&#8221; is more general, and lets me cover movies, television, books, etc. I probably won&#8217;t do those every week, but expect to see them from time to time.</p>
<p>Also, as I just mentioned, I&#8217;m going to start making site design changes. I will probably continue to work on a completely new theme in the background, for launch in the indefinite future. But in the meantime, I will make improvements to the current theme. I want to give more prominence to features like feed and email subscriptions, my WordPress plugins and other projects, and &#8220;lifestream&#8221; features like my delicious bookmarks, Flickr photos, and Twitter messages. I will also make more subtle design changes, like tweaks to fonts, text size, colors, etc., as well.</p>
<p>While I will probably continue to post the occasional personal item, but I will focus mostly on more technical, web development topics. I think that these changes will make this site more useful to you, my readers. Of course, I&#8217;m open to suggestions, so if you have an idea that you think would improve this site, or a topic that you would like me to write about, <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/contact">contact me</a>, and I&#8217;ll put it in my idea box!</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:07:47 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:6:"Dougal";}s:7:"summary";s:3037:"<p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/trevorh/491898939/"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1132" title="Construction Sign" src="http://dougal.gunters.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/construction_sign_491898939_a098bb0235_m.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="160" /></a>I&#8217;ve been saying for years that I want to redesign this site, but I still haven&#8217;t made many substantive changes. One of my favorite sayings is, &#8220;The cobbler&#8217;s children oft go without shoes.&#8221; It certainly applies to this site, as I spend a lot of time doing web development, studying programming, <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets"><span class="caps">CSS</span></acronym> techniques, <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization"><span class="caps">SEO</span></acronym>, user interfaces, and many other related disciplines that make up this craft. But my own site rarely changes, and I certainly haven&#8217;t applied all of the things I&#8217;ve learned. I think it&#8217;s time for that to change.</p>
<p>Starting Real Soon Now, you will start seeing some improvements around here. For one thing, I&#8217;m going to start posting more frequently. My current plan is to post at least once per week, with a new series called &#8220;WordPress Wednesday&#8221;. Every Wednesday, I will be posting something <a href="http://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>-related. It might be something short, like a pointer to some other article worth looking at, it might be a long article of my own, it might be an update to one of my plugins, and it may often be notes about changes I&#8217;m making to this site. I&#8217;m also thinking that I might occasionally have &#8220;Fun Friday&#8221; and &#8220;Media Monday&#8221; posts. I had originally considered &#8220;Music Monday&#8221;, but &#8220;media&#8221; is more general, and lets me cover movies, television, books, etc. I probably won&#8217;t do those every week, but expect to see them from time to time.</p>
<p>Also, as I just mentioned, I&#8217;m going to start making site design changes. I will probably continue to work on a completely new theme in the background, for launch in the indefinite future. But in the meantime, I will make improvements to the current theme. I want to give more prominence to features like feed and email subscriptions, my WordPress plugins and other projects, and &#8220;lifestream&#8221; features like my delicious bookmarks, Flickr photos, and Twitter messages. I will also make more subtle design changes, like tweaks to fonts, text size, colors, etc., as well.</p>
<p>While I will probably continue to post the occasional personal item, but I will focus mostly on more technical, web development topics. I think that these changes will make this site more useful to you, my readers. Of course, I&#8217;m open to suggestions, so if you have an idea that you think would improve this site, or a topic that you would like me to write about, <a href="http://dougal.gunters.org/contact">contact me</a>, and I&#8217;ll put it in my idea box!</p>";}i:20;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:74:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress MU Plugin Competition Winners Announced";s:4:"guid";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/13/wordpress-mu-plugin-competition-winners-announced/";s:4:"link";s:103:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/13/wordpress-mu-plugin-competition-winners-announced/";s:11:"description";s:404:"<p><a href="http://wpmu.org/">WPMU.org - WordPress MU plugins Competition Winners Announced</a>. The team over at WMPU.org just announced the winners of their own Plugin Competition for WordPress MU. Go over there to congratulate the winners and <a href="http://wpmu.org/2008-wpmu-plugin-competition/">check out the rest of the plugin entries</a>. FYI: most of these are ONLY WordPress MU compatible.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:51:12 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:404:"<p><a href="http://wpmu.org/">WPMU.org - WordPress MU plugins Competition Winners Announced</a>. The team over at WMPU.org just announced the winners of their own Plugin Competition for WordPress MU. Go over there to congratulate the winners and <a href="http://wpmu.org/2008-wpmu-plugin-competition/">check out the rest of the plugin entries</a>. FYI: most of these are ONLY WordPress MU compatible.</p>";}i:21;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:57:"Lorelle on WP: The Real Benefits of Sponsoring a WordCamp";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3100";s:4:"link";s:83:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/the-real-benefits-of-sponsoring-a-wordcamp/";s:11:"description";s:13424:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.beachwalks.tv/2008/10/08/beach-walk-697-negotiation-secrets/" title="Beach Walk 697 - Negotiation Secrets">Roxanne Darling</a>, the organizer of <a href="http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/" title="Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawaii at Hawaii Convention Center">Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii</a>, October 24, 2008, is encouraging everyone to help make this Podcamp and WordCamp a success and supporting their sponsors by blogging about them.</p>
<p>While you should blog about them and support sponsors of WordCamp and WordPress Events, there is a bigger benefit to being a WordCamp sponsor. The rewards are invaluable, going way beyond just links!</p>
<p>As you plan your WordCamp event, Hawaii is a prime example to follow. Look at the list below carefully.</p>
<p>Most WordCamp organizers I&#8217;ve worked with stick with &#8220;known&#8221; sponsors related to blogging and web technology. While Hawaii includes many web tech companies as sponsors, they&#8217;ve reached out beyond to travel and tourist industries, Johnson and Johnson (known more for health care products than blogging), hotels, advertising and marketing agencies, and even a center for disability studies. This is a prize example of being <em>inclusive</em> rather than exclusive with a WordPress or tech event.</p>
<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t your attendees be interested in more than just web tech companies? While our blogs are dependent upon host servers, video services, podcast services, and search engines, why not be inclusive to a wide variety of industries to help promote and cover the financial burden of your event? </p>
<p>Bloggers blog about anything and everything. They also have niches such as sports blogging, medical blogging, political blogging, science blogging, home and garden blogging, knitting blogging, bowling blogging - why not help them connect with representatives of their interests?</p>
<p>These businesses also have a lot to learn about the social web and <em>want and need</em> connections with bloggers and social media experienced experts. </p>
<p>The list of sponsors for Podcamp/WordCamp Hawaii include:<br />
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.wylandwaikiki.com/" title="Wyland Waikiki Hotel">Wyland Waikiki Hotel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.viddler.com/" title="Viddler">Viddler</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.vantagecounsel.com/" title="Vantage Counsel">Vantage Counsel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.roadrunner.com/" title="Road Runner High Speed Internet">Road Runner High Speed Internet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rawvoice.com/" title="RawVoice">RawVoice</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.projection.com/" title="Projection Presentation Technology">Projection Presentation Technology</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.princeresortshawaii.com/" title="Hawaii Prince Hotel">Hawaii Prince Hotel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.podcastconnect.com/" title="Podcast Connect">Podcast Connect</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pdchawaii.com/" title="Pacific Direct Connect">Pacific Direct Connect</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pacrimmarketing.com/" title="PacRim Marketing Group">PacRim Marketing Group</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.knowhowcafe.com/" title="KnowHow Cafe">KnowHow Cafe</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jnj.com/" title="Johnson &amp; Johnson">Johnson &amp; Johnson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.hawaiiconvention.com/" title="Hawaii Convention Center">Hawaii Convention Center</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gohawaii.com/" title="Hawaii Visitors &amp; Convention Bureau">Hawaii Visitors &amp; Convention Bureau</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bluehawaiilifestyle.com/" title="Blue Hawaii Lifestyle">Blue Hawaii Lifestyle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blip.tv/" title="Blip.tv">Blip.tv</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cds.hawaii.edu/" title="UH Center on Disability Studies">UH Center on Disability Studies</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Learning Social Media from a Concrete Company</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.cart-awayconcrete.com/" title="Cart-Away Concrete"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cartawaylogo.png?w=410&#038;h=110" alt="" title="Cart-away Concrete" width="410" height="110" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3101" /></a>At <a href="http://www.blogworldexpo.com/" title="Blog World Expo in Las Vegas">Blog World Expo in Las Vegas</a> a few weeks ago, I met Bruce Christensen and Tom Vail of <a href="http://www.cart-awayconcrete.com/" title="Cart-Away Concrete">Cart-Away Concrete</a>, exhibitors. They caught the attention of many of the attendees and other sponsors because they were there to learn, not sell. They didn&#8217;t have anything to offer bloggers or blog businesses. Yet, they brought their portable cement mixer to the Las Vegas Exhibition Hall along with their bight neon yellow t-shirts, business cards, and brochures. Why?</p>
<p>Tom and Bruce came to the event with minds and hearts open. They knew they had to get into this &#8220;social media stuff&#8221; and they had to learn hard and fast. They have a national franchise and network that connects construction experts with jobs and jobs with construction experts and equipment, in addition to providing concrete and construction equipment. With the changing economy, they know they have to work harder within the new virtual economy with this new &#8220;social thing&#8221; to get the exposure and connections they need. </p>
<p>Not knowing where to turn for a fast education in the new social media, they paid their way into the biggest meeting of social media experts: <em>bloggers</em>.</p>
<p>Think about this. If they wanted to learn about online social networking and capital, they could have bought a book. They could have turned to someone in their home town who may or may not have the experience they needed, paid them a little money, and be no better off than they were. They could cast a wide net and spend a lot of time interviewing so called &#8220;social media experts&#8221; in marketing, public relations, and web development, and still outlaid a lot of cash, but with no basis to help them decide who is the right expert for their business, it&#8217;s money paid without faith in a return. </p>
<p>Not knowing what to do or where to start, they decided to put themselves right in the middle of the snake pit and just ask for help. It&#8217;s cheaper in the long run, and exposed themselves to thousands of people who had the answers.</p>
<p>Think they didn&#8217;t get a boost back for dragging their concrete mixer from McMinnville, Oregon, to Las Vegas, Nevada?</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://100kjob.info/2008/10/03/while-the-economy-is-in-recession-the-blog-world-is-bubbling-up/" title="While The Economy Is In Recession, The Blog World Is Bubbling Up">100k Job From Home - hile The Economy Is In Recession, The Blog World Is Bubbling Up</a></li>
<li><a href="http://drforgot.blogspot.com/2008/09/blogworld-expo.html" title="Blogworld Expo">Dr. Forgot - Blogworld Expo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://johnhawkinsunrated.com/forward-thinking-and-cement-mixers" title="Forward Thinking and Cement Mixers">John Hawkins Unrated - Forward Thinking and Cement Mixers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://martyfahncke.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/market-where-you-will-stand-out-from-the-crowd/" title="Market where you will stand out from the crowd">Marty Fahncke - Market where you will stand out from the crowd</a></li>
<li><a href="http://starsandmuses.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/blogworld08-part-ii/" title="Blogworld08, Part II">Stars and Muses - Blogworld08, Part II</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.benspark.com/my-interview-with-cart-away.html" title="My Interview with Cart-Away">Ben Spark - My Interview with Cart-Away</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.johnchow.com/blog-world-expo-why/" title="Blog World Expo - Why?">John Chow - Blog World Expo - Why?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/techreviews/2008/09/20/report-from-blogworld-low-key-fun" title="Blogging is still fun">Asymmetric - Report from Blogworld: Blogging is still fun</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.smallbizsurvival.com/2008/09/why-is-cart-away-at-blogworld-expo.html" title="Why is Cart-Away at BlogWorld Expo?">Small Business Survival - Why is Cart-Away at BlogWorld Expo?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://xfep.com/conference/blog-world-expo-business-cards/" title="Blog World Expo Business Cards">extra For Every Publisher - Blog World Expo Business Cards</a></li>
</ul>
<p>When you prepare yourself to talk to potential sponsors, use Cart-Away Concrete as your example. By being surrounded with bloggers and social media experts who were fascinated by the total incongruity of a cement mixer being at a blogging conference, they won. They also won by being with business people who admitted, &#8220;Hey, we don&#8217;t know what you do but we want to be a part of it. You know how to do this. Tell us what you know.&#8221; </p>
<p>Who wouldn&#8217;t love that!</p>
<p>Few booths attracted the attention these two guys did. Even if no one was talking to them, they were talking about them throughout the conference. &#8220;Hey, did you see that cement mixer? What is a cement mixer doing at a blog conference? Instead of selling me something, these guys wanted me to sell them on blogging. Go figure!&#8221;</p>
<p>What more could a sponsor want?</p>
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Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3100&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:02:56 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:13424:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://www.beachwalks.tv/2008/10/08/beach-walk-697-negotiation-secrets/" title="Beach Walk 697 - Negotiation Secrets">Roxanne Darling</a>, the organizer of <a href="http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/" title="Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawaii at Hawaii Convention Center">Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii</a>, October 24, 2008, is encouraging everyone to help make this Podcamp and WordCamp a success and supporting their sponsors by blogging about them.</p>
<p>While you should blog about them and support sponsors of WordCamp and WordPress Events, there is a bigger benefit to being a WordCamp sponsor. The rewards are invaluable, going way beyond just links!</p>
<p>As you plan your WordCamp event, Hawaii is a prime example to follow. Look at the list below carefully.</p>
<p>Most WordCamp organizers I&#8217;ve worked with stick with &#8220;known&#8221; sponsors related to blogging and web technology. While Hawaii includes many web tech companies as sponsors, they&#8217;ve reached out beyond to travel and tourist industries, Johnson and Johnson (known more for health care products than blogging), hotels, advertising and marketing agencies, and even a center for disability studies. This is a prize example of being <em>inclusive</em> rather than exclusive with a WordPress or tech event.</p>
<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t your attendees be interested in more than just web tech companies? While our blogs are dependent upon host servers, video services, podcast services, and search engines, why not be inclusive to a wide variety of industries to help promote and cover the financial burden of your event? </p>
<p>Bloggers blog about anything and everything. They also have niches such as sports blogging, medical blogging, political blogging, science blogging, home and garden blogging, knitting blogging, bowling blogging - why not help them connect with representatives of their interests?</p>
<p>These businesses also have a lot to learn about the social web and <em>want and need</em> connections with bloggers and social media experienced experts. </p>
<p>The list of sponsors for Podcamp/WordCamp Hawaii include:<br />
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.wylandwaikiki.com/" title="Wyland Waikiki Hotel">Wyland Waikiki Hotel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.viddler.com/" title="Viddler">Viddler</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.vantagecounsel.com/" title="Vantage Counsel">Vantage Counsel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.roadrunner.com/" title="Road Runner High Speed Internet">Road Runner High Speed Internet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.rawvoice.com/" title="RawVoice">RawVoice</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.projection.com/" title="Projection Presentation Technology">Projection Presentation Technology</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.princeresortshawaii.com/" title="Hawaii Prince Hotel">Hawaii Prince Hotel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.podcastconnect.com/" title="Podcast Connect">Podcast Connect</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pdchawaii.com/" title="Pacific Direct Connect">Pacific Direct Connect</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pacrimmarketing.com/" title="PacRim Marketing Group">PacRim Marketing Group</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.knowhowcafe.com/" title="KnowHow Cafe">KnowHow Cafe</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jnj.com/" title="Johnson &amp; Johnson">Johnson &amp; Johnson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.hawaiiconvention.com/" title="Hawaii Convention Center">Hawaii Convention Center</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gohawaii.com/" title="Hawaii Visitors &amp; Convention Bureau">Hawaii Visitors &amp; Convention Bureau</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bluehawaiilifestyle.com/" title="Blue Hawaii Lifestyle">Blue Hawaii Lifestyle</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.blip.tv/" title="Blip.tv">Blip.tv</a></li>
<li><a href="http://cds.hawaii.edu/" title="UH Center on Disability Studies">UH Center on Disability Studies</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Learning Social Media from a Concrete Company</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.cart-awayconcrete.com/" title="Cart-Away Concrete"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cartawaylogo.png?w=410&#038;h=110" alt="" title="Cart-away Concrete" width="410" height="110" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3101" /></a>At <a href="http://www.blogworldexpo.com/" title="Blog World Expo in Las Vegas">Blog World Expo in Las Vegas</a> a few weeks ago, I met Bruce Christensen and Tom Vail of <a href="http://www.cart-awayconcrete.com/" title="Cart-Away Concrete">Cart-Away Concrete</a>, exhibitors. They caught the attention of many of the attendees and other sponsors because they were there to learn, not sell. They didn&#8217;t have anything to offer bloggers or blog businesses. Yet, they brought their portable cement mixer to the Las Vegas Exhibition Hall along with their bight neon yellow t-shirts, business cards, and brochures. Why?</p>
<p>Tom and Bruce came to the event with minds and hearts open. They knew they had to get into this &#8220;social media stuff&#8221; and they had to learn hard and fast. They have a national franchise and network that connects construction experts with jobs and jobs with construction experts and equipment, in addition to providing concrete and construction equipment. With the changing economy, they know they have to work harder within the new virtual economy with this new &#8220;social thing&#8221; to get the exposure and connections they need. </p>
<p>Not knowing where to turn for a fast education in the new social media, they paid their way into the biggest meeting of social media experts: <em>bloggers</em>.</p>
<p>Think about this. If they wanted to learn about online social networking and capital, they could have bought a book. They could have turned to someone in their home town who may or may not have the experience they needed, paid them a little money, and be no better off than they were. They could cast a wide net and spend a lot of time interviewing so called &#8220;social media experts&#8221; in marketing, public relations, and web development, and still outlaid a lot of cash, but with no basis to help them decide who is the right expert for their business, it&#8217;s money paid without faith in a return. </p>
<p>Not knowing what to do or where to start, they decided to put themselves right in the middle of the snake pit and just ask for help. It&#8217;s cheaper in the long run, and exposed themselves to thousands of people who had the answers.</p>
<p>Think they didn&#8217;t get a boost back for dragging their concrete mixer from McMinnville, Oregon, to Las Vegas, Nevada?</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://100kjob.info/2008/10/03/while-the-economy-is-in-recession-the-blog-world-is-bubbling-up/" title="While The Economy Is In Recession, The Blog World Is Bubbling Up">100k Job From Home - hile The Economy Is In Recession, The Blog World Is Bubbling Up</a></li>
<li><a href="http://drforgot.blogspot.com/2008/09/blogworld-expo.html" title="Blogworld Expo">Dr. Forgot - Blogworld Expo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://johnhawkinsunrated.com/forward-thinking-and-cement-mixers" title="Forward Thinking and Cement Mixers">John Hawkins Unrated - Forward Thinking and Cement Mixers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://martyfahncke.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/market-where-you-will-stand-out-from-the-crowd/" title="Market where you will stand out from the crowd">Marty Fahncke - Market where you will stand out from the crowd</a></li>
<li><a href="http://starsandmuses.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/blogworld08-part-ii/" title="Blogworld08, Part II">Stars and Muses - Blogworld08, Part II</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.benspark.com/my-interview-with-cart-away.html" title="My Interview with Cart-Away">Ben Spark - My Interview with Cart-Away</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.johnchow.com/blog-world-expo-why/" title="Blog World Expo - Why?">John Chow - Blog World Expo - Why?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nelsonguirado.com/index.php/techreviews/2008/09/20/report-from-blogworld-low-key-fun" title="Blogging is still fun">Asymmetric - Report from Blogworld: Blogging is still fun</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.smallbizsurvival.com/2008/09/why-is-cart-away-at-blogworld-expo.html" title="Why is Cart-Away at BlogWorld Expo?">Small Business Survival - Why is Cart-Away at BlogWorld Expo?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://xfep.com/conference/blog-world-expo-business-cards/" title="Blog World Expo Business Cards">extra For Every Publisher - Blog World Expo Business Cards</a></li>
</ul>
<p>When you prepare yourself to talk to potential sponsors, use Cart-Away Concrete as your example. By being surrounded with bloggers and social media experts who were fascinated by the total incongruity of a cement mixer being at a blogging conference, they won. They also won by being with business people who admitted, &#8220;Hey, we don&#8217;t know what you do but we want to be a part of it. You know how to do this. Tell us what you know.&#8221; </p>
<p>Who wouldn&#8217;t love that!</p>
<p>Few booths attracted the attention these two guys did. Even if no one was talking to them, they were talking about them throughout the conference. &#8220;Hey, did you see that cement mixer? What is a cement mixer doing at a blog conference? Instead of selling me something, these guys wanted me to sell them on blogging. Go figure!&#8221;</p>
<p>What more could a sponsor want?</p>
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Posted in Blogging Tips, WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3100/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3100&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:22;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:36:"Matt: Jose Saramago on WordPress.com";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7934";s:4:"link";s:48:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/jose-saramago-on-wordpress/";s:11:"description";s:583:"<p>Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago <a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/jose-saramago-85-starts-blog">has two blogs on WordPress.com</a>: <a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/">O Caderno de Saramago</a> and <a href="http://cuaderno.josesaramago.org/">El Cuaderno de Saramago</a>. Saramago, 85, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. One of his novels, <em>Blindness</em> was turned into <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/">a movie of the same name</a>, released this month. (Hat tip: <a href="http://www.marketingdebusca.com/">Antonio Dias</a>)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:40:21 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:583:"<p>Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago <a href="http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/jose-saramago-85-starts-blog">has two blogs on WordPress.com</a>: <a href="http://caderno.josesaramago.org/">O Caderno de Saramago</a> and <a href="http://cuaderno.josesaramago.org/">El Cuaderno de Saramago</a>. Saramago, 85, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998. One of his novels, <em>Blindness</em> was turned into <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/">a movie of the same name</a>, released this month. 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This article should be especially useful to theme authors out there who are looking at providing custom field functionality into their work.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:09:46 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:661:"<p>Nathan Rice who is a prominent theme author within the WordPress community has <a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/an-easy-way-to-get-the-contents-of-a-custom-field/" target="_blank">published an article</a> that explains an easy way to retrieve the contents of a <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields" target="_blank">custom field</a>. Instead of doing things the conventional way, Nathan explains how to simply use a function in order to call the contents of the custom field into a theme. This article should be especially useful to theme authors out there who are looking at providing custom field functionality into their work.</p>";}i:24;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:73:"Lorelle on WP: Hawaii Geek Week Features Podcamps, WordCamps, and Lorelle";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3094";s:4:"link";s:97:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/hawaii-geek-week-features-podcamps-wordcamps-and-lorelle/";s:11:"description";s:10807:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>October 18-25 has been declared <a href="http://www.hmaus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/proclamation2008mrf032008.pdf" title="October 18 to 25, 2008 as Hawaii Geek Week">Hawaii Geek Week</a> in honor of a packed week of technology conferences, and I&#8217;m going to be at most of them!</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.hmaus.com/index.php/open-forum/dear-governor-lingle/" title="special proclamation">special proclamation</a> <a href="http://www.hmaus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/proclamation2008mrf032008.pdf" title="October 18 to 25, 2008 as Hawaii Geek Week">(pdf copy)</a> honoring Hawaii&#8217;s contributions to technology was facilitated by <a href="http://www.hmaus.com" title="Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users Society">Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users Society (HMAUS)</a> and their Secretary and Ambassador Eugene Villaluz.</p>
<p>There are a ton of mostly free events, workshops, conferences, and meetings, during Hawaii Geek Week. They include:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hmaus.com/index.php/meetings-workshops/mactoberfest/" title="www.hmaus.com"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/macoctoberfest2008.png?w=200&#038;h=100" alt="" title="macoctoberfest2008 in hawaii" width="200" height="100" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3036" /></a><a href="http://www.hmaus.com/index.php/meetings-workshops/mactoberfest/" title="www.hmaus.com"><strong>Mactoberfest - Saturday, October 18, 2008:</strong></a> A free annual event by <a href="http://www.hmaus.com" title="Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users Society">HMAUS</a> with guest speakers covering computer technology, blogging, WordPress, and photography, and features keynote by <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a> on how WordPress changes lives, and a panel discussion on the past, present, and future of technology, as this is event is part of the 30th anniversary of the organization.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hmaus.com/index.php/meetings-workshops/web-weavers-workshop/" title="Web Weavers Workshop"><strong>Web Weavers Workshop - Wednesday, October 22, 2008:</strong></a> A day long workshop on blogging, social media, and WordPress with <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a>, author of <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/" title="Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen">&#8220;Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won&#8217;t Tell You About Blogging&#8221;</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaworkshop.com/2008/09/14/social-media-club-workshop-hawaii-october-23-2008/" title="Social Media Club Workshop"><strong>Social Media Club Workshop - Thursday, October 23, 2008:</strong></a> is a one day workshop featuring Social Media Experts <a href="http://www.socialmediaclub.org/" title="Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells">Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells</a> from San Francisco, <a href="http://beth.typepad.com/" title="Beth Kanter">Beth Kanter</a> from Boston, and <a href="http://www.barefeetstudios.com/" title="Roxanne Darling">Roxanne Darling</a> from Honolulu.</p>
<p><a href="http://ocet.wcc.hawaii.edu/techtalk/" title="Windward Community Tech Fair"><strong>Windward Community Tech Fair Workshops and Exhibits - October 24, 2008:</strong></a> Windward Community College presents a free day long Tech Fair covering a wide variety of web and tech topics such as Google Docs, Digital Workflow for Educators, blogging, social media, and iChat Video Conferencing. Lorelle will be speaking about blogging as a career and business strategy.</p>
<p><a href="http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/" title="Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawaii at Hawaii Convention Center"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/podcamp-hi-speak-160.png?w=160&#038;h=160" alt="" title="Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii" width="160" height="160" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3022" /></a><a href="http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/" title="Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawaii at Hawaii Convention Center"><strong>Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - October 24, 2008:</strong></a> features top podcasters, WordPress experts, social media experts, video bloggers, business blogging, and everything you need to know about today&#8217;s social media. <a>Matt Mullenweg</a> will be speaking on <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress 2.7</a> and <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle VanFossen</a> will be speaking about <a href="http://www.woopra.com/" title="Woopra - blog statistics package" rel="tag">Woopra</a>, the new web analytics program, <a href="http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/2008/10/10/wordcamp-speaker-shane-robinson/" title="Shane Robinson">Shane Robinson</a> covering <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/" title="WordPressMU" rel="tag">WordPressMU</a>, and more.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m excited about this packed week in Hawaii and I&#8217;m there to learn as much as to share with others. Hawaii is a hot bed of diversity issues and cultural clashes, and no where to escape from them. They have had to learn to live together as the cultures crossed borders and combined. </p>
<p>With the world crossing borders every day on the web, we have a lot to learn from the lessons of social interaction and conflict management that Hawaii lives every day as proof of the possible. Expect a lot of lessons on what I learned coming to you over the next few months from my Hawaiian social experiences.</p>
<h4>Lorelle&#8217;s Upcoming Events</h4>
<p>There are a lot of workshops and keynotes in the works, but the ones set right now are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1168203/" title="The semi-un-not-so-official WordPress Upgrade Party at CubeSpace">The semi-un-not-so-official WordPress Upgrade Party at CubeSpace - Portland, Oregon - November 10, 2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/" title="WordCamp Las Vegas 2009">WordCamp Las Vegas 2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada - January 10-11, 2009</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Hope to see you there and anywhere I go. Want to bring me to an event near you? <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/category/wordpress-news/feed/&#108;&#111;&#114;&#101;&#108;&#108;&#101;&#111;&#110;&#119;&#111;&#114;&#100;&#112;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#115;&#64;&#103;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;" title="Email Lorelle">Let&#8217;s talk</a>. </p>
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Posted in WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3094&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:55:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:17:"Lorelle VanFossen";}s:7:"summary";s:10807:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>October 18-25 has been declared <a href="http://www.hmaus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/proclamation2008mrf032008.pdf" title="October 18 to 25, 2008 as Hawaii Geek Week">Hawaii Geek Week</a> in honor of a packed week of technology conferences, and I&#8217;m going to be at most of them!</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.hmaus.com/index.php/open-forum/dear-governor-lingle/" title="special proclamation">special proclamation</a> <a href="http://www.hmaus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/proclamation2008mrf032008.pdf" title="October 18 to 25, 2008 as Hawaii Geek Week">(pdf copy)</a> honoring Hawaii&#8217;s contributions to technology was facilitated by <a href="http://www.hmaus.com" title="Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users Society">Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users Society (HMAUS)</a> and their Secretary and Ambassador Eugene Villaluz.</p>
<p>There are a ton of mostly free events, workshops, conferences, and meetings, during Hawaii Geek Week. They include:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hmaus.com/index.php/meetings-workshops/mactoberfest/" title="www.hmaus.com"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/macoctoberfest2008.png?w=200&#038;h=100" alt="" title="macoctoberfest2008 in hawaii" width="200" height="100" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3036" /></a><a href="http://www.hmaus.com/index.php/meetings-workshops/mactoberfest/" title="www.hmaus.com"><strong>Mactoberfest - Saturday, October 18, 2008:</strong></a> A free annual event by <a href="http://www.hmaus.com" title="Hawaii Macintosh and Apple Users Society">HMAUS</a> with guest speakers covering computer technology, blogging, WordPress, and photography, and features keynote by <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a> on how WordPress changes lives, and a panel discussion on the past, present, and future of technology, as this is event is part of the 30th anniversary of the organization.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.hmaus.com/index.php/meetings-workshops/web-weavers-workshop/" title="Web Weavers Workshop"><strong>Web Weavers Workshop - Wednesday, October 22, 2008:</strong></a> A day long workshop on blogging, social media, and WordPress with <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle VanFossen">Lorelle VanFossen</a>, author of <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/books/blogging-tips/" title="Blogging Tips Book By Lorelle VanFossen">&#8220;Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won&#8217;t Tell You About Blogging&#8221;</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.socialmediaworkshop.com/2008/09/14/social-media-club-workshop-hawaii-october-23-2008/" title="Social Media Club Workshop"><strong>Social Media Club Workshop - Thursday, October 23, 2008:</strong></a> is a one day workshop featuring Social Media Experts <a href="http://www.socialmediaclub.org/" title="Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells">Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells</a> from San Francisco, <a href="http://beth.typepad.com/" title="Beth Kanter">Beth Kanter</a> from Boston, and <a href="http://www.barefeetstudios.com/" title="Roxanne Darling">Roxanne Darling</a> from Honolulu.</p>
<p><a href="http://ocet.wcc.hawaii.edu/techtalk/" title="Windward Community Tech Fair"><strong>Windward Community Tech Fair Workshops and Exhibits - October 24, 2008:</strong></a> Windward Community College presents a free day long Tech Fair covering a wide variety of web and tech topics such as Google Docs, Digital Workflow for Educators, blogging, social media, and iChat Video Conferencing. Lorelle will be speaking about blogging as a career and business strategy.</p>
<p><a href="http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/" title="Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawaii at Hawaii Convention Center"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/podcamp-hi-speak-160.png?w=160&#038;h=160" alt="" title="Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii" width="160" height="160" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3022" /></a><a href="http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/" title="Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawaii at Hawaii Convention Center"><strong>Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - October 24, 2008:</strong></a> features top podcasters, WordPress experts, social media experts, video bloggers, business blogging, and everything you need to know about today&#8217;s social media. <a>Matt Mullenweg</a> will be speaking on <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" title="WordPress" rel="tag">WordPress 2.7</a> and <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/" title="Lorelle on WordPress" rel="tag">Lorelle VanFossen</a> will be speaking about <a href="http://www.woopra.com/" title="Woopra - blog statistics package" rel="tag">Woopra</a>, the new web analytics program, <a href="http://2008.podcamphawaii.com/2008/10/10/wordcamp-speaker-shane-robinson/" title="Shane Robinson">Shane Robinson</a> covering <a href="http://mu.wordpress.org/" title="WordPressMU" rel="tag">WordPressMU</a>, and more.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m excited about this packed week in Hawaii and I&#8217;m there to learn as much as to share with others. Hawaii is a hot bed of diversity issues and cultural clashes, and no where to escape from them. They have had to learn to live together as the cultures crossed borders and combined. </p>
<p>With the world crossing borders every day on the web, we have a lot to learn from the lessons of social interaction and conflict management that Hawaii lives every day as proof of the possible. Expect a lot of lessons on what I learned coming to you over the next few months from my Hawaiian social experiences.</p>
<h4>Lorelle&#8217;s Upcoming Events</h4>
<p>There are a lot of workshops and keynotes in the works, but the ones set right now are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1168203/" title="The semi-un-not-so-official WordPress Upgrade Party at CubeSpace">The semi-un-not-so-official WordPress Upgrade Party at CubeSpace - Portland, Oregon - November 10, 2008</a></li>
<li><a href="http://lasvegaswordcamp.com/" title="WordCamp Las Vegas 2009">WordCamp Las Vegas 2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada - January 10-11, 2009</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Hope to see you there and anywhere I go. Want to bring me to an event near you? <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/category/wordpress-news/feed/&#108;&#111;&#114;&#101;&#108;&#108;&#101;&#111;&#110;&#119;&#111;&#114;&#100;&#112;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#115;&#64;&#103;&#109;&#97;&#105;&#108;&#46;&#99;&#111;&#109;" title="Email Lorelle">Let&#8217;s talk</a>. </p>
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Posted in WordPress News&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/lorelle.wordpress.com/3094/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lorelle.wordpress.com&blog=72&post=3094&subd=lorelle&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:25;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/11";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4341";s:4:"link";s:89:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/11/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1011-2/";s:11:"description";s:1585:"<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/09/orange-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Orange</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Orange"><img title="orangepq1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/orangepq1.png" border="0" alt="orangepq1" width="163" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Orange consists of a fluid three column outfit, with widgetized sidebars and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://jasonetics.com/emphasis-a-simple-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Emphasis</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jasonetics.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Emphasis%20(white)"><img title="emphasis" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/emphasis.png" border="0" alt="emphasis" width="175" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Emphasis is the newest WordPress theme release from Jasonetics. It is a very simple theme, with subtle colors. The posts are bordered with a very light grey, and the links are green and hover orange. This theme is called emphasis because almost all of the focus is on the content and posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.junglejar.com/templatejar/helium/"><strong>Helium</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.junglejar.com/templates/demos/helium/"><img title="helium" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/helium.png" border="0" alt="helium" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with ability to post images to index page automatically</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:17:03 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1585:"<p><a href="http://3oneseven.com/09/orange-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Orange</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://wp.3oneseven.com/index.php?wptheme=Orange"><img title="orangepq1" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/orangepq1.png" border="0" alt="orangepq1" width="163" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Orange consists of a fluid three column outfit, with widgetized sidebars and footer columns, built in are recent comments with gravatars, related posts, social bookmarking enabled and Flickr is enabled in the themes options panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://jasonetics.com/emphasis-a-simple-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Emphasis</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jasonetics.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Emphasis%20(white)"><img title="emphasis" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/emphasis.png" border="0" alt="emphasis" width="175" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Emphasis is the newest WordPress theme release from Jasonetics. It is a very simple theme, with subtle colors. The posts are bordered with a very light grey, and the links are green and hover orange. This theme is called emphasis because almost all of the focus is on the content and posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.junglejar.com/templatejar/helium/"><strong>Helium</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.junglejar.com/templates/demos/helium/"><img title="helium" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/helium.png" border="0" alt="helium" width="152" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready, gravatar ready theme with ability to post images to index page automatically</p>";}i:26;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Weblog Tools Collection: All In One SEO To Go";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4331";s:4:"link";s:74:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/11/all-in-one-seo-to-go/";s:11:"description";s:5281:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" /> In this highly optimized episode of WordPress Weekly, I interviewed Michael Torbert who is more commonly known as hallsofmontezuma throughout the WordPress community. He is now the developer of the most popular plugin in the plugin repository, the<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" target="_blank">All In One SEO pack</a>. We discuss what it&#8217;s like to maintain an insanely popular plugin, how difficult it has been to work with the WordPress code, thoughts on SEO in general, and the question of the night went to <a href="http://www.brandingdavid.com" target="_blank">David Peralty</a> for asking if SEO could be damaged by mis configuring the plugin. You&#8217;ll have to listen to the show to get the answer. On top of that, I give my plugin pick of the week, the WordPress job of the week and much more on episode 24 of WordPress weekly.</p>
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<p> WordPress 2.7 is nearing feature freeze. Once that happens, we should start to see announcements in the dashboard regarding beta releases. Based on everything I have read, 2.7 is on schedule to be released on November 10th. If something major is discovered during the beta trials, the date of release will obviously be changed.</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t get the chance to mention this on the show but I wanted to pass along a happy birthday to <a href="http://www.hackwordpress.com" target="_blank">HackWordPress.com</a> as they have turned 1 year old.</p>
<h2>Feedback:</h2>
<p> I cover feedback related to last weeks episode. We encourage any feedback you may have with regards to the show. You can either email me via jeffro at jeffro2pt0.com or you can simply leave us a comment on the blog. </p>
<h2>Plugin Of The Week:</h2>
<p><strong>Jeff -</strong> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/" target="_blank">Exclude Pages</a> – This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus). Pages which are children of excluded pages also do not show up in menu listings. (An alert in the editing screen, underneath the &#8220;include&#8221; checkbox allows you to track down which ancestor page is affecting child pages in this way.) You could do this just as easily by adding exclusion arguments to the WP_LIST_PAGES function but this plugin takes those steps out of the process.</p>
<h2>WordPress Job Of The Week:</h2>
<p> This job was published on <a href="http://jobs.wordpress.net/2008/10/10/upgrade-from-21-to-current-wp-version-plugins/">October 10th on the WeblogToolsCollection.com Job board</a>. Sure Foods Living is looking for someone who can upgrade WordPress 2.1 to the current version. The individual at one point had someone to help them customize their site but that person is no longer available. Also, because of the upgrade, this person needs to change templates since the current one is not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. The potential client is asking for people who are qualified and for quotes on how much this project would cost. If you are interested in this job, please contact alison at surefoodsliving.com</p>
<h2>Announcements:</h2>
<p> <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jane Wells</a> who works for Automattic in the user experience/usability department will be our special one hour guest on Halloween night. That is <strong>Friday, October 31st</strong>, 2008. So if you&#8217;re interested in talking usability in WordPress, definitely mark this date on your calendar. </p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday October 17th, 2008 8P.M. EST</p>
<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: </strong><a href="itpc://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss34224.xml" target="_blank">Click here to subscribe</a></p>
<p><strong>Length Of Episode:</strong> 58 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-152923.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode24.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #24:</strong><br />
</p>
<p>While not broadly advertised, I happened to catch <a href="http://www.briangardner.com/" target="_blank">Brian Gardner</a> for about an hour to discuss his announcement regarding going open source. During the interview, we discuss topics such as the grey area of the GPL, his new business model, his new approach to themes, how similar his business model is to the WordPress.com model, the state of themes in WordPress and much more.</p>
<p><strong>Listen To The Brian Gardner Interview:</strong><br />
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:36:10 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:5281:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" /> In this highly optimized episode of WordPress Weekly, I interviewed Michael Torbert who is more commonly known as hallsofmontezuma throughout the WordPress community. He is now the developer of the most popular plugin in the plugin repository, the<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" target="_blank">All In One SEO pack</a>. We discuss what it&#8217;s like to maintain an insanely popular plugin, how difficult it has been to work with the WordPress code, thoughts on SEO in general, and the question of the night went to <a href="http://www.brandingdavid.com" target="_blank">David Peralty</a> for asking if SEO could be damaged by mis configuring the plugin. You&#8217;ll have to listen to the show to get the answer. On top of that, I give my plugin pick of the week, the WordPress job of the week and much more on episode 24 of WordPress weekly.</p>
<h2>Ad Copy:</h2>
<p> WordPress Weekly is brought to you by the fine advertisers on WeblogToolsCollection.com. Without their continued support, this show would not be possible. I would also like to personally thank each and every one of you who download and listen to this show. Your continued support is greatly appreciated. If you are interested in advertising on WordPress Weekly, please contact Mark Ghosh via <a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/contact-me/" target="_blank">this contact form</a>.</p>
<h2>News:</h2>
<p> WordPress 2.7 is nearing feature freeze. Once that happens, we should start to see announcements in the dashboard regarding beta releases. Based on everything I have read, 2.7 is on schedule to be released on November 10th. If something major is discovered during the beta trials, the date of release will obviously be changed.</p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t get the chance to mention this on the show but I wanted to pass along a happy birthday to <a href="http://www.hackwordpress.com" target="_blank">HackWordPress.com</a> as they have turned 1 year old.</p>
<h2>Feedback:</h2>
<p> I cover feedback related to last weeks episode. We encourage any feedback you may have with regards to the show. You can either email me via jeffro at jeffro2pt0.com or you can simply leave us a comment on the blog. </p>
<h2>Plugin Of The Week:</h2>
<p><strong>Jeff -</strong> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/" target="_blank">Exclude Pages</a> – This plugin adds a checkbox, “include this page in menus”, which is checked by default. If you uncheck it, the page will not appear in any listings of pages (which includes, and is usually limited to, your page navigation menus). Pages which are children of excluded pages also do not show up in menu listings. (An alert in the editing screen, underneath the &#8220;include&#8221; checkbox allows you to track down which ancestor page is affecting child pages in this way.) You could do this just as easily by adding exclusion arguments to the WP_LIST_PAGES function but this plugin takes those steps out of the process.</p>
<h2>WordPress Job Of The Week:</h2>
<p> This job was published on <a href="http://jobs.wordpress.net/2008/10/10/upgrade-from-21-to-current-wp-version-plugins/">October 10th on the WeblogToolsCollection.com Job board</a>. Sure Foods Living is looking for someone who can upgrade WordPress 2.1 to the current version. The individual at one point had someone to help them customize their site but that person is no longer available. Also, because of the upgrade, this person needs to change templates since the current one is not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. The potential client is asking for people who are qualified and for quotes on how much this project would cost. If you are interested in this job, please contact alison at surefoodsliving.com</p>
<h2>Announcements:</h2>
<p> <a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jane Wells</a> who works for Automattic in the user experience/usability department will be our special one hour guest on Halloween night. That is <strong>Friday, October 31st</strong>, 2008. So if you&#8217;re interested in talking usability in WordPress, definitely mark this date on your calendar. </p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday October 17th, 2008 8P.M. EST</p>
<p><strong>Subscribe To WPWeekly Via Itunes: </strong><a href="itpc://recordings.talkshoe.com/rss34224.xml" target="_blank">Click here to subscribe</a></p>
<p><strong>Length Of Episode:</strong> 58 Minutes</p>
<p><strong>Download The Show:</strong> <a href="http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-34224/TS-152923.mp3" target="_blank">WordPressWeeklyEpisode24.mp3</a></p>
<p><strong>Listen To Episode #24:</strong><br />
</p>
<p>While not broadly advertised, I happened to catch <a href="http://www.briangardner.com/" target="_blank">Brian Gardner</a> for about an hour to discuss his announcement regarding going open source. During the interview, we discuss topics such as the grey area of the GPL, his new business model, his new approach to themes, how similar his business model is to the WordPress.com model, the state of themes in WordPress and much more.</p>
<p><strong>Listen To The Brian Gardner Interview:</strong><br />
</p>";}i:27;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:27:"Matt: Gravatar Anniversary.";s:4:"guid";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/gravatar-anniversary/";s:4:"link";s:42:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/gravatar-anniversary/";s:11:"description";s:485:"<p><a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/10/11/gravatar-one-year-later/">It&#8217;s now been one year since Automattic acquired Gravatar</a>. &#8220;Gravatar now lives on about 20 servers. 2 Database servers, 1 File server, 2 Load balancers, 5 Caching servers, 9 Web servers, and 1 Development server.  That combination of servers is handling an average of 7,214 of your requests every second of every day.  That’s a whopping 623,293,056 requests daily!&#8221; <em>Wowza!</em></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 11 Oct 2008 03:03:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:485:"<p><a href="http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/10/11/gravatar-one-year-later/">It&#8217;s now been one year since Automattic acquired Gravatar</a>. &#8220;Gravatar now lives on about 20 servers. 2 Database servers, 1 File server, 2 Load balancers, 5 Caching servers, 9 Web servers, and 1 Development server.  That combination of servers is handling an average of 7,214 of your requests every second of every day.  That’s a whopping 623,293,056 requests daily!&#8221; <em>Wowza!</em></p>";}i:28;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:34:"Gravatar: Gravatar, one year later";s:4:"guid";s:35:"http://gravatar.wordpress.com/?p=66";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/10/11/gravatar-one-year-later/";s:11:"description";s:9523:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Wow it&#8217;s really been 1 year since Gravatar joined the Automattic family.  Time sure flies when you&#8217;re having fun!</p>
<p>Gravatar has come a long way from the service that it was back in October 2007.  My wife likes to laugh at me because I&#8217;ll pick something up in one room, like a remote control, and move around the house fidgeting with it.  Then I&#8217;ll absentmindedly leave it in some random place like the bathroom, or the freezer.  One year ago we picked up a small avatar service with a great name and an awesome fan base.  Now, in an attempt not to leave it in a random location, we&#8217;re looking back on the last year (and letting you look with us.)</p>
<p>The service was running version 2.0, and set up on two rented (or collocated, I don&#8217;t honestly know) servers.  The servers were running at loads of around 20, and could spike to well over 100 (that&#8217;s a lot.)  It was obvious that we needed both some stop-gap fixes and a plan. The first thing we did was throw some caching servers in front of the service &#8212; a couple of varnish servers as I recall.  This dropped the workload of the two boxes considerably, and allowed us to look at Gravatar without bringing the service down.  Next we replicated the setup 1 for 1 to two of our own (more powerful) servers.  This gave us a bit more breathing room.  And we began to plan.</p>
<p>It was obvious, from the very beginning that the service was going to have to handle a constant torrent of requests from the internet.  Most of those requests would be for email addresses with no Gravatar and come from URLs that could be crafted in an unlimited number of ways.  On top of that we knew that we wanted to make all the paid features free, and expand the size a Gravatar could be from 80 pixels to 512 pixels.  So basically instead of our goals being to make the undertaking less daunting we we&#8217;re actively making it a more intense challenge than it could have been.  But that was OK with us, because our goals for Gravatar weren&#8217;t to make it easier but to make it better.  We wanted to make Gravatar the kind of free service that we could use, would want to use, and would be proud to share with the world.  I know that last bit sounds like marketing crap, but that&#8217;s really what we wanted to do and is really how we look at Gravatar.</p>
<p>Pretty much the next thing we did was port Gravatars code from RoR (Ruby on Rails) to PHP.  As I mentioned when we announced this change the reason for this wasn&#8217;t about Ruby or Rails.  Simply put we&#8217;re a PHP shop, and once rewritten in PHP we have many more great minds that we can easily throw at it than if it were still in RoR. Since we ported it *pretty much* directly from rails there are some left-over rails-isms in Gravatars code that you wont find in, say, WordPress. Shh&#8230;. Don&#8217;t tell Matt <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>In the rewriting we tried to tackle the largest scalability problems with the design of the service.  You can imagine that for an avatar serving service&#8230; storing, searching, and serving avatars is paramount.  Gravatar 2.0 (pre PHP) suffered from some pretty significant inefficiencies in this regard, and I think that a big part of that was limited resources (time and servers.)  Luckily we we&#8217;re now not significantly limited by either of those things.</p>
<p>&#8211; warning beginning technical details which may be safely skipped over if you don&#8217;t care &#8211;</p>
<p>The way that images were stored originally was: a complete image was made for all sizes between 1&#215;1 and 80&#215;80 pixels, a directory made for each rating, and a symlink placed from the rating to the appropriate image (either the users image or the default image in case the rating was too high.)  So that&#8217;s 80 images, 5 directories, and 240 symbolic links.  The reason for this, I believe, was to attempt to serve the avatar content without any database interaction whatever.  The files were then archived, uploaded to Amazon S3, and an entry added to Amazon SQS.  Finally the SQS entry was retrieved by the serving server, the file downloaded, extracted, and placed on the filesystem.  So this is why it took several minutes once you uploaded and cropped your image for you to be able to browse the rest of the site again.  You can imagine how many files Gravatar was comprised of by the time we got a hold of it!  We knew that this would simply NOT work for our new 512&#215;512px avatar sizes.  Lastly there were a couple of directories which had several hundred thousand entries (either files or other directories) which were nearly impossible to even get a listing inside of.  So we had a list of things NOT to do.  We just needed to figure out what TO do <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>So we decided that we would render all our avatars dynamically from the highest quality copy of the image we can manage&#8230; down.  We would only store one version of the image, though we would store it in multiple places (a local file server for speed, and S3 for redundancy.)  We would still rely heavily on caching.  And we would asynchronize as much of the workload as was possible, so that you don&#8217;t have to wait for things to happen after you finish cropping (to do this we employed various techniques and hacks best left for another day and another story.)</p>
<p>&#8211; ok this batch of details has been concluded &#8211;</p>
<p>So the problems were many, one year ago, and the challenges were fascinating.  I recall being overwhelmed by support requests for quite some time.  I would get 40 emails on a good day, more on a bad.  And believe it or not your emails very much shaped the future of Gravatar.  I would group them into specific problems, and always fix at least the largest problem (volume wise) each week.  Over time the service has grown quite stable, support requests have gone down to just a handful every day, and things are generally peppier than ever.</p>
<p>We had some some bumps tuning our caches&#8230; for a while there we accidentally told your web browsers never EVER to re-validate an image. But we got that handled in short order&#8230; and things are zipping along quite nicely.</p>
<p>Gravatar now lives on about 20 servers: 2 Database servers, 1 File server, 2 Load balancers, 5 Caching servers, 9 Web servers, and 1 Development server.  That combination of servers is handling an average of 7,214 of your requests every second of every day.  That&#8217;s a whopping 623,293,056 requests daily! 96% of all of those requests are served directly from cache.  These days we get around 5,000 uploaded images every day.  Even with this staggering increase in the number of requests we&#8217;ve been able to make Gravatar faster, and more reliable than it&#8217;s ever been.</p>
<p>So here we are, one year later, looking out over the vast frontier of the internet and contemplating the future of Gravatar.  There are a great many things that it could become.  We know that we don&#8217;t want to loose focus on the core of the project: Serving your avatars (that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about!)</p>
<p>We know that an avatar is &#8220;a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet,&#8221;  But it&#8217;s also &#8220;an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life.&#8221;  And that is exactly where we are headed:  Making Gravatar a place where you can do more than just store an image, making it a place that can be your presence online.  So we&#8217;ll be rolling out more features in the near future to allow you to store more data inside Gravatar &#8212; and more importantly to allow you to use that information in other places on the internet through open standards.</p>
<p>We hope that you&#8217;ve had as awesome a time using your Gravatars as we&#8217;ve had making it all work.  And we look forward to the future &#8212; to when your identity doesn&#8217;t have to be cemented to a specific site, but is fluid and flexible, and persistent.  We hope to see you there!</p>
<p>Cheers!<br />
Demitrious Kelly</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=66&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:20:04 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:11:"apokalyptik";}s:7:"summary";s:9523:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Wow it&#8217;s really been 1 year since Gravatar joined the Automattic family.  Time sure flies when you&#8217;re having fun!</p>
<p>Gravatar has come a long way from the service that it was back in October 2007.  My wife likes to laugh at me because I&#8217;ll pick something up in one room, like a remote control, and move around the house fidgeting with it.  Then I&#8217;ll absentmindedly leave it in some random place like the bathroom, or the freezer.  One year ago we picked up a small avatar service with a great name and an awesome fan base.  Now, in an attempt not to leave it in a random location, we&#8217;re looking back on the last year (and letting you look with us.)</p>
<p>The service was running version 2.0, and set up on two rented (or collocated, I don&#8217;t honestly know) servers.  The servers were running at loads of around 20, and could spike to well over 100 (that&#8217;s a lot.)  It was obvious that we needed both some stop-gap fixes and a plan. The first thing we did was throw some caching servers in front of the service &#8212; a couple of varnish servers as I recall.  This dropped the workload of the two boxes considerably, and allowed us to look at Gravatar without bringing the service down.  Next we replicated the setup 1 for 1 to two of our own (more powerful) servers.  This gave us a bit more breathing room.  And we began to plan.</p>
<p>It was obvious, from the very beginning that the service was going to have to handle a constant torrent of requests from the internet.  Most of those requests would be for email addresses with no Gravatar and come from URLs that could be crafted in an unlimited number of ways.  On top of that we knew that we wanted to make all the paid features free, and expand the size a Gravatar could be from 80 pixels to 512 pixels.  So basically instead of our goals being to make the undertaking less daunting we we&#8217;re actively making it a more intense challenge than it could have been.  But that was OK with us, because our goals for Gravatar weren&#8217;t to make it easier but to make it better.  We wanted to make Gravatar the kind of free service that we could use, would want to use, and would be proud to share with the world.  I know that last bit sounds like marketing crap, but that&#8217;s really what we wanted to do and is really how we look at Gravatar.</p>
<p>Pretty much the next thing we did was port Gravatars code from RoR (Ruby on Rails) to PHP.  As I mentioned when we announced this change the reason for this wasn&#8217;t about Ruby or Rails.  Simply put we&#8217;re a PHP shop, and once rewritten in PHP we have many more great minds that we can easily throw at it than if it were still in RoR. Since we ported it *pretty much* directly from rails there are some left-over rails-isms in Gravatars code that you wont find in, say, WordPress. Shh&#8230;. Don&#8217;t tell Matt <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>In the rewriting we tried to tackle the largest scalability problems with the design of the service.  You can imagine that for an avatar serving service&#8230; storing, searching, and serving avatars is paramount.  Gravatar 2.0 (pre PHP) suffered from some pretty significant inefficiencies in this regard, and I think that a big part of that was limited resources (time and servers.)  Luckily we we&#8217;re now not significantly limited by either of those things.</p>
<p>&#8211; warning beginning technical details which may be safely skipped over if you don&#8217;t care &#8211;</p>
<p>The way that images were stored originally was: a complete image was made for all sizes between 1&#215;1 and 80&#215;80 pixels, a directory made for each rating, and a symlink placed from the rating to the appropriate image (either the users image or the default image in case the rating was too high.)  So that&#8217;s 80 images, 5 directories, and 240 symbolic links.  The reason for this, I believe, was to attempt to serve the avatar content without any database interaction whatever.  The files were then archived, uploaded to Amazon S3, and an entry added to Amazon SQS.  Finally the SQS entry was retrieved by the serving server, the file downloaded, extracted, and placed on the filesystem.  So this is why it took several minutes once you uploaded and cropped your image for you to be able to browse the rest of the site again.  You can imagine how many files Gravatar was comprised of by the time we got a hold of it!  We knew that this would simply NOT work for our new 512&#215;512px avatar sizes.  Lastly there were a couple of directories which had several hundred thousand entries (either files or other directories) which were nearly impossible to even get a listing inside of.  So we had a list of things NOT to do.  We just needed to figure out what TO do <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>So we decided that we would render all our avatars dynamically from the highest quality copy of the image we can manage&#8230; down.  We would only store one version of the image, though we would store it in multiple places (a local file server for speed, and S3 for redundancy.)  We would still rely heavily on caching.  And we would asynchronize as much of the workload as was possible, so that you don&#8217;t have to wait for things to happen after you finish cropping (to do this we employed various techniques and hacks best left for another day and another story.)</p>
<p>&#8211; ok this batch of details has been concluded &#8211;</p>
<p>So the problems were many, one year ago, and the challenges were fascinating.  I recall being overwhelmed by support requests for quite some time.  I would get 40 emails on a good day, more on a bad.  And believe it or not your emails very much shaped the future of Gravatar.  I would group them into specific problems, and always fix at least the largest problem (volume wise) each week.  Over time the service has grown quite stable, support requests have gone down to just a handful every day, and things are generally peppier than ever.</p>
<p>We had some some bumps tuning our caches&#8230; for a while there we accidentally told your web browsers never EVER to re-validate an image. But we got that handled in short order&#8230; and things are zipping along quite nicely.</p>
<p>Gravatar now lives on about 20 servers: 2 Database servers, 1 File server, 2 Load balancers, 5 Caching servers, 9 Web servers, and 1 Development server.  That combination of servers is handling an average of 7,214 of your requests every second of every day.  That&#8217;s a whopping 623,293,056 requests daily! 96% of all of those requests are served directly from cache.  These days we get around 5,000 uploaded images every day.  Even with this staggering increase in the number of requests we&#8217;ve been able to make Gravatar faster, and more reliable than it&#8217;s ever been.</p>
<p>So here we are, one year later, looking out over the vast frontier of the internet and contemplating the future of Gravatar.  There are a great many things that it could become.  We know that we don&#8217;t want to loose focus on the core of the project: Serving your avatars (that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about!)</p>
<p>We know that an avatar is &#8220;a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet,&#8221;  But it&#8217;s also &#8220;an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life.&#8221;  And that is exactly where we are headed:  Making Gravatar a place where you can do more than just store an image, making it a place that can be your presence online.  So we&#8217;ll be rolling out more features in the near future to allow you to store more data inside Gravatar &#8212; and more importantly to allow you to use that information in other places on the internet through open standards.</p>
<p>We hope that you&#8217;ve had as awesome a time using your Gravatars as we&#8217;ve had making it all work.  And we look forward to the future &#8212; to when your identity doesn&#8217;t have to be cemented to a specific site, but is fluid and flexible, and persistent.  We hope to see you there!</p>
<p>Cheers!<br />
Demitrious Kelly</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/digg/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/reddit/gravatar.wordpress.com/66/" /></a> <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.gravatar.com&blog=1886259&post=66&subd=gravatar&ref=&feed=1" /></div>";}i:29;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/10";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4329";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/10/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1010/";s:11:"description";s:2749:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flocktogether.org.uk/blog/2008/10/09/libdig-wordpress-plug-in/"><strong>LibDig</strong></a></p>
<p>Adds a Lib Dig box to WordPress posts and pages</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mattvarone.com/2008/10/scrnshots-plugin-for-wordpress/"><strong>scrnshotsRSS</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin for WordPress allows you to show Scrnshots.com captures on your sites</p>
<p><a href="http://quirm.net/2008/10/08/efiles-backup/"><strong>eFiles Backup</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin for Wordpress allows you to download backups of your Uploads, Themes and Plugin directories. It also allows you to download the entire wp-content directory. Not suitable for WPMU without alteration, or for large sites.</p>
<p><a href="https://wiki.geekyhabitat.com/tiki-index.php?page=WP-UDIF-Entrecard"><strong>WP-UDIF-Entrecard</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin enables a simple method of displaying an Entrecard Widget on your Blog and will also display a &#8220;U Drop I follow&#8221; Image below it for members of the <a href="http://leedoyle.com/u-drop-i-follow">U Drop I Follow Moment</a></p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-amazon/"><strong>AVH Amazon</strong></a></p>
<p>The avh-amazon WordPress plugin gives you the ability to add a widget which will display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry.</p>
<p><a href="http://playground.ebiene.de/356/related-posts-by-category-wp-plugin-fur-verwandte-beitrage-einer-kategorie/"><strong>Related Posts by Category</strong></a></p>
<p>Display related posts based on their category. (Page in German)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dashboardzone.com/monitor-your-blog-goals-with-wordpress-plugin"><strong>DasboardZone</strong></a></p>
<p>Displays statistics about your posts and post frequency on the WordPress Dashboard</p>
<p><a href="http://wpcal.firetree.net/"><strong>Event Calendar 3</strong></a></p>
<p>Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technokinetics.com/plugins/alt-link-text/"><strong>Alt Link Text</strong></a></p>
<p>Alt Link Text adds &#8220;Alternative Link Text&#8221; and &#8220;Alternative Title Attribute&#8221; fields to the Write Page and Manage Page screens.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp-pods.googlecode.com/"><strong>Pods</strong></a></p>
<p>Pods is a Wordpress plugin that adds CMS abilities to blog posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/drain-hole/"><strong>Drain Hole</strong></a></p>
<p>Drain Hole is a centralized download manager with full monitoring, statistics, versioning, SVN support, and proper SEO download URLs</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:14:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2749:"<h3>New Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.flocktogether.org.uk/blog/2008/10/09/libdig-wordpress-plug-in/"><strong>LibDig</strong></a></p>
<p>Adds a Lib Dig box to WordPress posts and pages</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mattvarone.com/2008/10/scrnshots-plugin-for-wordpress/"><strong>scrnshotsRSS</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin for WordPress allows you to show Scrnshots.com captures on your sites</p>
<p><a href="http://quirm.net/2008/10/08/efiles-backup/"><strong>eFiles Backup</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin for Wordpress allows you to download backups of your Uploads, Themes and Plugin directories. It also allows you to download the entire wp-content directory. Not suitable for WPMU without alteration, or for large sites.</p>
<p><a href="https://wiki.geekyhabitat.com/tiki-index.php?page=WP-UDIF-Entrecard"><strong>WP-UDIF-Entrecard</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin enables a simple method of displaying an Entrecard Widget on your Blog and will also display a &#8220;U Drop I follow&#8221; Image below it for members of the <a href="http://leedoyle.com/u-drop-i-follow">U Drop I Follow Moment</a></p>
<h3>Updated Plugins</h3>
<p><a href="http://blog.avirtualhome.com/wordpress-plugins/avh-amazon/"><strong>AVH Amazon</strong></a></p>
<p>The avh-amazon WordPress plugin gives you the ability to add a widget which will display a random item from your Amazon wish list, baby registry and/or wedding registry.</p>
<p><a href="http://playground.ebiene.de/356/related-posts-by-category-wp-plugin-fur-verwandte-beitrage-einer-kategorie/"><strong>Related Posts by Category</strong></a></p>
<p>Display related posts based on their category. (Page in German)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dashboardzone.com/monitor-your-blog-goals-with-wordpress-plugin"><strong>DasboardZone</strong></a></p>
<p>Displays statistics about your posts and post frequency on the WordPress Dashboard</p>
<p><a href="http://wpcal.firetree.net/"><strong>Event Calendar 3</strong></a></p>
<p>Manage future events as an online calendar. Display upcoming events in a dynamic calendar, on a listings page, or as a list in the sidebar.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.technokinetics.com/plugins/alt-link-text/"><strong>Alt Link Text</strong></a></p>
<p>Alt Link Text adds &#8220;Alternative Link Text&#8221; and &#8220;Alternative Title Attribute&#8221; fields to the Write Page and Manage Page screens.</p>
<p><a href="http://wp-pods.googlecode.com/"><strong>Pods</strong></a></p>
<p>Pods is a Wordpress plugin that adds CMS abilities to blog posts.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/drain-hole/"><strong>Drain Hole</strong></a></p>
<p>Drain Hole is a centralized download manager with full monitoring, statistics, versioning, SVN support, and proper SEO download URLs</p>";}i:30;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/09";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4327";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/09/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1009/";s:11:"description";s:2368:"<p><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/blue-grace-wordpress-theme-released"><strong>Blue Grace</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="bluegrace" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/bluegrace.png" border="0" alt="bluegrace" width="134" height="114" /></p>
<p>Blue Grace is a simple three column WordPress theme with a rotating header image</p>
<p><a href="http://www.azmoney.co.uk/wordpress-themes/fancy"><strong>Fancy</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="fancy" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/fancy.png" border="0" alt="fancy" width="152" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column WordPress theme which really lets your blog stand out from the crowd. Make your blog unique by changing the main blog color (pink, yellow, green), background pattern (available over 20 background variations), banner etc through an options page. In addition you have the ability to choose the color of sidebar blocks (violet, yellow, green).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.acosmin.com/acosmin-v4-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Acosmin v4</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://acosminv4.acosmin.com/"><img title="acosminv4" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/acosminv4.jpg" border="0" alt="acosminv4" width="179" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, white and grey, gravatar theme with ad ready stops with psd files included</p>
<p><a href="http://jasonetics.com/hello-red-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Hello Red</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jasonetics.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Hello%20Red"><img title="hellored" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/hellored.png" border="0" alt="hellored" width="200" height="107" /></a></p>
<p>Hello Red is a 2 column red, white, and black, widget ready WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogbuildingu.com/retrospective"><strong>Retrospective</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.blogbuildingu.com/index.php?wptheme=Retrospective"><img title="retrospective-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/retrospectivescreenshot.jpg" border="0" alt="retrospective-screenshot" width="131" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready, fast loading, search engine optimized theme</p>
<p> </p>
<p>On the subject of themes, Matt has a tutorial <a href="http://sivel.net/2008/10/wp-27-comment-separation/">Separating Pings from Comments in WordPress 2.7</a>.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:19:37 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2368:"<p><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/blue-grace-wordpress-theme-released"><strong>Blue Grace</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="bluegrace" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/bluegrace.png" border="0" alt="bluegrace" width="134" height="114" /></p>
<p>Blue Grace is a simple three column WordPress theme with a rotating header image</p>
<p><a href="http://www.azmoney.co.uk/wordpress-themes/fancy"><strong>Fancy</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="fancy" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/fancy.png" border="0" alt="fancy" width="152" height="114" /></p>
<p>Two column WordPress theme which really lets your blog stand out from the crowd. Make your blog unique by changing the main blog color (pink, yellow, green), background pattern (available over 20 background variations), banner etc through an options page. In addition you have the ability to choose the color of sidebar blocks (violet, yellow, green).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.acosmin.com/acosmin-v4-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Acosmin v4</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://acosminv4.acosmin.com/"><img title="acosminv4" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/acosminv4.jpg" border="0" alt="acosminv4" width="179" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, white and grey, gravatar theme with ad ready stops with psd files included</p>
<p><a href="http://jasonetics.com/hello-red-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Hello Red</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://jasonetics.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Hello%20Red"><img title="hellored" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/hellored.png" border="0" alt="hellored" width="200" height="107" /></a></p>
<p>Hello Red is a 2 column red, white, and black, widget ready WordPress theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogbuildingu.com/retrospective"><strong>Retrospective</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.blogbuildingu.com/index.php?wptheme=Retrospective"><img title="retrospective-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/retrospectivescreenshot.jpg" border="0" alt="retrospective-screenshot" width="131" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Three column, widget ready, fast loading, search engine optimized theme</p>
<p> </p>
<p>On the subject of themes, Matt has a tutorial <a href="http://sivel.net/2008/10/wp-27-comment-separation/">Separating Pings from Comments in WordPress 2.7</a>.</p>";}i:31;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:37:"bbPress: bbPress 1.0-alpha-2 released";s:4:"guid";s:25:"http://bbpress.org/?p=103";s:4:"link";s:60:"http://bbpress.org/blog/2008/10/bbpress-10-alpha-2-released/";s:11:"description";s:1479:"<p>The next installation in the bbPress 1.0 alpha series has been released. bbPress 1.0 alpha 2 introduces new features and fixes most of the issues raised by testers from the previous release.</p>
<p>A lot of the features were covered in a <a href="http://bbpress.org/blog/2008/09/bbpress-10-alpha-series-update/">previous post</a>. You can view the changes in bbPress between <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F1.0-alpha-1&#038;old=1636&#038;new_path=tags%2F1.0-alpha-2&#038;new=1788">1.0-alpha-1 and 1.0-alpha-2</a>, as well as the changes that have been made to BackPress between <a href="http://backpress.automattic.com/changeset?old_path=trunk&#038;old=109&#038;new_path=trunk&#038;new=161">revision 109 and 161</a>.</p>
<p>The XML-RPC functionality now built into bbPress 1.0 alpha has made possible a new plugin for WordPress called &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/">bbPress Live</a>&#8220;. Currently this plugin can grab a list of forums and latest topics for display on a WordPress blog. Two configurable widgets are provided to pop the information into sidebars. Future versions of the plugin will allow WordPress posts to be copied to a bbPress forum, much like the bbSync plugin does for earlier versions of bbPress. The difference is that bbPress Live does not require the bbPress and WordPress sites to be on the same server, as all interaction is via XML-RPC calls rather than direct database queries.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:36:39 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Sam Bauers";}s:7:"summary";s:1479:"<p>The next installation in the bbPress 1.0 alpha series has been released. bbPress 1.0 alpha 2 introduces new features and fixes most of the issues raised by testers from the previous release.</p>
<p>A lot of the features were covered in a <a href="http://bbpress.org/blog/2008/09/bbpress-10-alpha-series-update/">previous post</a>. You can view the changes in bbPress between <a href="http://trac.bbpress.org/changeset?old_path=tags%2F1.0-alpha-1&#038;old=1636&#038;new_path=tags%2F1.0-alpha-2&#038;new=1788">1.0-alpha-1 and 1.0-alpha-2</a>, as well as the changes that have been made to BackPress between <a href="http://backpress.automattic.com/changeset?old_path=trunk&#038;old=109&#038;new_path=trunk&#038;new=161">revision 109 and 161</a>.</p>
<p>The XML-RPC functionality now built into bbPress 1.0 alpha has made possible a new plugin for WordPress called &#8220;<a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/">bbPress Live</a>&#8220;. Currently this plugin can grab a list of forums and latest topics for display on a WordPress blog. Two configurable widgets are provided to pop the information into sidebars. Future versions of the plugin will allow WordPress posts to be copied to a bbPress forum, much like the bbSync plugin does for earlier versions of bbPress. The difference is that bbPress Live does not require the bbPress and WordPress sites to be on the same server, as all interaction is via XML-RPC calls rather than direct database queries.</p>";}i:32;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/08";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4317";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/08/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1008/";s:11:"description";s:2598:"<p><a href="http://www.zen-dreams.com/en/zdmultilang/"><strong>ZdMultilang</strong></a></p>
<p>ZdMultilang is a Multilingual plugin for Wordpress allowing you to blog in more than one language. You can define multiple languages and translate posts/tags/categories using the interface that will be added to your blog’s administration panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zen-dreams.com/en/2008/10/08/new-version-of-gravatar-recent-comment/"><strong>Gravatar Recent Comment</strong></a></p>
<p>Gravatar recent comments is a plugin allowing you to display recent comments using Gravatar instead of just the name of the user.</p>
<p><a href="http://calendarscripts.info/ovulation-predictor-wordpress-plugin.html"><strong>Ovulation Predictor</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin displays functional ovulation and due date predictor. It can be used from women to check their future fertile time and due date.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/2008/10/better-howdy/"><strong>Better Howdy</strong></a></p>
<p>Remove &#8216;Howdy&#8217; and restructure the &#8216;Howdy&#8217; line.</p>
<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/"><strong>WP Super Cache</strong></a></p>
<p>WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.darcynorman.net/wordpress/post-revision-display/"><strong>Post Revision Display</strong></a></p>
<p>Display the list of revisions for a post, without having to go through the admin interface</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nkuttler.de/nkthemeswitch/"><strong>nkthemeswitch</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin was written do allow usage of different themes for logged in users. It is intended for theme developers who want to test their themes on live sites without breaking things for visitors.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alfredodehoces.com/wp2bb"><strong>Wp2BB</strong></a></p>
<p>Wp2BB integrates your WordPress blog and your phpBB forum. It automatically creates new topics in the forum for every new post in your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cristianofino.net/post/Comment-toolbar-plugin-per-Wordpress.aspx"><strong>Comment Toolbar</strong></a></p>
<p>This plug-in adds up to six buttons at the end (or the top) of every comments to automatically insert Comments Navigation, Reply and Quote functions</p>
<p><a href="http://pancake.org/zina"><strong>Zina</strong></a></p>
<p>Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:21:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2598:"<p><a href="http://www.zen-dreams.com/en/zdmultilang/"><strong>ZdMultilang</strong></a></p>
<p>ZdMultilang is a Multilingual plugin for Wordpress allowing you to blog in more than one language. You can define multiple languages and translate posts/tags/categories using the interface that will be added to your blog’s administration panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.zen-dreams.com/en/2008/10/08/new-version-of-gravatar-recent-comment/"><strong>Gravatar Recent Comment</strong></a></p>
<p>Gravatar recent comments is a plugin allowing you to display recent comments using Gravatar instead of just the name of the user.</p>
<p><a href="http://calendarscripts.info/ovulation-predictor-wordpress-plugin.html"><strong>Ovulation Predictor</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin displays functional ovulation and due date predictor. It can be used from women to check their future fertile time and due date.</p>
<p><a href="http://sivel.net/2008/10/better-howdy/"><strong>Better Howdy</strong></a></p>
<p>Remove &#8216;Howdy&#8217; and restructure the &#8216;Howdy&#8217; line.</p>
<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/"><strong>WP Super Cache</strong></a></p>
<p>WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.darcynorman.net/wordpress/post-revision-display/"><strong>Post Revision Display</strong></a></p>
<p>Display the list of revisions for a post, without having to go through the admin interface</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nkuttler.de/nkthemeswitch/"><strong>nkthemeswitch</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin was written do allow usage of different themes for logged in users. It is intended for theme developers who want to test their themes on live sites without breaking things for visitors.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alfredodehoces.com/wp2bb"><strong>Wp2BB</strong></a></p>
<p>Wp2BB integrates your WordPress blog and your phpBB forum. It automatically creates new topics in the forum for every new post in your blog.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cristianofino.net/post/Comment-toolbar-plugin-per-Wordpress.aspx"><strong>Comment Toolbar</strong></a></p>
<p>This plug-in adds up to six buttons at the end (or the top) of every comments to automatically insert Comments Navigation, Reply and Quote functions</p>
<p><a href="http://pancake.org/zina"><strong>Zina</strong></a></p>
<p>Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, an MP3 streamer.</p>";}i:33;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:42:"Donncha: WP Super Cache 0.8.3 “Speedy”";s:4:"guid";s:29:"http://ocaoimh.ie/?p=89494115";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/10/08/wp-super-cache-083-speedy/";s:11:"description";s:2260:"<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/">WP Super Cache</a> version 0.8.3 is now <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/">available</a>. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.</p>
<h3>Double Caching</h3>
<p>This releases fixes a long standing compression bug. In older versions of the plugin, the cached page was compressed twice. Once to display to the current visitor, and once again for the cached files stored on the server. This has now been fixed and there&#8217;s a noticeable speed increase for anonymous visitors. Unfortunately as a side effect, it&#8217;s not possible to display the &#8220;super cache gz&#8221; html comment now. To verify that html pages are being served from the supercache directory you&#8217;ll have to add an error_log() somewhere and check that visits <em>aren&#8217;t</em> logged.<br />
The plugin now uses fopen() instead of gzopen() which according to <a href="http://ie2.php.net/manual/en/function.gzopen.php#85561">a comment</a> on the gzopen() manual page is unreliable under high load.</p>
<h3>IE7 Fixes</h3>
<p>Apparently IE7 has problems when gzipped files are served as &#8220;x-gzip&#8221; files, under certain circumstances. This is an obscure bug but this has been fixed. If you&#8217;re upgrading, either remove wp-content/cache/.htaccess and visit the admin page and that file will be regenerated, or edit that file and change &#8220;x-gzip&#8221; to &#8220;gzip&#8221;.</p>
<p>A number of smaller bugs were also fixed. Check the <a href="http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-super-cache/trunk/Changelog.txt">changelog</a> for further info.</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/29/want-to-test-super-speed-caching/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Want to test super speed caching?">Want to test super speed caching?</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/03/13/wp-super-cache-06/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.6">WP Super Cache 0.6</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/20/wp-super-cache-067/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.6.7">WP Super Cache 0.6.7</a></li></ul></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:58:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:7:"Donncha";}s:7:"summary";s:2260:"<p><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/wp-super-cache/">WP Super Cache</a> version 0.8.3 is now <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/">available</a>. WP Super Cache is a page caching plugin for WordPress that will significantly speed up your website.</p>
<h3>Double Caching</h3>
<p>This releases fixes a long standing compression bug. In older versions of the plugin, the cached page was compressed twice. Once to display to the current visitor, and once again for the cached files stored on the server. This has now been fixed and there&#8217;s a noticeable speed increase for anonymous visitors. Unfortunately as a side effect, it&#8217;s not possible to display the &#8220;super cache gz&#8221; html comment now. To verify that html pages are being served from the supercache directory you&#8217;ll have to add an error_log() somewhere and check that visits <em>aren&#8217;t</em> logged.<br />
The plugin now uses fopen() instead of gzopen() which according to <a href="http://ie2.php.net/manual/en/function.gzopen.php#85561">a comment</a> on the gzopen() manual page is unreliable under high load.</p>
<h3>IE7 Fixes</h3>
<p>Apparently IE7 has problems when gzipped files are served as &#8220;x-gzip&#8221; files, under certain circumstances. This is an obscure bug but this has been fixed. If you&#8217;re upgrading, either remove wp-content/cache/.htaccess and visit the admin page and that file will be regenerated, or edit that file and change &#8220;x-gzip&#8221; to &#8220;gzip&#8221;.</p>
<p>A number of smaller bugs were also fixed. Check the <a href="http://svn.wp-plugins.org/wp-super-cache/trunk/Changelog.txt">changelog</a> for further info.</p>
<p><img src="http://ocaoimh.ie/?voyeur=1" /></p><p><strong>Related Posts</strong><ul><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/09/29/want-to-test-super-speed-caching/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Want to test super speed caching?">Want to test super speed caching?</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/03/13/wp-super-cache-06/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.6">WP Super Cache 0.6</a></li><li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/2008/08/20/wp-super-cache-067/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: WP Super Cache 0.6.7">WP Super Cache 0.6.7</a></li></ul></p>";}i:34;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:53:"Weblog Tools Collection: Where Is That Settings Page?";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4312";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/08/where-is-that-settings-page/";s:11:"description";s:3697:"<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve noticed since using WordPress is that after you install a number of plugins, it becomes clear that there is no standard for where to place the plugin configuration link. Sometimes, the configuration link for a plugin shows up in the dashboard while other times, the link appears within the Manage panel. To top things off, many of the plugins provide links to their specific settings in the Settings panel. How much time do you think you have wasted so far by always searching for a particular plugins settings page?</p>
<p>Over the weekend, I happened to come across a post written by <a href="http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/2008/10/01/unobtrusive-config-for-fire-and-forget-plugins/" target="_blank">Andrew Rickmann</a> which showcased an idea to create a <strong>configure</strong> link next next to the usual <strong>Activate/Deactivate Edit</strong> links found within the Plugin Management panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/configurelink.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4313" title="configurelink" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/configurelink.png" alt="" width="243" height="98" /></a></p>
<p>Andrew&#8217;s point of view is that, instead of adding top level menu items to the WordPress administration panels, it would be far easier to click on a configure link that would open up a sliding panel which would present anywhere from 1-5 configurable settings. Not only does this idea make configuring plugins faster, but it makes browsing the WordPress administration panel much easier as the top level navigation system is not filled with links. On top of that, the configure link makes complete sense to be located next to the Deactivate/Edit links. In doing so, configuration options are in a predictable location.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/configureinaction.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4314" title="configureinaction" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/configureinaction.png" alt="" width="500" height="115" /></a></p>
<p>In my opinion, here are a couple of reasons why we are not seeing something like this already being used. Number one, WordPress is open source meaning anytime you try to implement anything close to a standard, it probably won&#8217;t work. People will come up with their own solutions to the problem which is one of the beauties of Open Source but can also be a contributing problem. Secondly, this was brought up over two years ago. You can see the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/63824?replies=13" target="_blank">initial forum thread here</a> and the post on the <a href="http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2006-March/005247.html" target="_blank">WP-Hackers Mailing List from Owen here</a>. Considering we have gone two years without any move towards a solution such as the one Andrew suggested, perhaps we will always be at the mercy as to where plugin authors place their configuration links.</p>
<p>Plugin authors can bring up the fact that they provide directions within their readme files that indicate where to find the configuration page. While they may help in the short term, that doesn&#8217;t solve the root of the overall problem. Andrew&#8217;s idea is something that can be implemented by plugin authors right now. In terms of something like this being added to the core, according to Andrew, the process is so simple, it probably doesn&#8217;t need to be added.</p>
<p><strong>Where do you stand on this issue? Would you like to see more plugin authors implement Andrew&#8217;s idea into their own plugin or is there a better alternative? </strong></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:00:09 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:3697:"<p>One of the things I&#8217;ve noticed since using WordPress is that after you install a number of plugins, it becomes clear that there is no standard for where to place the plugin configuration link. Sometimes, the configuration link for a plugin shows up in the dashboard while other times, the link appears within the Manage panel. To top things off, many of the plugins provide links to their specific settings in the Settings panel. How much time do you think you have wasted so far by always searching for a particular plugins settings page?</p>
<p>Over the weekend, I happened to come across a post written by <a href="http://www.wp-fun.co.uk/2008/10/01/unobtrusive-config-for-fire-and-forget-plugins/" target="_blank">Andrew Rickmann</a> which showcased an idea to create a <strong>configure</strong> link next next to the usual <strong>Activate/Deactivate Edit</strong> links found within the Plugin Management panel.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/configurelink.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4313" title="configurelink" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/configurelink.png" alt="" width="243" height="98" /></a></p>
<p>Andrew&#8217;s point of view is that, instead of adding top level menu items to the WordPress administration panels, it would be far easier to click on a configure link that would open up a sliding panel which would present anywhere from 1-5 configurable settings. Not only does this idea make configuring plugins faster, but it makes browsing the WordPress administration panel much easier as the top level navigation system is not filled with links. On top of that, the configure link makes complete sense to be located next to the Deactivate/Edit links. In doing so, configuration options are in a predictable location.</p>
<p><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/configureinaction.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4314" title="configureinaction" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/configureinaction.png" alt="" width="500" height="115" /></a></p>
<p>In my opinion, here are a couple of reasons why we are not seeing something like this already being used. Number one, WordPress is open source meaning anytime you try to implement anything close to a standard, it probably won&#8217;t work. People will come up with their own solutions to the problem which is one of the beauties of Open Source but can also be a contributing problem. Secondly, this was brought up over two years ago. You can see the <a href="http://wordpress.org/support/topic/63824?replies=13" target="_blank">initial forum thread here</a> and the post on the <a href="http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-hackers/2006-March/005247.html" target="_blank">WP-Hackers Mailing List from Owen here</a>. Considering we have gone two years without any move towards a solution such as the one Andrew suggested, perhaps we will always be at the mercy as to where plugin authors place their configuration links.</p>
<p>Plugin authors can bring up the fact that they provide directions within their readme files that indicate where to find the configuration page. While they may help in the short term, that doesn&#8217;t solve the root of the overall problem. Andrew&#8217;s idea is something that can be implemented by plugin authors right now. In terms of something like this being added to the core, according to Andrew, the process is so simple, it probably doesn&#8217;t need to be added.</p>
<p><strong>Where do you stand on this issue? Would you like to see more plugin authors implement Andrew&#8217;s idea into their own plugin or is there a better alternative? </strong></p>";}i:35;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:45:"Matt: Berlin WordPress / Web 2.0 Expo Drinkup";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7902";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/berlin-meetup/";s:11:"description";s:1005:"<p>I&#8217;m in Germany for the first time and I&#8217;d love to meet some of the <a href="http://wordpress-deutschland.org/">WordPress community</a> here. With the help of <a href="http://kabai33.redbubble.com/">Yamile Yemoonyah</a> we have a venue and such for a get-together this Thursday. Since there&#8217;s an <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/webexberlin2008/public/content/home">upcoming Web 2.0 Expo right here in Berlin</a> we&#8217;re co-hosting with those folks to make the event extra-fun. Here are the deets:</p>
<p><strong>Thursday, Oct 9th at 7 p.m.<br />
&#8220;Dachkammer&#8221;<br />
Simon-Dach-Str. 39<br />
10245 Berlin<br />
030 2961673 </strong></p>
<p>If you have a German blog or Twitter please help spread the word! Hope to see you there.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Got a discount code from the conference, <a href="https://en.oreilly.com/webexberlin2008/public/register">if you register here</a> and enter the code <code>webeu08gr99</code> you&#8217;ll get a 35% discount.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:09:50 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:1005:"<p>I&#8217;m in Germany for the first time and I&#8217;d love to meet some of the <a href="http://wordpress-deutschland.org/">WordPress community</a> here. With the help of <a href="http://kabai33.redbubble.com/">Yamile Yemoonyah</a> we have a venue and such for a get-together this Thursday. Since there&#8217;s an <a href="http://en.oreilly.com/webexberlin2008/public/content/home">upcoming Web 2.0 Expo right here in Berlin</a> we&#8217;re co-hosting with those folks to make the event extra-fun. Here are the deets:</p>
<p><strong>Thursday, Oct 9th at 7 p.m.<br />
&#8220;Dachkammer&#8221;<br />
Simon-Dach-Str. 39<br />
10245 Berlin<br />
030 2961673 </strong></p>
<p>If you have a German blog or Twitter please help spread the word! Hope to see you there.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Got a discount code from the conference, <a href="https://en.oreilly.com/webexberlin2008/public/register">if you register here</a> and enter the code <code>webeu08gr99</code> you&#8217;ll get a 35% discount.</p>";}i:36;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:30:"Alex King: WordCamp Utah Recap";s:4:"guid";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/10/06/wordcamp-utah-recap";s:4:"link";s:55:"http://alexking.org/blog/2008/10/06/wordcamp-utah-recap";s:11:"description";s:5042:"<p>(I had intended to get this posted early last week, but pushing all of the meetings, etc. from the week prior to WordCamp Utah to last week torpedoed that pretty effectively.)</p>
<p><a href="http://utah.wordcamp.org/" rel="external">WordCamp Utah</a> was a great event - well organized by <a href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2008/09/29/wordcamp-utah-recap/#comments" rel="external">Joseph Scott</a> (thanks Joseph!), well attended and with some very <a href="http://utah.wordcamp.org/schedule/" rel="external">good speakers</a>.</p>
<p>I gave a presentation about WordPress plugins. This was a challenging talk because of the vastness of the topic combined with the variety of the interest and technical background of the audience. Here are the slides.</p>
<div id="__ss_623887"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/alexkingorg/wordpress-plugins-wordcamp-utah-presentation?type=powerpoint" title="WordPress Plugins (WordCamp Utah)">WordPress Plugins (WordCamp Utah)</a>



<div>View SlideShare <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/alexkingorg/wordpress-plugins-wordcamp-utah-presentation?type=powerpoint" title="View WordPress Plugins (WordCamp Utah) on SlideShare">presentation</a> or <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?type=powerpoint">Upload</a> your own. (tags: <a href="http://slideshare.net/tag/carrington">carrington</a> <a href="http://slideshare.net/tag/plugins">plugins</a>)</div>
</div>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/humancell/statuses/937579413" rel="external">Some</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/tylerwhitaker/statuses/937580549" rel="external">folks</a> seemed upset that I didn&#8217;t give a technical demo of how to build a plugin. However, I chose to keep the talk at a high level based on the make-up of the audience.</p>
<p>Instead of getting into the code, I talked about techniques and approaches, and different kinds of plugins. My intent was to give people an idea of what they can do with plugins; and a little start on how to approach writing one. We may change this at <a href="http://denver.wordcamp.org" rel="external">WordCamp Denver</a> and have some technical presentations.</p>
<p>I also announced a couple of goodies at the end of the talk. We pulled an all-nighter on Friday getting everything ready for release. My presentation might have suffered a bit as a result. <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>We&#8217;ve released some <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/#tools">development tools</a> for other WordPress developers to use. These are things we&#8217;ve had to build over the years, and thought others could make good use of.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>WordPress Install (SVN Checkout) Script</strong> - a shell script will walk you through a checkout of multiple versions of WordPress from SVN and set up the requisite config file and database structure. This makes it easy to create a series of installs for testing purposes.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Compatibility Plugin</strong> - sets some constants and some other little things that provide backward compatibility for older versions of WordPress.</li>
<li><strong>Quality Assurance (QA) Checklists</strong> - checklists to help guide plugin and theme testing. Includes considerations such as WordPress version, theme compatibility, browser type, WordPress settings, etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>The biggest announcement - and the one I&#8217;m most excited about - was the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com">Carrington theme</a>, but I&#8217;ll have a follow-up post about that as there is just too much to cover here.</p>
<p>Thanks again to everyone who made WordCamp Utah a success.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Oh yeah, the presentation was recorded. (Thanks <a href="http://www.crawlspacemedia.com/blog/2008/10/06/carrington-theme/" rel="external">Jeremy</a>)</p>
<div><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/" target="_blank">Live video by Ustream</a></div>
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<p><a href="http://utah.wordcamp.org/" rel="external">WordCamp Utah</a> was a great event - well organized by <a href="http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2008/09/29/wordcamp-utah-recap/#comments" rel="external">Joseph Scott</a> (thanks Joseph!), well attended and with some very <a href="http://utah.wordcamp.org/schedule/" rel="external">good speakers</a>.</p>
<p>I gave a presentation about WordPress plugins. This was a challenging talk because of the vastness of the topic combined with the variety of the interest and technical background of the audience. Here are the slides.</p>
<div id="__ss_623887"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/alexkingorg/wordpress-plugins-wordcamp-utah-presentation?type=powerpoint" title="WordPress Plugins (WordCamp Utah)">WordPress Plugins (WordCamp Utah)</a>



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<p><a href="http://twitter.com/humancell/statuses/937579413" rel="external">Some</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/tylerwhitaker/statuses/937580549" rel="external">folks</a> seemed upset that I didn&#8217;t give a technical demo of how to build a plugin. However, I chose to keep the talk at a high level based on the make-up of the audience.</p>
<p>Instead of getting into the code, I talked about techniques and approaches, and different kinds of plugins. My intent was to give people an idea of what they can do with plugins; and a little start on how to approach writing one. We may change this at <a href="http://denver.wordcamp.org" rel="external">WordCamp Denver</a> and have some technical presentations.</p>
<p>I also announced a couple of goodies at the end of the talk. We pulled an all-nighter on Friday getting everything ready for release. My presentation might have suffered a bit as a result. <img src="http://alexking.org/wp/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p>We&#8217;ve released some <a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/#tools">development tools</a> for other WordPress developers to use. These are things we&#8217;ve had to build over the years, and thought others could make good use of.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>WordPress Install (SVN Checkout) Script</strong> - a shell script will walk you through a checkout of multiple versions of WordPress from SVN and set up the requisite config file and database structure. This makes it easy to create a series of installs for testing purposes.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress Compatibility Plugin</strong> - sets some constants and some other little things that provide backward compatibility for older versions of WordPress.</li>
<li><strong>Quality Assurance (QA) Checklists</strong> - checklists to help guide plugin and theme testing. Includes considerations such as WordPress version, theme compatibility, browser type, WordPress settings, etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>The biggest announcement - and the one I&#8217;m most excited about - was the <a href="http://carringtontheme.com">Carrington theme</a>, but I&#8217;ll have a follow-up post about that as there is just too much to cover here.</p>
<p>Thanks again to everyone who made WordCamp Utah a success.</p>
<p>UPDATE: Oh yeah, the presentation was recorded. (Thanks <a href="http://www.crawlspacemedia.com/blog/2008/10/06/carrington-theme/" rel="external">Jeremy</a>)</p>
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	-->";}i:37;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:28:"Matt: Absentee Ballot Voting";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7903";s:4:"link";s:44:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/absentee-ballot-voting/";s:11:"description";s:421:"<p>Because of travel and uncertainty with my schedule I&#8217;m going to vote absentee in this election. There seem to be two good sites with wizards that walk you through everything: <a href="http://www.govoteabsentee.org/">Go Vote Absentee</a> and <a href="http://www.longdistancevoter.org/">Long Distance Voter</a>. Going into polls and waiting in lines seems like an anachronism. Someday I hope I can vote online.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:00:52 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:421:"<p>Because of travel and uncertainty with my schedule I&#8217;m going to vote absentee in this election. There seem to be two good sites with wizards that walk you through everything: <a href="http://www.govoteabsentee.org/">Go Vote Absentee</a> and <a href="http://www.longdistancevoter.org/">Long Distance Voter</a>. Going into polls and waiting in lines seems like an anachronism. Someday I hope I can vote online.</p>";}i:38;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:19:"Matt: Broken Kindle";s:4:"guid";s:20:"http://ma.tt/?p=7899";s:4:"link";s:35:"http://ma.tt/2008/10/broken-kindle/";s:11:"description";s:516:"<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photomatt/2910293336/">My Kindle is quite broken</a>, not sure how it happened, probably it got pressure in my bag or something? Since I&#8217;ve been <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/05/29/matt-mullenweg-interview/">professing my love of the Kindle to anyone who will listen</a> maybe Amazon will send a replacement, if not I&#8217;ll try to go through support when I get back to the states. In the meantime, back to reading dead trees (or more likely not much at all).</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:36:24 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Matt";}s:7:"summary";s:516:"<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/photomatt/2910293336/">My Kindle is quite broken</a>, not sure how it happened, probably it got pressure in my bag or something? Since I&#8217;ve been <a href="http://mashable.com/2008/05/29/matt-mullenweg-interview/">professing my love of the Kindle to anyone who will listen</a> maybe Amazon will send a replacement, if not I&#8217;ll try to go through support when I get back to the states. In the meantime, back to reading dead trees (or more likely not much at all).</p>";}i:39;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Weblog Tools Collection: State of Wordpress from WordCamp NYC";s:4:"guid";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/06/state-of-wordpress-from-wordcamp-nyc/";s:4:"link";s:90:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/06/state-of-wordpress-from-wordcamp-nyc/";s:11:"description";s:473:"<p><a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-wordcamp">WordCamp NYC: Matt Mullenweg on the State of Wordpress</a>:CenterNetworks has posted a first row video of Matt&#8217;s State of the WordPress at the WordCamp NYC event this weekend. They will also be posting two other videos including a <a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/wordpress-27-demo">walkthrough of the 2.7 release</a> and one on the future of WordPress. Be sure to check them out.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:18:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:10:"Mark Ghosh";}s:7:"summary";s:473:"<p><a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-wordcamp">WordCamp NYC: Matt Mullenweg on the State of Wordpress</a>:CenterNetworks has posted a first row video of Matt&#8217;s State of the WordPress at the WordCamp NYC event this weekend. They will also be posting two other videos including a <a href="http://www.centernetworks.com/wordpress-27-demo">walkthrough of the 2.7 release</a> and one on the future of WordPress. Be sure to check them out.</p>";}i:40;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/06";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4306";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/06/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1006/";s:11:"description";s:3185:"<p><a href="http://kahi.cz/wordpress/ravens-antispam-plugin/"><strong>Raven&#8217;s Antispam</strong></a></p>
<p>Raven&#8217;s antispam is a WordPress plugin, powerful and invisible fighter against comment spam.</p>
<p><a href="http://undeuxoutrois.de/cronjob_control.shtml"><strong>Cronjob Control</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of your weblog in the &#8220;Site Admin&#8221; area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s)</p>
<p><a href="http://undeuxoutrois.de/wp-db-backup-via-ftp.shtml"><strong>FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin adds a fourth way to save the database backup files of the <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup">WP Database Backup</a> plugin. With the standard <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup">WP Database Backup</a> plugin you can save the database tables of your weblog a file. This backup file can stored on the server of your weblog, send to an email account or saved (manually) to your local hard disk.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/wordpress-plugin-update-urls/"><strong>Update URLs</strong></a></p>
<p>When you move WordPress to a new domain or directory, the permalinks are not updated. This plugin updates all permalinks. In addition, it also gives the user the option to update any links within posts and pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/"><strong>FV Community News</strong></a></p>
<p>Allow your visitors to add articles to the sidebar or anywhere else. Complete with moderation panel and a settings page, you can sit back while you have full control about the look and articles that being posted.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/10/06/caption-disabler-wordpress-plugin-to-disable-and-remove-captions-functionality/"><strong>Caption Disabler</strong></a></p>
<p>Caption Disabler is a WordPress plugin that removes and disables captions feature in WordPress so that all caption shortcode is not been parsed or translated, and no  and  HTML entities are automatically added while editing or writing.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-reply-to-comment/"><strong>jQuery Reply to Comment</strong></a></p>
<p>Add &#8220;reply&#8221; and &#8220;quote&#8221; features on each comment list.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/"><strong>Redirection</strong></a></p>
<p>Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.glockeasymail.com/wordpress-email-newsletter-plugin-for-double-opt-in-subscription/"><strong>WP Double Opt-In List Management</strong></a></p>
<p>This WordPress email list management plugin allows the visitors of your blog subscribe to your mailing list using a double opt-in method. The signup form (Email, Name and other fields) is placed on the WordPress blog sidebar. After a user fills in the form and clicks &#8220;Subscribe&#8221;, WP double opt-in plugin sends an email with the subscription confirmation link to the user.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:11:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:3185:"<p><a href="http://kahi.cz/wordpress/ravens-antispam-plugin/"><strong>Raven&#8217;s Antispam</strong></a></p>
<p>Raven&#8217;s antispam is a WordPress plugin, powerful and invisible fighter against comment spam.</p>
<p><a href="http://undeuxoutrois.de/cronjob_control.shtml"><strong>Cronjob Control</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin shows you all active WP cronjobs (scheduled tasks) of your weblog in the &#8220;Site Admin&#8221; area and if you want, you can stop the cronjob(s)</p>
<p><a href="http://undeuxoutrois.de/wp-db-backup-via-ftp.shtml"><strong>FTP Plugin for WP Database Backup Plugin</strong></a></p>
<p>This plugin adds a fourth way to save the database backup files of the <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup">WP Database Backup</a> plugin. With the standard <a href="http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup">WP Database Backup</a> plugin you can save the database tables of your weblog a file. This backup file can stored on the server of your weblog, send to an email account or saved (manually) to your local hard disk.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.velvetblues.com/web-development-blog/wordpress-plugin-update-urls/"><strong>Update URLs</strong></a></p>
<p>When you move WordPress to a new domain or directory, the permalinks are not updated. This plugin updates all permalinks. In addition, it also gives the user the option to update any links within posts and pages.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frank-verhoeven.com/wordpress-plugin-fv-community-news/"><strong>FV Community News</strong></a></p>
<p>Allow your visitors to add articles to the sidebar or anywhere else. Complete with moderation panel and a settings page, you can sit back while you have full control about the look and articles that being posted.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/10/06/caption-disabler-wordpress-plugin-to-disable-and-remove-captions-functionality/"><strong>Caption Disabler</strong></a></p>
<p>Caption Disabler is a WordPress plugin that removes and disables captions feature in WordPress so that all caption shortcode is not been parsed or translated, and no  and  HTML entities are automatically added while editing or writing.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-reply-to-comment/"><strong>jQuery Reply to Comment</strong></a></p>
<p>Add &#8220;reply&#8221; and &#8220;quote&#8221; features on each comment list.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/redirection/"><strong>Redirection</strong></a></p>
<p>Redirection is a WordPress plugin to manage 301 redirections, keep track of 404 errors, and generally tidy up any loose ends your site may have.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.glockeasymail.com/wordpress-email-newsletter-plugin-for-double-opt-in-subscription/"><strong>WP Double Opt-In List Management</strong></a></p>
<p>This WordPress email list management plugin allows the visitors of your blog subscribe to your mailing list using a double opt-in method. The signup form (Email, Name and other fields) is placed on the WordPress blog sidebar. After a user fills in the form and clicks &#8220;Subscribe&#8221;, WP double opt-in plugin sends an email with the subscription confirmation link to the user.</p>";}i:41;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/05";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4304";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/05/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1005/";s:11:"description";s:1348:"<p><a href="http://www.thekingcart.com/2008/10/02/crafty-cart-free-wordpress-ecommerce-plugin-theme/"><strong>Crafty Cart</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.billionstudio.com/?wptheme=Crafty%20Cart"><img title="crafty-cart-thumb" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/craftycartthumb.png" border="0" alt="crafty-cart-thumb" width="150" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Today we are proud to release our very first freebie Crafty Cart – a free theme for your WordPress e-Commerce store. It’s a fresh flavoured retro style for selling t-shirts and handmade items, designed to be a starting point for your online shop.</p>
<p><a href="http://pure-essence.net/2008/10/02/wordpress-theme-daffodil/"><strong>daffodil</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="daffodil" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/daffodil.png" border="0" alt="daffodil" width="142" height="114" /></p>
<p>Fixed width, three columns, widget ready green and yellow theme</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bestcmsthemes.com/details/desert-grass/wp"><strong>Desert Grass</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bestcmsthemes.com/preview/desert-grass/wp"><img title="desertgrass" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/desertgrass.png" border="0" alt="desertgrass" width="129" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:34:54 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1348:"<p><a href="http://www.thekingcart.com/2008/10/02/crafty-cart-free-wordpress-ecommerce-plugin-theme/"><strong>Crafty Cart</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://demo.billionstudio.com/?wptheme=Crafty%20Cart"><img title="crafty-cart-thumb" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/craftycartthumb.png" border="0" alt="crafty-cart-thumb" width="150" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Today we are proud to release our very first freebie Crafty Cart – a free theme for your WordPress e-Commerce store. It’s a fresh flavoured retro style for selling t-shirts and handmade items, designed to be a starting point for your online shop.</p>
<p><a href="http://pure-essence.net/2008/10/02/wordpress-theme-daffodil/"><strong>daffodil</strong></a></p>
<p><img title="daffodil" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/daffodil.png" border="0" alt="daffodil" width="142" height="114" /></p>
<p>Fixed width, three columns, widget ready green and yellow theme</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bestcmsthemes.com/details/desert-grass/wp"><strong>Desert Grass</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.bestcmsthemes.com/preview/desert-grass/wp"><img title="desertgrass" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/desertgrass.png" border="0" alt="desertgrass" width="129" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, fixed width, widget ready theme</p>";}i:42;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Weblog Tools Collection: Ian Stewart On Child Themes - Part 2";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4276";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/05/ian-stewart-on-child-themes-part-2/";s:11:"description";s:7826:"<p>This is the second part of a 2 part interview with Ian Stewart on child themes. Enjoy.</p>
<p><strong>5. Speaking of child themes and theme frameworks, can you explain how one would upgrade a child theme when a theme framework is involved?</strong></p>
<p>From the end users perspective there&#8217;s really no change in how you use a Child Theme as opposed to a regular theme and there&#8217;s really no change in how you upgrade that theme. Even if a theme framework is involved.</p>
<p>But the process of upgrading that Child Theme can be improved on. One thing I do in the pre-designed Thematic Child Themes I release commercially is add in a function that looks for a &#8220;variant.css&#8221; file in the wp-content directory. That function lets you make minor changes like adding background images and changing colors within variant.css without touching the original Child Theme CSS, making it ready to be upgraded itself without headache or incident—just like the framework it&#8217;s building on top of.</p>
<p><strong> 6. How do you see theme frameworks and child themes affecting the premium theme market?</strong></p>
<p><em>Hugely</em>. I see theme frameworks affecting the commercial theming market hugely. Frankly, if you&#8217;re making money through WordPress themes, either by selling pre-designed themes or creating custom ones for individual clients, and you haven&#8217;t taken a good hard look at using Child Themes in your business you&#8217;re wasting your time.</p>
<p>Consider this scenario: your company, or Theme Club, or who-knows-what, releases a GPL Theme Framework through the WordPress Themes Directory that the whole community can enjoy. You create a WordPress Child Theme for an individual client that builds on top of that framework, or maybe release a pre-designed Child Theme for it commercially on a Theme Club site. And because you&#8217;re awesome, money rolls in.</p>
<p>Now, when WordPress eventually changes—for the better, of course—you&#8217;re going to have to update some of that theme code. But! you&#8217;re probably only going to have to update the code in your Parent Theme—just like I mentioned in the example earlier with ThemeShaper.com and Thematic. What does that mean for your business? Because you&#8217;ve released the framework through the Themes directory every one of your clients will receive automatic notification of the upgrade and—thanks to changes in WordPress 2.7—they can download and install the upgraded theme almost instantly with the click of a button in the WordPress admin. Now, if you&#8217;re cutting theme maintenance down you&#8217;re freeing up more time to work on other areas of your business. Like, designing more Child Themes and making more money.</p>
<p>And even if you&#8217;re not releasing your theme framework through the WordPress Themes Directory, frameworks and Child Themes are still going to make your life easier. As professional WordPress theme developer Darren Hoyt says, &#8220;anyone who builds a quantity of WordPress sites throughout the year would be crazy to not already have their own baseline theme&#8221; (<a href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/" target="_blank">http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/</a>). And the easiest way to make changes to that baseline theme, while <em>treating it</em> like a real framework, is by using a Child Theme.</p>
<p><strong>7. Do you think that if this trend becomes popular, would end users see a battle between the best theme frameworks via theme authors?</strong></p>
<p>Absolutely. Everyone that&#8217;s ever released a WordPress theme knows about the warm feeling you get from people—often a lot of people—actually using your work (that&#8217;s not facetiousness, it&#8217;s one of the main reasons I think people <em>keep on</em> releasing themes). But there&#8217;s also a whole host of other benefits like increased site traffic, link building and authority in the community that provide you opportunities for making money by releasing themes for free or commercially. Sometimes a lot of money. All those benefits start to compound when you start talking about releasing a theme framework. A popular theme framework has the potential to become a self-advertising, lead-generating, service-selling machine. I think theme authors are starting to realize what that can mean for them which means, in turn, that we&#8217;ll probably soon see a whole bunch of theme frameworks popping up.</p>
<p>But really, a theme framework is just a good WordPress theme. We should <em>hope</em> there&#8217;s a battle to create the best GPL theme framework. That&#8217;s a battle where <em>everybody</em> in the WordPress community wins.</p>
<p><strong>8. Would you care to share any other knowledge or information with our readers that you would like to cover with regards to this topic?</strong></p>
<p>There&#8217;s actually a fair bit of information out there now on how to work with Child Themes. I&#8217;ve compiled a quick list of links that should give you all the information you need to get started.</p>
<p>Any WordPress Theme Can Be a Blank Framework (<a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-blank-framework/" target="_blank">http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-blank-framework/</a>)</p>
<p>How I used a WordPress Child Theme To Redesign My Blog The Smart Way (<a href="http://themeshaper.com/functions-php-wordpress-child-themes/" target="_blank">http://themeshaper.com/functions-php-wordpress-child-themes/</a>)</p>
<p>A Revolution in Theming: WordPress Theme Frameworks (<a href="http://themeshaper.com/revolution-wordpress-theme-frameworks/" target="_blank">http://themeshaper.com/revolution-wordpress-theme-frameworks/</a>)</p>
<p>How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades (<a href="http://themeshaper.com/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-theme-against-upgrades/" target="_blank">http://themeshaper.com/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-theme-against-upgrades/</a>)</p>
<p>The WordPress Codex (<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Theme_Style_Sheet" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Theme_Style_Sheet</a>)</p>
<p>Designing for The Sandbox (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/sandbox-theme/wiki/DesigningForSandbox" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/sandbox-theme/wiki/DesigningForSandbox</a>)</p>
<p>Creating WordPress Child Themes (<a href="http://wangenweb.com/2008/07/creating-wordpress-child-themes/" target="_blank">http://wangenweb.com/2008/07/creating-wordpress-child-themes/</a>)</p>
<p>Theme Inheritance (<a href="http://extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance/" target="_blank">http://extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance/</a>)</p>
<p>How to make a &#8220;child theme&#8221; for WordPress. A pictorial introduction for beginners (<a href="http://op111.net/p53" target="_blank">http://op111.net/p53</a>)</p>
<p>Exploring WordPress Frameworks and Child Themes (<a href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/" target="_blank">http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/</a>)</p>
<p>Frameworks, Child Themes, Filters, and Hooks? (<a href="http://wpcandy.com/articles/frameworks-child-themes-filters-and-hook.html" target="_blank">http://wpcandy.com/articles/frameworks-child-themes-filters-and-hook.html</a>)</p>
<p>Brainstorming the Ultimate WordPress Theming Framework (<a href="http://ptahdunbar.com/my-projects/brainstorming-a-wordpress-theming-framework/" target="_blank">http://ptahdunbar.com/my-projects/brainstorming-a-wordpress-theming-framework/</a>)</p>
<p>Carrington (<a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/#themes">http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/#themes</a>)</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:00:07 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:7826:"<p>This is the second part of a 2 part interview with Ian Stewart on child themes. Enjoy.</p>
<p><strong>5. Speaking of child themes and theme frameworks, can you explain how one would upgrade a child theme when a theme framework is involved?</strong></p>
<p>From the end users perspective there&#8217;s really no change in how you use a Child Theme as opposed to a regular theme and there&#8217;s really no change in how you upgrade that theme. Even if a theme framework is involved.</p>
<p>But the process of upgrading that Child Theme can be improved on. One thing I do in the pre-designed Thematic Child Themes I release commercially is add in a function that looks for a &#8220;variant.css&#8221; file in the wp-content directory. That function lets you make minor changes like adding background images and changing colors within variant.css without touching the original Child Theme CSS, making it ready to be upgraded itself without headache or incident—just like the framework it&#8217;s building on top of.</p>
<p><strong> 6. How do you see theme frameworks and child themes affecting the premium theme market?</strong></p>
<p><em>Hugely</em>. I see theme frameworks affecting the commercial theming market hugely. Frankly, if you&#8217;re making money through WordPress themes, either by selling pre-designed themes or creating custom ones for individual clients, and you haven&#8217;t taken a good hard look at using Child Themes in your business you&#8217;re wasting your time.</p>
<p>Consider this scenario: your company, or Theme Club, or who-knows-what, releases a GPL Theme Framework through the WordPress Themes Directory that the whole community can enjoy. You create a WordPress Child Theme for an individual client that builds on top of that framework, or maybe release a pre-designed Child Theme for it commercially on a Theme Club site. And because you&#8217;re awesome, money rolls in.</p>
<p>Now, when WordPress eventually changes—for the better, of course—you&#8217;re going to have to update some of that theme code. But! you&#8217;re probably only going to have to update the code in your Parent Theme—just like I mentioned in the example earlier with ThemeShaper.com and Thematic. What does that mean for your business? Because you&#8217;ve released the framework through the Themes directory every one of your clients will receive automatic notification of the upgrade and—thanks to changes in WordPress 2.7—they can download and install the upgraded theme almost instantly with the click of a button in the WordPress admin. Now, if you&#8217;re cutting theme maintenance down you&#8217;re freeing up more time to work on other areas of your business. Like, designing more Child Themes and making more money.</p>
<p>And even if you&#8217;re not releasing your theme framework through the WordPress Themes Directory, frameworks and Child Themes are still going to make your life easier. As professional WordPress theme developer Darren Hoyt says, &#8220;anyone who builds a quantity of WordPress sites throughout the year would be crazy to not already have their own baseline theme&#8221; (<a href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/" target="_blank">http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/</a>). And the easiest way to make changes to that baseline theme, while <em>treating it</em> like a real framework, is by using a Child Theme.</p>
<p><strong>7. Do you think that if this trend becomes popular, would end users see a battle between the best theme frameworks via theme authors?</strong></p>
<p>Absolutely. Everyone that&#8217;s ever released a WordPress theme knows about the warm feeling you get from people—often a lot of people—actually using your work (that&#8217;s not facetiousness, it&#8217;s one of the main reasons I think people <em>keep on</em> releasing themes). But there&#8217;s also a whole host of other benefits like increased site traffic, link building and authority in the community that provide you opportunities for making money by releasing themes for free or commercially. Sometimes a lot of money. All those benefits start to compound when you start talking about releasing a theme framework. A popular theme framework has the potential to become a self-advertising, lead-generating, service-selling machine. I think theme authors are starting to realize what that can mean for them which means, in turn, that we&#8217;ll probably soon see a whole bunch of theme frameworks popping up.</p>
<p>But really, a theme framework is just a good WordPress theme. We should <em>hope</em> there&#8217;s a battle to create the best GPL theme framework. That&#8217;s a battle where <em>everybody</em> in the WordPress community wins.</p>
<p><strong>8. Would you care to share any other knowledge or information with our readers that you would like to cover with regards to this topic?</strong></p>
<p>There&#8217;s actually a fair bit of information out there now on how to work with Child Themes. I&#8217;ve compiled a quick list of links that should give you all the information you need to get started.</p>
<p>Any WordPress Theme Can Be a Blank Framework (<a href="http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-blank-framework/" target="_blank">http://themeshaper.com/wordpress-theme-blank-framework/</a>)</p>
<p>How I used a WordPress Child Theme To Redesign My Blog The Smart Way (<a href="http://themeshaper.com/functions-php-wordpress-child-themes/" target="_blank">http://themeshaper.com/functions-php-wordpress-child-themes/</a>)</p>
<p>A Revolution in Theming: WordPress Theme Frameworks (<a href="http://themeshaper.com/revolution-wordpress-theme-frameworks/" target="_blank">http://themeshaper.com/revolution-wordpress-theme-frameworks/</a>)</p>
<p>How To Protect Your WordPress Theme Against Upgrades (<a href="http://themeshaper.com/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-theme-against-upgrades/" target="_blank">http://themeshaper.com/how-to-protect-your-wordpress-theme-against-upgrades/</a>)</p>
<p>The WordPress Codex (<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Theme_Style_Sheet" target="_blank">http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Theme_Style_Sheet</a>)</p>
<p>Designing for The Sandbox (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/sandbox-theme/wiki/DesigningForSandbox" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/sandbox-theme/wiki/DesigningForSandbox</a>)</p>
<p>Creating WordPress Child Themes (<a href="http://wangenweb.com/2008/07/creating-wordpress-child-themes/" target="_blank">http://wangenweb.com/2008/07/creating-wordpress-child-themes/</a>)</p>
<p>Theme Inheritance (<a href="http://extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance/" target="_blank">http://extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance/</a>)</p>
<p>How to make a &#8220;child theme&#8221; for WordPress. A pictorial introduction for beginners (<a href="http://op111.net/p53" target="_blank">http://op111.net/p53</a>)</p>
<p>Exploring WordPress Frameworks and Child Themes (<a href="http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/" target="_blank">http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2008/09/18/exploring-wordpress-frameworks-and-child-themes/</a>)</p>
<p>Frameworks, Child Themes, Filters, and Hooks? (<a href="http://wpcandy.com/articles/frameworks-child-themes-filters-and-hook.html" target="_blank">http://wpcandy.com/articles/frameworks-child-themes-filters-and-hook.html</a>)</p>
<p>Brainstorming the Ultimate WordPress Theming Framework (<a href="http://ptahdunbar.com/my-projects/brainstorming-a-wordpress-theming-framework/" target="_blank">http://ptahdunbar.com/my-projects/brainstorming-a-wordpress-theming-framework/</a>)</p>
<p>Carrington (<a href="http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/#themes">http://crowdfavorite.com/wordpress/#themes</a>)</p>";}i:43;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:61:"Lorelle on WP: WordCamp Portland: How WordPress Changes Lives";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3072";s:4:"link";s:86:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/wordcamp-portland-how-wordpress-changes-lives/";s:11:"description";s:21960:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?s=wordpress+events" title="WordPress Events"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/wpevents.png" alt="WordPress Events" align="right" /></a>When I was asked to speak on how WordPress changes lives at <a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland">WordCamp Portland</a> in September of 2008, I was faced with a dilemma. While WordPress does change lives, blogging changes more lives. How do I connect the dots between WordPress and the life changing experience of blogging?</p>
<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fairyblogmother-sm.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fairyblogmother-sm.jpg?w=156" alt="" title="The WordPress Fairy Blogmother in Portland, Oregon, at WordCamp Portland in her pajamas" width="156" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3073" /></a>I didn&#8217;t realize that the WordPress Community would give me the answers I needed to that question. Their inspirational answers led to the following video on how WordPress changes lives, and the creation of the WordPress Fairy Blogmother.</p>
<p>WordPress changes lives because of the community. Over and over again, people told me that WordPress changes their lives because of the people it brings into their lives. While it doesn&#8217;t really matter what blogging platform you may use, it&#8217;s the community that supports and encourages fellow WordPress users that makes the difference. Without the <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/support" title="WordPress Support Forums" rel="tag">WordPress Support Forums</a>, the incredible free WordPress Themes created by imaginative and altruistic fans, the powerful WordPress Plugins created and shared by those who saw a challenge and found a solution, and the support and willingness of WordPress users to educate others on how to use the program and make it work better - there would be no community.</p>
<p>WordPress has inspired many to learn about coding, design, web development, marketing, but also how to be a part of a community. WordPress fans are the definition of the social web. With the passion that comes with learning and sharing WordPress tips, tricks, and techniques, they&#8217;ve founded a grassroots community, which led to WordPress meetups and social gatherings, and now to WordCamps around the world. </p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/lizstrauss_glenda_lorelle_bwe.jpg" alt="" title="Liz Strauss, Glenda Watson Hyatt, and Lorelle VanFossen at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas 2008" width="418" height="397" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3074" />When I attend the many business and professional conferences to speak and present programs, it&#8217;s fairly serious. I&#8217;m there for business. They are there for business. It&#8217;s serious stuff.</p>
<p>When I walk through the door of a WordCamp event, I&#8217;ve found family. We&#8217;re instantly friends. We all know each other, and if we don&#8217;t, we will within a few moments. We&#8217;re risk takers and yet communal spirits, sharing the risk together. When one person pushes WordPress, we all benefit from the results. </p>
<p>As I interviewed people and asked the WordPress Community for help in discovering how WordPress changes lives, I knew I had to put faces on the many people who&#8217;ve had their lives transformed by their involvement in WordPress. In the first half of the video, I honor those whom I&#8217;ve known for several years since early in the development of WordPress, as well as a few new friends. Many of these people have gone from interested enthusiasts to friends of WordPress to employees of <a href="http://www.automattic.com/" title="Automattic - parent company of WordPress, WordPress.com, Akismet, BuddyPress, and more" rel="tag">Automattic</a>, the parent company of WordPress. By using WordPress and being involved in the community, they&#8217;ve built their businesses and reputation as WordPress experts, and in turn, powerful forces on the web.<br />
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Sure, any blogging platform can do that, but there is something about Matt Mullenweg and his vision for WordPress and blogging in general that brings people together to achieve more than they could alone. This is what changes people&#8217;s lives. Together, we&#8217;re stronger with WordPress than without.</p>
<p>Enjoy all the inspirational reasons WordPress fans offered for how and why WordPress changed their lives. And don&#8217;t forget to check out <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/glenda-watson-hyatt-how-wordpress-changes-her-life-daily/" title="How WordPress Changes Her Life Daily">Glenda Watson Hyatt: How WordPress Changes Her Life Daily</a>, the video made especially for the finale of my presentation.</p>
<h4>Video of How WordPress Changes Lives</h4>
<p>There are two versions of the video. The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9HN81XSNYU" title="YouTube version of How WordPress Changes Lives">YouTube version</a> is low resolution and a smaller file size. The <a href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/Lorelle/videos/1/" title="Viddler version of How WordPress Changes Lives">Viddler version</a> is higher resolution and 138.5 meg file size. The video is ten minutes long. The transcription of the video is below.</p>
<p><strong>YouTube Version of How WordPress Changes Lives by Lorelle VanFossen</strong></p>
<p><span><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/wordcamp-portland-how-wordpress-changes-lives/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/J9HN81XSNYU/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p><strong>Viddler Version of How WordPress Changes Lives by Lorelle VanFossen</strong></p>
<p></p>
<h4>Transcription of How WordPress Changes Lives</h4>
<p>I haven&#8217;t found an easy way to add subtitles or captions to this Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum v9 program. Any help would be appreciated. Until then, this is the transcript of the video.</p>
<p><strong>Fairy Blogmother:</strong> <em>Hey, is this thing on. Hey. Is this on?<br />
Is it working? It&#8217;s not working.<br />
Bang! Bang! Hello, are you working.<br />
Ah, there we go.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>* Instrumental Music &#8220;When you wish upon a star&#8221; from Pinocchio *</em></strong></p>
<p>&#8220;When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are.<br />
Anything your heart desires will come to you.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.<br />
&#8220;When you wish upon a star, as dreamers do.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Fate is kind. She brings to those who love<br />
The sweet fulfillment of their secret longing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Like a bolt out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you through.<br />
&#8220;When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.&#8221;<br />
<em><strong><br />
Featured WordPress Community Members:</strong></em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ma.tt/" title="Matt Mullenweg">Matt Mullenweg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland">WordCamp Portland Attendees</a></li>
<li><a href="http://barry.wordpress.com/" title="Barry on WordPress">Barry Abrahamson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bobulate.com/" title="Bobulate">Liz Danzico</a></li>
<li><a href="http://andy.wordpress.com/" title="Andy Skelton">Andy Skelton</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dvorak.org/" title="General interest observations and true web-log.">John Dvorak</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.problogger.net" title="Problogger" rel="tag">Darren Rowse</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/" title="Holy Shmoly!">Donncha O&#8217;Caoimh</a></li>
<li><a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/" title="Lolcats and funny pictures">Ben Huh</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss - Successful and Outstanding Bloggers" rel="tag">Liz Strauss</a></li>
<li><a href="http://teensintech.com/" title="Teens in Tech">Daniel Brusilovsky</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Mark Ghosh</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blogwaffe.com/" title="blogwaffe">Michael D. Adams</a></li>
<li><a href="http://onemansblog.com/2008/08/25/chuck-lewis-the-seo-rapper-at-wordcamp-sanfrancisco/" title="Chuck Lewis - The SEO Rapper at WordCamp SanFrancisco - One Mans Blog">Chuck Lewis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tantek.com/" title="Tantek's Thoughts">Tantek Çelik</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordcamp.info/" title="The WordCamp Report">Patrick Havens</a></li>
<li>Trisha Miller</li>
<li><a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/" title="Mark on WordPress">Mark Jaquith</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/" title="Plagiarism Today">Jonathan and Crystal Bailey</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/" title="Jeffro2pt0">Jeff Chandler</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sparkplugging.com/" title="SparkPlugging">Wendy Piersall</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/" title="Nathan Rice">Nathan Rice</a></li>
<li><a href="http://technosailor.com/" title="Technology, Business and New Media">Aaron Brazell</a></li>
<li><a href="http://alexfrison.com/notaniche/" title="Not a Niche">Alex Frison</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" title="jane for short">Jane Wells</a></li>
</ul>
<p><em>*Music*</em></p>
<p><em>*Static*</em></p>
<div id="attachment_3079" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wordcampportlandinstreetsm.jpg" alt="WordCamp Portland 2008, taking over the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, with the Fairy Blogmother" title="WordCamp Portland 2008, taking over the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, with the Fairy Blogmother" width="728" height="363" class="size-full wp-image-3079" /><p class="wp-caption-text">WordCamp Portland 2008, taking over the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, with the Fairy Blogmother</p></div>
<p><strong>Fairy Blogmother:</strong> <em>Hello! Is this working?<br />
It&#8217;s stop working again, dang it.<br />
What&#8217;s going on here? Okay, wait, wait.<br />
Bang! Bang! Ah, there.</em></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.wiredPRworks.com/" title="WiredPRWorks">Barbara Rozgonyi</a>:</strong> Hello, my name is Barbara Rozgonyi with wiredPRworks.com, and Lorelle, thank you for interviewing me in the bathroom. How has WordPress changed my life? I can&#8217;t tell you everything in 15 seconds but I can tell you that it&#8217;s really made me into the person I&#8217;ve always wanted to be. Now, I can be an author, I can be a person who really influences lives. And boy, it&#8217;s so interesting to see what readers have to say. To see them take just a little piece of information and take it and make it huge that will help so many people. And I get to hang out with cool people like Lorelle in the ladies&#8217; room.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.johnhawkinsunrated.com/" title="John Hawkins Unrated">John Hawkins</a>:</strong> Hi, this is John Hawkins from johnhawkinsunrated.com. WordPress. WordPress changed my life how. Let&#8217;s see. I&#8217;d say I&#8217;ve met some amazing people through WordPress. I Twitter and I answer people&#8217;s questions, and you would be amazed at the amount of people who are just dying to connect with you through WordPress. Go WordPress!<br />
Hey, come to WordCamp Las Vegas on the January 10-11, 2009. See you there!</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.aceinternetmarketing.com/" title="Ace Internet Marketing">Stace Baris</a>:</strong><br />
My name is Stace Baris with aceinternetmarketing.com. And WordPress has changed my life because it is open source, lots of great Plugins for doing SEO getting my content out there, lots of widgets I can use and also made affiliate marketing really easy with great Amazon Plugins and all sorts of things. If you are serious about blogging, WordPress is the way to go and Lorelle is the person to get your info from. She&#8217;s great.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.sparkplugging.com/marketing/" title="Susan Patton the Marketing Eggspert">Susan Patton</a>:</strong> Hi, I&#8217;m Susan Patton the Marketing Eggspert from Sparkplugging.com/marketing. How WordPress has changed my life? Besides getting me interviewed in the bathroom at Blog World Expo, the height of  experiences, it makes it really easy. I have some tech experience but I love the creative side. So I don&#8217;t want to deal with the hard stuff. WordPress makes it easy to do what I want to do. There are Widgets for everything. There are template for everything. It&#8217;s easy. And I can worry about everything else and not my blog.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/" title="Kim Woodbridge">Kim Woodbridge</a>:</strong> WordPress has changed my life by giving me confidence in my abilities and helping me earn money. I&#8217;ve found that I love<br />
working on it. Plus, I&#8217;ve met so many interesting and talented people online.</p>
<p>This sounded so much better in my head but it didn&#8217;t come out quite right <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" />  Well, I hope it gives you the idea. Thanks! Kim Woodbridge kimwoodbridge.com [Via email]</p>
<p><strong>Naked Bones:</strong> I would say WordPress has changed my life, and it has made it easier. It gave me the room to empty my mind of the everyday stuff we all go through. [Via blog comment]</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.sparkplugging.com/" title="SparkPlugging">Wendy Piersall</a>:</strong> Hi, I&#8217;m Wendy Piersall. I&#8217;m CEO of the SparkPlugging.com. Looking back I was remembering when I first started my brand. I kicked it off with WordPress. WordPress made it absolutely easy for me with little-to-know tech experience whatsoever to create a powerful brand that is now rocking the blogosphere. I tell everybody now to just start with WordPress. It&#8217;s brain dead easy and it&#8217;s extremely just brilliant and I don&#8217;t know how we could function with out it. We owe a lot to you WordPress. We love you.</p>
<p><strong>Owen Cutajar:</strong> [from Twitter] WP means I can build a great new website, secure and loaded with functionality, all b4 breakfast. Good Luck at #wordcampdx.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.heather-rasley.com/" title="heather rasley">Heather Rasley</a>:</strong> Hi, my name is Heather Rasley, the deputy at Automattic. I made the switch to WordPress after discovering that all my favorite awesome bloggers use it. I&#8217;m very happy to be working for Automattic and making other people happy, too. </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" title="jane for short">Jane Wells</a>:</strong> Hi, I&#8217;m Jane Wells and I&#8217;m the user experience person with Automattic. WordPress has changed my life by exposing me to a kick ass community of open source developers and allowing me to work with the best guys in the world.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.contentrobot.com/" title="Content Robot">Karen Jackie and Dana Rockel</a>:</strong> I&#8217;m Karen Jackie partner of Content Robot and Dana Rockel from Content Robot. WordPress has changed our lives because it has actually given us an entrepreneurial spirit and we produce WordPress blogs for clients all over the world. WordPress is a great platform. We started out as a blogging company and moved to WordPress and we don&#8217;t do any other platforms right now. WordPress is it.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.mollermarketing.com/" title="Nate Moller of Moller Marketing">Nathan Moller</a>:</strong> My name is Nate Moeller from MollerMarketing.com. Without WordPress I don&#8217;t know where I would be in the blogging community. What else is there. Blogging is WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fairyblogmother-close.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fairyblogmother-close.jpg?w=300" alt="" title="WordPress Fairy Blogmother (Lorelle VanFossen) on the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon" width="300" height="223" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3081" /></a><strong>Fairy Blogmother:</strong> <em>Oh, no. Not again.<br />
They must be redesigning the interface. Sigh.<br />
Can&#8217;t they leave anything alone. They keep messing with things.<br />
It was just fine the way it was. Why do they have to keep changing things?<br />
ARGH!</em></p>
<p>At WordCamp Portland, I surprised the audience from behind, wearing my WordPress Fairy Blogmother outfit. I spoke about the points mentioned at the beginning of this article, and asked the audience to come forward with their &#8220;testimonies&#8221; on how WordPress changed their lives. I was stunned at the number of people wanting to share their stories, nearly bringing the audience, and myself, to tears. </p>
<p>You can see the video of part of the <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/744252" title="Dale Chumbley - WordCamp Portland - Lorelle VanFossen as the WordPress Fairy Blogmother">presentation by Dale Chumbley streamed live</a> from Cubespace in Portland, Oregon.</p>
<p>The end of the program featured <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/glenda-watson-hyatt-how-wordpress-changes-her-life-daily/" title="How WordPress Changes Her Life Daily">Glenda Watson Hyatt: How WordPress Changes Her Life Daily</a>, a video on how this woman uses WordPress to blog only with her left thumb. Because WordPress continues to be the most accessible and disabled-user friendly blogging platform around, she has opened up her sphere of influence and network of relationships around the world as her blog allows her to &#8220;speak out&#8221; when her body won&#8217;t. </p>
<p>As we design and develop WordPress Themes, Plugins, and code, the WordPress Community needs to remember that Glenda is an important representative of our users.</p>
<p>Thank you again to everyone who helped me put this together, everyone whose lives have been touched my WordPress, and everyone who has helped changed my life with WordPress.</p>
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<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fairyblogmother-sm.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fairyblogmother-sm.jpg?w=156" alt="" title="The WordPress Fairy Blogmother in Portland, Oregon, at WordCamp Portland in her pajamas" width="156" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3073" /></a>I didn&#8217;t realize that the WordPress Community would give me the answers I needed to that question. Their inspirational answers led to the following video on how WordPress changes lives, and the creation of the WordPress Fairy Blogmother.</p>
<p>WordPress changes lives because of the community. Over and over again, people told me that WordPress changes their lives because of the people it brings into their lives. While it doesn&#8217;t really matter what blogging platform you may use, it&#8217;s the community that supports and encourages fellow WordPress users that makes the difference. Without the <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/support" title="WordPress Support Forums" rel="tag">WordPress Support Forums</a>, the incredible free WordPress Themes created by imaginative and altruistic fans, the powerful WordPress Plugins created and shared by those who saw a challenge and found a solution, and the support and willingness of WordPress users to educate others on how to use the program and make it work better - there would be no community.</p>
<p>WordPress has inspired many to learn about coding, design, web development, marketing, but also how to be a part of a community. WordPress fans are the definition of the social web. With the passion that comes with learning and sharing WordPress tips, tricks, and techniques, they&#8217;ve founded a grassroots community, which led to WordPress meetups and social gatherings, and now to WordCamps around the world. </p>
<p><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/lizstrauss_glenda_lorelle_bwe.jpg" alt="" title="Liz Strauss, Glenda Watson Hyatt, and Lorelle VanFossen at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas 2008" width="418" height="397" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3074" />When I attend the many business and professional conferences to speak and present programs, it&#8217;s fairly serious. I&#8217;m there for business. They are there for business. It&#8217;s serious stuff.</p>
<p>When I walk through the door of a WordCamp event, I&#8217;ve found family. We&#8217;re instantly friends. We all know each other, and if we don&#8217;t, we will within a few moments. We&#8217;re risk takers and yet communal spirits, sharing the risk together. When one person pushes WordPress, we all benefit from the results. </p>
<p>As I interviewed people and asked the WordPress Community for help in discovering how WordPress changes lives, I knew I had to put faces on the many people who&#8217;ve had their lives transformed by their involvement in WordPress. In the first half of the video, I honor those whom I&#8217;ve known for several years since early in the development of WordPress, as well as a few new friends. Many of these people have gone from interested enthusiasts to friends of WordPress to employees of <a href="http://www.automattic.com/" title="Automattic - parent company of WordPress, WordPress.com, Akismet, BuddyPress, and more" rel="tag">Automattic</a>, the parent company of WordPress. By using WordPress and being involved in the community, they&#8217;ve built their businesses and reputation as WordPress experts, and in turn, powerful forces on the web.<br />
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Sure, any blogging platform can do that, but there is something about Matt Mullenweg and his vision for WordPress and blogging in general that brings people together to achieve more than they could alone. This is what changes people&#8217;s lives. Together, we&#8217;re stronger with WordPress than without.</p>
<p>Enjoy all the inspirational reasons WordPress fans offered for how and why WordPress changed their lives. And don&#8217;t forget to check out <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/glenda-watson-hyatt-how-wordpress-changes-her-life-daily/" title="How WordPress Changes Her Life Daily">Glenda Watson Hyatt: How WordPress Changes Her Life Daily</a>, the video made especially for the finale of my presentation.</p>
<h4>Video of How WordPress Changes Lives</h4>
<p>There are two versions of the video. The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9HN81XSNYU" title="YouTube version of How WordPress Changes Lives">YouTube version</a> is low resolution and a smaller file size. The <a href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/Lorelle/videos/1/" title="Viddler version of How WordPress Changes Lives">Viddler version</a> is higher resolution and 138.5 meg file size. The video is ten minutes long. The transcription of the video is below.</p>
<p><strong>YouTube Version of How WordPress Changes Lives by Lorelle VanFossen</strong></p>
<p><span><a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/wordcamp-portland-how-wordpress-changes-lives/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/J9HN81XSNYU/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p><strong>Viddler Version of How WordPress Changes Lives by Lorelle VanFossen</strong></p>
<p></p>
<h4>Transcription of How WordPress Changes Lives</h4>
<p>I haven&#8217;t found an easy way to add subtitles or captions to this Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platinum v9 program. Any help would be appreciated. Until then, this is the transcript of the video.</p>
<p><strong>Fairy Blogmother:</strong> <em>Hey, is this thing on. Hey. Is this on?<br />
Is it working? It&#8217;s not working.<br />
Bang! Bang! Hello, are you working.<br />
Ah, there we go.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>* Instrumental Music &#8220;When you wish upon a star&#8221; from Pinocchio *</em></strong></p>
<p>&#8220;When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are.<br />
Anything your heart desires will come to you.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If your heart is in your dream, no request is too extreme.<br />
&#8220;When you wish upon a star, as dreamers do.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Fate is kind. She brings to those who love<br />
The sweet fulfillment of their secret longing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Like a bolt out of the blue, fate steps in and sees you through.<br />
&#8220;When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.&#8221;<br />
<em><strong><br />
Featured WordPress Community Members:</strong></em></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ma.tt/" title="Matt Mullenweg">Matt Mullenweg</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.wordcampportland.org/" title="WordCamp Portland">WordCamp Portland Attendees</a></li>
<li><a href="http://barry.wordpress.com/" title="Barry on WordPress">Barry Abrahamson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.bobulate.com/" title="Bobulate">Liz Danzico</a></li>
<li><a href="http://andy.wordpress.com/" title="Andy Skelton">Andy Skelton</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.dvorak.org/" title="General interest observations and true web-log.">John Dvorak</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.problogger.net" title="Problogger" rel="tag">Darren Rowse</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ocaoimh.ie/" title="Holy Shmoly!">Donncha O&#8217;Caoimh</a></li>
<li><a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/" title="Lolcats and funny pictures">Ben Huh</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.successful-blog.com/" title="Liz Strauss - Successful and Outstanding Bloggers" rel="tag">Liz Strauss</a></li>
<li><a href="http://teensintech.com/" title="Teens in Tech">Daniel Brusilovsky</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.weblogtoolscollection.com/" title="Weblog Tools Collection" rel="tag">Mark Ghosh</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blogwaffe.com/" title="blogwaffe">Michael D. Adams</a></li>
<li><a href="http://onemansblog.com/2008/08/25/chuck-lewis-the-seo-rapper-at-wordcamp-sanfrancisco/" title="Chuck Lewis - The SEO Rapper at WordCamp SanFrancisco - One Mans Blog">Chuck Lewis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://tantek.com/" title="Tantek's Thoughts">Tantek Çelik</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordcamp.info/" title="The WordCamp Report">Patrick Havens</a></li>
<li>Trisha Miller</li>
<li><a href="http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/" title="Mark on WordPress">Mark Jaquith</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/" title="Plagiarism Today">Jonathan and Crystal Bailey</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.jeffro2pt0.com/" title="Jeffro2pt0">Jeff Chandler</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sparkplugging.com/" title="SparkPlugging">Wendy Piersall</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.nathanrice.net/" title="Nathan Rice">Nathan Rice</a></li>
<li><a href="http://technosailor.com/" title="Technology, Business and New Media">Aaron Brazell</a></li>
<li><a href="http://alexfrison.com/notaniche/" title="Not a Niche">Alex Frison</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" title="jane for short">Jane Wells</a></li>
</ul>
<p><em>*Music*</em></p>
<p><em>*Static*</em></p>
<div id="attachment_3079" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/wordcampportlandinstreetsm.jpg" alt="WordCamp Portland 2008, taking over the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, with the Fairy Blogmother" title="WordCamp Portland 2008, taking over the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, with the Fairy Blogmother" width="728" height="363" class="size-full wp-image-3079" /><p class="wp-caption-text">WordCamp Portland 2008, taking over the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon, with the Fairy Blogmother</p></div>
<p><strong>Fairy Blogmother:</strong> <em>Hello! Is this working?<br />
It&#8217;s stop working again, dang it.<br />
What&#8217;s going on here? Okay, wait, wait.<br />
Bang! Bang! Ah, there.</em></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.wiredPRworks.com/" title="WiredPRWorks">Barbara Rozgonyi</a>:</strong> Hello, my name is Barbara Rozgonyi with wiredPRworks.com, and Lorelle, thank you for interviewing me in the bathroom. How has WordPress changed my life? I can&#8217;t tell you everything in 15 seconds but I can tell you that it&#8217;s really made me into the person I&#8217;ve always wanted to be. Now, I can be an author, I can be a person who really influences lives. And boy, it&#8217;s so interesting to see what readers have to say. To see them take just a little piece of information and take it and make it huge that will help so many people. And I get to hang out with cool people like Lorelle in the ladies&#8217; room.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.johnhawkinsunrated.com/" title="John Hawkins Unrated">John Hawkins</a>:</strong> Hi, this is John Hawkins from johnhawkinsunrated.com. WordPress. WordPress changed my life how. Let&#8217;s see. I&#8217;d say I&#8217;ve met some amazing people through WordPress. I Twitter and I answer people&#8217;s questions, and you would be amazed at the amount of people who are just dying to connect with you through WordPress. Go WordPress!<br />
Hey, come to WordCamp Las Vegas on the January 10-11, 2009. See you there!</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.aceinternetmarketing.com/" title="Ace Internet Marketing">Stace Baris</a>:</strong><br />
My name is Stace Baris with aceinternetmarketing.com. And WordPress has changed my life because it is open source, lots of great Plugins for doing SEO getting my content out there, lots of widgets I can use and also made affiliate marketing really easy with great Amazon Plugins and all sorts of things. If you are serious about blogging, WordPress is the way to go and Lorelle is the person to get your info from. She&#8217;s great.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.sparkplugging.com/marketing/" title="Susan Patton the Marketing Eggspert">Susan Patton</a>:</strong> Hi, I&#8217;m Susan Patton the Marketing Eggspert from Sparkplugging.com/marketing. How WordPress has changed my life? Besides getting me interviewed in the bathroom at Blog World Expo, the height of  experiences, it makes it really easy. I have some tech experience but I love the creative side. So I don&#8217;t want to deal with the hard stuff. WordPress makes it easy to do what I want to do. There are Widgets for everything. There are template for everything. It&#8217;s easy. And I can worry about everything else and not my blog.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/" title="Kim Woodbridge">Kim Woodbridge</a>:</strong> WordPress has changed my life by giving me confidence in my abilities and helping me earn money. I&#8217;ve found that I love<br />
working on it. Plus, I&#8217;ve met so many interesting and talented people online.</p>
<p>This sounded so much better in my head but it didn&#8217;t come out quite right <img src="http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" />  Well, I hope it gives you the idea. Thanks! Kim Woodbridge kimwoodbridge.com [Via email]</p>
<p><strong>Naked Bones:</strong> I would say WordPress has changed my life, and it has made it easier. It gave me the room to empty my mind of the everyday stuff we all go through. [Via blog comment]</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.sparkplugging.com/" title="SparkPlugging">Wendy Piersall</a>:</strong> Hi, I&#8217;m Wendy Piersall. I&#8217;m CEO of the SparkPlugging.com. Looking back I was remembering when I first started my brand. I kicked it off with WordPress. WordPress made it absolutely easy for me with little-to-know tech experience whatsoever to create a powerful brand that is now rocking the blogosphere. I tell everybody now to just start with WordPress. It&#8217;s brain dead easy and it&#8217;s extremely just brilliant and I don&#8217;t know how we could function with out it. We owe a lot to you WordPress. We love you.</p>
<p><strong>Owen Cutajar:</strong> [from Twitter] WP means I can build a great new website, secure and loaded with functionality, all b4 breakfast. Good Luck at #wordcampdx.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.heather-rasley.com/" title="heather rasley">Heather Rasley</a>:</strong> Hi, my name is Heather Rasley, the deputy at Automattic. I made the switch to WordPress after discovering that all my favorite awesome bloggers use it. I&#8217;m very happy to be working for Automattic and making other people happy, too. </p>
<p><strong><a href="http://jane.wordpress.com/" title="jane for short">Jane Wells</a>:</strong> Hi, I&#8217;m Jane Wells and I&#8217;m the user experience person with Automattic. WordPress has changed my life by exposing me to a kick ass community of open source developers and allowing me to work with the best guys in the world.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.contentrobot.com/" title="Content Robot">Karen Jackie and Dana Rockel</a>:</strong> I&#8217;m Karen Jackie partner of Content Robot and Dana Rockel from Content Robot. WordPress has changed our lives because it has actually given us an entrepreneurial spirit and we produce WordPress blogs for clients all over the world. WordPress is a great platform. We started out as a blogging company and moved to WordPress and we don&#8217;t do any other platforms right now. WordPress is it.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.mollermarketing.com/" title="Nate Moller of Moller Marketing">Nathan Moller</a>:</strong> My name is Nate Moeller from MollerMarketing.com. Without WordPress I don&#8217;t know where I would be in the blogging community. What else is there. Blogging is WordPress.</p>
<p><a href="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fairyblogmother-close.jpg"><img src="http://lorelle.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fairyblogmother-close.jpg?w=300" alt="" title="WordPress Fairy Blogmother (Lorelle VanFossen) on the streets of downtown Portland, Oregon" width="300" height="223" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3081" /></a><strong>Fairy Blogmother:</strong> <em>Oh, no. Not again.<br />
They must be redesigning the interface. Sigh.<br />
Can&#8217;t they leave anything alone. They keep messing with things.<br />
It was just fine the way it was. Why do they have to keep changing things?<br />
ARGH!</em></p>
<p>At WordCamp Portland, I surprised the audience from behind, wearing my WordPress Fairy Blogmother outfit. I spoke about the points mentioned at the beginning of this article, and asked the audience to come forward with their &#8220;testimonies&#8221; on how WordPress changed their lives. I was stunned at the number of people wanting to share their stories, nearly bringing the audience, and myself, to tears. </p>
<p>You can see the video of part of the <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/744252" title="Dale Chumbley - WordCamp Portland - Lorelle VanFossen as the WordPress Fairy Blogmother">presentation by Dale Chumbley streamed live</a> from Cubespace in Portland, Oregon.</p>
<p>The end of the program featured <a href="http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/glenda-watson-hyatt-how-wordpress-changes-her-life-daily/" title="How WordPress Changes Her Life Daily">Glenda Watson Hyatt: How WordPress Changes Her Life Daily</a>, a video on how this woman uses WordPress to blog only with her left thumb. Because WordPress continues to be the most accessible and disabled-user friendly blogging platform around, she has opened up her sphere of influence and network of relationships around the world as her blog allows her to &#8220;speak out&#8221; when her body won&#8217;t. </p>
<p>As we design and develop WordPress Themes, Plugins, and code, the WordPress Community needs to remember that Glenda is an important representative of our users.</p>
<p>Thank you again to everyone who helped me put this together, everyone whose lives have been touched my WordPress, and everyone who has helped changed my life with WordPress.</p>
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<p><strong>1. First off, could you please explain what Child themes are in the simplest way possible?</strong></p>
<p>A Child Theme is a WordPress theme that installs and activates just like any other WordPress theme—with 2 crucial differences. Firstly, it requires no PHP template files of it&#8217;s own to work. That&#8217;s because it uses the template files of a defined Parent Theme. The Parent Theme must be installed—but not activated—in your blog&#8217;s themes directory for the Child Theme to work.</p>
<p>Secondly, as of WordPress 2.7, template files located in your Child Theme folder will be used instead of the template file in your Parent Theme folder. Don&#8217;t like how the header is coded up for a particular theme you want to edit? Copy the header.php file from your Parent theme into your Child Theme folder and make the change there. WordPress, as of 2.7, will look for header.php (or any possible template file) in the Child Theme first and use the Child Theme template file instead. This new feature in WordPress 2.7 makes custom theming really exciting and even easier.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really very simple to make your own Child Theme. So simple, I can tell you and your readers how to do it right here in four ridiculously easy steps. It&#8217;ll help you get your head around using a Child Theme if you follow along (<em>with a test blog</em>—this&#8217;ll be easy but our test theme isn&#8217;t going to be pretty).</p>
<p>1. Make a folder in your blog themes directory called &#8220;achildthemetest&#8221;.</p>
<p>2. Create a &#8220;style.css&#8221; file in that folder with the following code copy-pasted into that &#8220;style.css&#8221; file.</p>
<pre>/*
Theme Name: A Child Theme Test
Theme URI:
Description: Trying out a Child Theme with the classic theme
Author:
Author URI:
Template: classic
Version:
*/

/*
For the sake of simplicity we're going to import
the classic stylesheet and override the styles.
You don't have to do this though. You can just
start fresh with new CSS or copy over large chunks of
the original styles and edit them here.
*/
@import url(../classic/style.css);

/*
Now, for a demonstration, let's make all the anchors red.
*/
a {
color:red;
}</pre>
<p>3. Refresh your blog&#8217;s theme directory in the WordPress admin. You should see a theme called &#8220;A Child Theme Test&#8221;. It&#8217;s using the classic theme as a Parent Theme. If you look at the code  above you should see a line that starts with &#8220;Template&#8221; it&#8217;s there that we defined that Parent Theme as &#8220;classic&#8221;, the folder name of our Parent Theme (which could be any installed theme).</p>
<p>4. Activate your new Child Theme and check out your blog. Are all the links in the main content area red? Congratulations. You just made a WordPress Child Theme. You can now edit your WordPress theme of choice—in this instance, the Classic theme—through CSS alone without having to modify any of the original template files. (If you&#8217;re a more advanced WordPress developer you can also include a functions.php file in your Child Theme that lets you interact with WordPress and your themes just like a plugin. But that&#8217;s another story altogether.)</p>
<p><strong> 2. What are some of the benefits that child themes offer versus stand alone themes?</strong></p>
<p>There&#8217;s 2 main benefits for the end user when it comes to using a Child Theme versus editing a theme directly: Simplicity and Upgrade-readiness. To explain, I&#8217;ll tell you why I use a Child Theme of my own theme, <a title="http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/" href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/" target="_blank">Thematic</a>,<a href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/" target="_blank"></a> on ThemeShaper.com. That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m not even editing my own theme directly on my own WordPress Theme blog.</p>
<p>Firstly, it really is just simpler. I currently have only 2 files in my Child Theme folder: style.css and functions.php. Everything else is coming from the same Thematic template files anyone can download and use. When I want to change the look of my theme, I do it in style.css. If I want to get really serious with theme changes, like, plugin-serious, I write some simple code in functions.php. I don&#8217;t think about my Parent Theme and, excepting the XHTML it eventually outputs and displays in my browser, I don&#8217;t even look at it. Except! Except when it comes time to upgrade.</p>
<p>When I need to upgrade Thematic, my Parent Theme, I can do so without worries. That&#8217;s because I haven&#8217;t touched the original template files. I haven&#8217;t edited the header. I haven&#8217;t edited the footer. I haven&#8217;t edited single.php. Or index.php. All my theme edits have been made in the stylesheet and functions file of my Child Theme.</p>
<p>Look at it this way: I have another blog I manage with a really fresh and distinctive design that I get compliments on all the time. Unfortunately, I made that design by hacking up and heavily modifying The Sandbox <em>version 0.6</em>. If I wanted to upgrade to a newer version of The Sandbox I&#8217;d have to recreate that design. That means I&#8217;d have to pull the theme apart, find all my changes, and reintegrate it with a newer version of the theme. If I&#8217;d made the modifications in a Child Theme upgrading would mean uploading a newer version of The Sandbox and, well, that&#8217;s it really. How long does it take to upload a theme? 10 seconds? When you&#8217;re using a Child Theme, upgrading turns from a day long affair into a 10 second chore that can be done while you&#8217;re reading weblogtoolscollection.com.</p>
<p><strong> 3. Based on what I&#8217;ve seen, the child theme trend is really starting to gain traction thanks in large part to you and other theme designers. How long has the ability to develop child themes been available for WordPress? If it&#8217;s been available to develop for some time now, why is it that we are only now starting to see heavy development in this area?</strong></p>
<p>As far as I can tell, Child Themes have been available since version 2.1. But I first heard about Child Themes when I entered the Sandbox Designs Competition (<a href="http://sndbx.org/" target="_blank">http://sndbx.org/</a>). Every entry there is a Child Theme that defines The Sandbox as it&#8217;s Parent Theme and modifies the theme with CSS alone. Consequently, I think a lot of the credit for popularizing Child Themes needs to go to Scott Wallick (<a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/" target="_blank">http://www.plaintxt.org/</a>), co-creator of The Sandbox and organizer of the Sandbox Designs Competition.</p>
<p>But that brings us to why I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s been much talk about Child Themes: I think there&#8217;s sort of a lack of faith amongst theme authors and users when it comes to what you can actually do with CSS. WordPress developer and theme author Ben Eastaugh thinks that &#8220;one reason it hasn&#8217;t been more widely publicized is that [modifying Parent Themes with CSS] wasn&#8217;t, as it stood, terribly useful&#8221; (<a href="http://extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance/" target="_blank">http://extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance/</a>). I&#8217;d disagree with that in principle but that sort of sums up the feeling of theme authors that have been ignoring this feature.</p>
<p>And, by the way, if you don&#8217;t think Child Themes can really do anything with CSS alone make sure you check out the winning entries in The Sandbox Designs competition (<a href="http://sndbx.org/results/" target="_blank">http://sndbx.org/results/</a>) or the oft-mentioned and linked to CSS Zen Garden (<a href="http://www.csszengarden.com/" target="_blank">http://www.csszengarden.com/</a>).</p>
<p>But regardless of what you think you can do with CSS alone, now that WordPress 2.7 let&#8217;s you overwrite Parent template files from your Child Theme I expect we&#8217;ll be seeing more and more people using them.</p>
<p>Plus, there&#8217;s a few other WordPress developments in the works that&#8217;ll likely further popularize this method of theme modifying. Namely, the WordPress.com Themes Marketplace and allowing GPL Child Themes to be released through the WordPress Theme Directory.</p>
<p><strong>4. Before we move on, could you explain what a theme framework is? Perhaps providing a few examples for the readers.</strong></p>
<p>In my mind, a Theme Framework would be a theme that, at the very least, was made with clear intentions of being used to develop further themes. A starting point theme if you will.  I think a <em>good</em> Theme Framework also shows consideration of, or planning for, what can be done with Child Themes, now and in WordPress 2.7+. And that&#8217;s because, really, you shouldn&#8217;t be touching a framework if you can help it.</p>
<p>Think of WordPress as a framework where the contents of the database are output in a controlled fashion by your theme. We don&#8217;t go in and tinker with the WordPress core in order to make our themes work better (well, some people do but that&#8217;s another story again). The same thing with a theme framework. We can modify the theme framework with our Child Themes and leave the framework pristine for easy, safe upgrades.</p>
<p><strong>This concludes part 1 of the interview. Stay tuned for Part 2 which will be arriving shortly.</strong></p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:00:36 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:9955:"<p>Child themes are a trend which appears to be gaining traction everywhere you look. Theme authors such as Ian Stewart, Justin Tadlock and Darren Hoyt are just a few of the influential people pushing this concept. In order to try and grasp an understanding of child themes, I interviewed Ian Stewart of <a href="http://themeshaper.com/" target="_blank">Themeshaper.com</a>. His responses were so long, this interview will end up being published in two parts. Here is part 1.</p>
<p><strong>1. First off, could you please explain what Child themes are in the simplest way possible?</strong></p>
<p>A Child Theme is a WordPress theme that installs and activates just like any other WordPress theme—with 2 crucial differences. Firstly, it requires no PHP template files of it&#8217;s own to work. That&#8217;s because it uses the template files of a defined Parent Theme. The Parent Theme must be installed—but not activated—in your blog&#8217;s themes directory for the Child Theme to work.</p>
<p>Secondly, as of WordPress 2.7, template files located in your Child Theme folder will be used instead of the template file in your Parent Theme folder. Don&#8217;t like how the header is coded up for a particular theme you want to edit? Copy the header.php file from your Parent theme into your Child Theme folder and make the change there. WordPress, as of 2.7, will look for header.php (or any possible template file) in the Child Theme first and use the Child Theme template file instead. This new feature in WordPress 2.7 makes custom theming really exciting and even easier.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really very simple to make your own Child Theme. So simple, I can tell you and your readers how to do it right here in four ridiculously easy steps. It&#8217;ll help you get your head around using a Child Theme if you follow along (<em>with a test blog</em>—this&#8217;ll be easy but our test theme isn&#8217;t going to be pretty).</p>
<p>1. Make a folder in your blog themes directory called &#8220;achildthemetest&#8221;.</p>
<p>2. Create a &#8220;style.css&#8221; file in that folder with the following code copy-pasted into that &#8220;style.css&#8221; file.</p>
<pre>/*
Theme Name: A Child Theme Test
Theme URI:
Description: Trying out a Child Theme with the classic theme
Author:
Author URI:
Template: classic
Version:
*/

/*
For the sake of simplicity we're going to import
the classic stylesheet and override the styles.
You don't have to do this though. You can just
start fresh with new CSS or copy over large chunks of
the original styles and edit them here.
*/
@import url(../classic/style.css);

/*
Now, for a demonstration, let's make all the anchors red.
*/
a {
color:red;
}</pre>
<p>3. Refresh your blog&#8217;s theme directory in the WordPress admin. You should see a theme called &#8220;A Child Theme Test&#8221;. It&#8217;s using the classic theme as a Parent Theme. If you look at the code  above you should see a line that starts with &#8220;Template&#8221; it&#8217;s there that we defined that Parent Theme as &#8220;classic&#8221;, the folder name of our Parent Theme (which could be any installed theme).</p>
<p>4. Activate your new Child Theme and check out your blog. Are all the links in the main content area red? Congratulations. You just made a WordPress Child Theme. You can now edit your WordPress theme of choice—in this instance, the Classic theme—through CSS alone without having to modify any of the original template files. (If you&#8217;re a more advanced WordPress developer you can also include a functions.php file in your Child Theme that lets you interact with WordPress and your themes just like a plugin. But that&#8217;s another story altogether.)</p>
<p><strong> 2. What are some of the benefits that child themes offer versus stand alone themes?</strong></p>
<p>There&#8217;s 2 main benefits for the end user when it comes to using a Child Theme versus editing a theme directly: Simplicity and Upgrade-readiness. To explain, I&#8217;ll tell you why I use a Child Theme of my own theme, <a title="http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/" href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/" target="_blank">Thematic</a>,<a href="http://themeshaper.com/thematic-for-wordpress/" target="_blank"></a> on ThemeShaper.com. That&#8217;s right, I&#8217;m not even editing my own theme directly on my own WordPress Theme blog.</p>
<p>Firstly, it really is just simpler. I currently have only 2 files in my Child Theme folder: style.css and functions.php. Everything else is coming from the same Thematic template files anyone can download and use. When I want to change the look of my theme, I do it in style.css. If I want to get really serious with theme changes, like, plugin-serious, I write some simple code in functions.php. I don&#8217;t think about my Parent Theme and, excepting the XHTML it eventually outputs and displays in my browser, I don&#8217;t even look at it. Except! Except when it comes time to upgrade.</p>
<p>When I need to upgrade Thematic, my Parent Theme, I can do so without worries. That&#8217;s because I haven&#8217;t touched the original template files. I haven&#8217;t edited the header. I haven&#8217;t edited the footer. I haven&#8217;t edited single.php. Or index.php. All my theme edits have been made in the stylesheet and functions file of my Child Theme.</p>
<p>Look at it this way: I have another blog I manage with a really fresh and distinctive design that I get compliments on all the time. Unfortunately, I made that design by hacking up and heavily modifying The Sandbox <em>version 0.6</em>. If I wanted to upgrade to a newer version of The Sandbox I&#8217;d have to recreate that design. That means I&#8217;d have to pull the theme apart, find all my changes, and reintegrate it with a newer version of the theme. If I&#8217;d made the modifications in a Child Theme upgrading would mean uploading a newer version of The Sandbox and, well, that&#8217;s it really. How long does it take to upload a theme? 10 seconds? When you&#8217;re using a Child Theme, upgrading turns from a day long affair into a 10 second chore that can be done while you&#8217;re reading weblogtoolscollection.com.</p>
<p><strong> 3. Based on what I&#8217;ve seen, the child theme trend is really starting to gain traction thanks in large part to you and other theme designers. How long has the ability to develop child themes been available for WordPress? If it&#8217;s been available to develop for some time now, why is it that we are only now starting to see heavy development in this area?</strong></p>
<p>As far as I can tell, Child Themes have been available since version 2.1. But I first heard about Child Themes when I entered the Sandbox Designs Competition (<a href="http://sndbx.org/" target="_blank">http://sndbx.org/</a>). Every entry there is a Child Theme that defines The Sandbox as it&#8217;s Parent Theme and modifies the theme with CSS alone. Consequently, I think a lot of the credit for popularizing Child Themes needs to go to Scott Wallick (<a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/" target="_blank">http://www.plaintxt.org/</a>), co-creator of The Sandbox and organizer of the Sandbox Designs Competition.</p>
<p>But that brings us to why I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s been much talk about Child Themes: I think there&#8217;s sort of a lack of faith amongst theme authors and users when it comes to what you can actually do with CSS. WordPress developer and theme author Ben Eastaugh thinks that &#8220;one reason it hasn&#8217;t been more widely publicized is that [modifying Parent Themes with CSS] wasn&#8217;t, as it stood, terribly useful&#8221; (<a href="http://extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance/" target="_blank">http://extralogical.net/2008/08/theme-inheritance/</a>). I&#8217;d disagree with that in principle but that sort of sums up the feeling of theme authors that have been ignoring this feature.</p>
<p>And, by the way, if you don&#8217;t think Child Themes can really do anything with CSS alone make sure you check out the winning entries in The Sandbox Designs competition (<a href="http://sndbx.org/results/" target="_blank">http://sndbx.org/results/</a>) or the oft-mentioned and linked to CSS Zen Garden (<a href="http://www.csszengarden.com/" target="_blank">http://www.csszengarden.com/</a>).</p>
<p>But regardless of what you think you can do with CSS alone, now that WordPress 2.7 let&#8217;s you overwrite Parent template files from your Child Theme I expect we&#8217;ll be seeing more and more people using them.</p>
<p>Plus, there&#8217;s a few other WordPress developments in the works that&#8217;ll likely further popularize this method of theme modifying. Namely, the WordPress.com Themes Marketplace and allowing GPL Child Themes to be released through the WordPress Theme Directory.</p>
<p><strong>4. Before we move on, could you explain what a theme framework is? Perhaps providing a few examples for the readers.</strong></p>
<p>In my mind, a Theme Framework would be a theme that, at the very least, was made with clear intentions of being used to develop further themes. A starting point theme if you will.  I think a <em>good</em> Theme Framework also shows consideration of, or planning for, what can be done with Child Themes, now and in WordPress 2.7+. And that&#8217;s because, really, you shouldn&#8217;t be touching a framework if you can help it.</p>
<p>Think of WordPress as a framework where the contents of the database are output in a controlled fashion by your theme. We don&#8217;t go in and tinker with the WordPress core in order to make our themes work better (well, some people do but that&#8217;s another story again). The same thing with a theme framework. We can modify the theme framework with our Child Themes and leave the framework pristine for easy, safe upgrades.</p>
<p><strong>This concludes part 1 of the interview. Stay tuned for Part 2 which will be arriving shortly.</strong></p>";}i:45;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:60:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases for 10/04";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4294";s:4:"link";s:88:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/04/wordpress-plugin-releases-for-1004/";s:11:"description";s:2102:"<p><a href="http://businessdirectory.squarecompass.com/"><strong>Business Directory for WordPress</strong></a></p>
<p>Business Directory for Wordpress is an easy way to host a free directory page for your readers, affiliates, advertisers, community or club members. Invite them to submit a simple advertisement listing for themselves on your blog</p>
<h5><a href="http://www.rutschmann.biz/php-mysql-javascript-und-ajax/multibox-wordpress-plugin"><strong>Wordpress Multibox Plugin</strong></a></h5>
<p>This plugin brings the great Multibox from phatfusion to your blog images.</p>
<h5><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recentcomments/"><strong>WP-RecentComments</strong></a></h5>
<p>Display recent comments in your blog sidebar.</p>
<h5><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woopra/"><strong>Woopra Analytics Plugin</strong></a></h5>
<p>This plugin adds Woopra&#8217;s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation. Activate the plugin and configure your site ID in the Woopra settings.</p>
<h5><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/collapsing-categories/"><strong>Collapsing Categories</strong></a></h5>
<p>This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapsable the set of posts for each category.</p>
<h5><a href="http://brimosoft.nl/lazyest/"><strong>Lazyest Gallery</strong></a></h5>
<p>Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation</p>
<p><a href="http://bueltge.de/wordpress-admin-theme-adminimize/674/"><strong>Adminimize</strong></a></p>
<p>Visually compresses the administratrive header so that more admin page content can be initially seen.</p>
<h5><strong><a href="http://www.commentluv.com/download/ajax-commentluv-installation/">CommentLuv</a></strong></h5>
<p>Appends a titled link using AJAX to the authors last blog post on their comment giving back some luv to the people that join your discussion.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/"><strong>HeadSpace2</strong></a></p>
<p>HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:07:22 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:2102:"<p><a href="http://businessdirectory.squarecompass.com/"><strong>Business Directory for WordPress</strong></a></p>
<p>Business Directory for Wordpress is an easy way to host a free directory page for your readers, affiliates, advertisers, community or club members. Invite them to submit a simple advertisement listing for themselves on your blog</p>
<h5><a href="http://www.rutschmann.biz/php-mysql-javascript-und-ajax/multibox-wordpress-plugin"><strong>Wordpress Multibox Plugin</strong></a></h5>
<p>This plugin brings the great Multibox from phatfusion to your blog images.</p>
<h5><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recentcomments/"><strong>WP-RecentComments</strong></a></h5>
<p>Display recent comments in your blog sidebar.</p>
<h5><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/woopra/"><strong>Woopra Analytics Plugin</strong></a></h5>
<p>This plugin adds Woopra&#8217;s real-time analytics to any WordPress installation. Activate the plugin and configure your site ID in the Woopra settings.</p>
<h5><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/collapsing-categories/"><strong>Collapsing Categories</strong></a></h5>
<p>This plugin uses Javascript to dynamically expand or collapsable the set of posts for each category.</p>
<h5><a href="http://brimosoft.nl/lazyest/"><strong>Lazyest Gallery</strong></a></h5>
<p>Lazyest Gallery is an integrated image gallery with automatic thumb and slide creation</p>
<p><a href="http://bueltge.de/wordpress-admin-theme-adminimize/674/"><strong>Adminimize</strong></a></p>
<p>Visually compresses the administratrive header so that more admin page content can be initially seen.</p>
<h5><strong><a href="http://www.commentluv.com/download/ajax-commentluv-installation/">CommentLuv</a></strong></h5>
<p>Appends a titled link using AJAX to the authors last blog post on their comment giving back some luv to the people that join your discussion.</p>
<p><a href="http://urbangiraffe.com/plugins/headspace2/"><strong>HeadSpace2</strong></a></p>
<p>HeadSpace is a powerful all-in-one plugin to manage meta-data and handle a wide range of SEO tasks.</p>";}i:46;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:52:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Weekly Episode 23";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4287";s:4:"link";s:81:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/04/wordpress-weekly-episode-23/";s:11:"description";s:3689:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" /> Episode 23 of WordPress Weekly is now ready for your consumption. In this episode, Keith and I discuss the IntenseDebate acquisition and what that means for both WordPress.com and WordPress.org while also discussing the business aspects of the deal. We also give our thoughts on the developmental version of WordPress 2.7 thus far. We highlight the fact that there has been at least two differen UI surveys available to the public highlighting the increased awareness as well as end user participation into the final product. There is a major difference between the way the UI is being handled in terms of end user feedback between WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.7. Last but not least, Keith and I give you our plugin picks up the week. </p>
<h2>Stories Discussed On The Show:</h2>
<p><b><a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/intense-debate-goes-automattic/" target="_blank">Automattic acquires IntenseDebate</a></b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/02/first-look-at-wordpress-27/" target="_blank">Wordpress 2.7</a> - </b><b>Tentatively Scheduled For Release On November 10th</b></p>
<p><b>WordPress Usability Surveys</b>: / <b><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-27-navigation-options-survey/" target="_blank">Navigation Options</a></b> / <b><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-2-7-survey-no2/" target="_blank">Where To Put That Search Box</a></b>&#160;</p>
<p><b><a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2008/09/29/wordpress-27-comments-enhancements/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.7 Comment Enhancements</a></b> </p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t get the chance to mention this on the show but I wanted to pass along a happy birthday to <a href="http://www.wpcandy.com" target="_blank">WPCandy.com</a> as they have turned 1 year old.</p>
<h2>Plugins Of The Week:</h2>
<p><b>Jeff - </b><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/insights" target="_blank">Insights by Vladimir Prelovac</a></p>
<p><b>Keith - </b><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/progressive-license/" target="_blank">Progressive License v1.0 (Alex King / Crowd Favorite)</a></p>
<h2>Announcements:</h2>
<p> Hallsofmontezuma otherwise known as Michael Torbert will be appearing on the first half hour of <strong>WordPress Weekly episode 24 Friday October 10th, 2008 at 8 P.M. EST</strong>. During this interview, we&#8217;ll be covering what it takes to write plugins for WordPress, what it&#8217;s like to maintain a plugin used by plenty of WordPress users and much more. If you have questions for this plugin author, be sure to show up during the live stream and ask them in the chatroom or, you can ask them here in the comments.</p>
<p>Also, pay attention to the podcast feed as later this week, you&#8217;ll receive a dose of extra content that is not directly related to the podcast.</p>
<p>Thanks to Ryan Mccue, we now have an IRC room setup for the show for those who are technically savvy and who don&#8217;t enjoy the Talkshoe interface. Once I receive the IRC information, I&#8217;ll pass it along.</p>
<h2>WPWeekly Meta:</h2>
<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday October 10th, 2008 8P.M. EST</p>
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<p><strong>Length Of Episode:</strong> 1 Hour 3 Minutes</p>
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<p><strong>Listen To Episode #23:</strong><br />
</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:02:30 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:13:"Jeff Chandler";}s:7:"summary";s:3689:"<p><img src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/newwwpweeklylogo.png" align="right" /> Episode 23 of WordPress Weekly is now ready for your consumption. In this episode, Keith and I discuss the IntenseDebate acquisition and what that means for both WordPress.com and WordPress.org while also discussing the business aspects of the deal. We also give our thoughts on the developmental version of WordPress 2.7 thus far. We highlight the fact that there has been at least two differen UI surveys available to the public highlighting the increased awareness as well as end user participation into the final product. There is a major difference between the way the UI is being handled in terms of end user feedback between WordPress 2.5 and WordPress 2.7. Last but not least, Keith and I give you our plugin picks up the week. </p>
<h2>Stories Discussed On The Show:</h2>
<p><b><a href="http://ma.tt/2008/09/intense-debate-goes-automattic/" target="_blank">Automattic acquires IntenseDebate</a></b></p>
<p><b><a href="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/09/02/first-look-at-wordpress-27/" target="_blank">Wordpress 2.7</a> - </b><b>Tentatively Scheduled For Release On November 10th</b></p>
<p><b>WordPress Usability Surveys</b>: / <b><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-27-navigation-options-survey/" target="_blank">Navigation Options</a></b> / <b><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-2-7-survey-no2/" target="_blank">Where To Put That Search Box</a></b>&#160;</p>
<p><b><a href="http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2008/09/29/wordpress-27-comments-enhancements/" target="_blank">WordPress 2.7 Comment Enhancements</a></b> </p>
<p>Didn&#8217;t get the chance to mention this on the show but I wanted to pass along a happy birthday to <a href="http://www.wpcandy.com" target="_blank">WPCandy.com</a> as they have turned 1 year old.</p>
<h2>Plugins Of The Week:</h2>
<p><b>Jeff - </b><a href="http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/insights" target="_blank">Insights by Vladimir Prelovac</a></p>
<p><b>Keith - </b><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/progressive-license/" target="_blank">Progressive License v1.0 (Alex King / Crowd Favorite)</a></p>
<h2>Announcements:</h2>
<p> Hallsofmontezuma otherwise known as Michael Torbert will be appearing on the first half hour of <strong>WordPress Weekly episode 24 Friday October 10th, 2008 at 8 P.M. EST</strong>. During this interview, we&#8217;ll be covering what it takes to write plugins for WordPress, what it&#8217;s like to maintain a plugin used by plenty of WordPress users and much more. If you have questions for this plugin author, be sure to show up during the live stream and ask them in the chatroom or, you can ask them here in the comments.</p>
<p>Also, pay attention to the podcast feed as later this week, you&#8217;ll receive a dose of extra content that is not directly related to the podcast.</p>
<p>Thanks to Ryan Mccue, we now have an IRC room setup for the show for those who are technically savvy and who don&#8217;t enjoy the Talkshoe interface. Once I receive the IRC information, I&#8217;ll pass it along.</p>
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<p><strong>Next Episode:</strong> Friday October 10th, 2008 8P.M. EST</p>
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<p><strong>Length Of Episode:</strong> 1 Hour 3 Minutes</p>
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<p><strong>Listen To Episode #23:</strong><br />
</p>";}i:47;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:59:"Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Theme Releases for 10/03";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/?p=4285";s:4:"link";s:87:"http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2008/10/03/wordpress-theme-releases-for-1003/";s:11:"description";s:1936:"<p><a href="http://dirtybluemedia.com/portfolio/desk-space-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Desk Space</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://dirtybluemedia.com/themes/deskspace"><img title="wood-bg-dark-150x150" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/woodbgdark150x150.jpg" border="0" alt="wood-bg-dark-150x150" width="114" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Desk Space is a premium free and feature rich WordPress theme. It comes with a robust set of built in features and plugins, including the ability to switch out the background wood finish color to one you like.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.divitodesign.com/2008/10/wordpress-theme-spicy-typography/"><strong>Spicy Typography</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.divitodesign.com/themes-demo/index.php?wptheme=spicy-typography"><img title="spicy-typography-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/spicytypographyscreenshot.jpg" border="0" alt="spicy-typography-screenshot" width="160" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, fast loading theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.onewaylinks.co.uk/under-water-free-wordpress-themes/"><strong>Under Water</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.onewaylinks.co.uk/Free-WP-Themes/index.php?wptheme=under-water"><img title="underwater" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/underwater.png" border="0" alt="underwater" width="155" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, Blue, White, Purple, Grey and Black widget, ready fixed width theme</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/01/simply-ornate-a-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simply Ornate</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://honker.evaneckard.com/"><img title="simplyornate" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/simplyornate.jpg" border="0" alt="simplyornate" width="190" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column theme designed with the main focus being on patterns and typography and comes in 5 flavours.</p>";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:03:20 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Ajay";}s:7:"summary";s:1936:"<p><a href="http://dirtybluemedia.com/portfolio/desk-space-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Desk Space</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://dirtybluemedia.com/themes/deskspace"><img title="wood-bg-dark-150x150" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/woodbgdark150x150.jpg" border="0" alt="wood-bg-dark-150x150" width="114" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Desk Space is a premium free and feature rich WordPress theme. It comes with a robust set of built in features and plugins, including the ability to switch out the background wood finish color to one you like.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.divitodesign.com/2008/10/wordpress-theme-spicy-typography/"><strong>Spicy Typography</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.divitodesign.com/themes-demo/index.php?wptheme=spicy-typography"><img title="spicy-typography-screenshot" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/spicytypographyscreenshot.jpg" border="0" alt="spicy-typography-screenshot" width="160" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, widget ready, fast loading theme.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.onewaylinks.co.uk/under-water-free-wordpress-themes/"><strong>Under Water</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.onewaylinks.co.uk/Free-WP-Themes/index.php?wptheme=under-water"><img title="underwater" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/underwater.png" border="0" alt="underwater" width="155" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column, Blue, White, Purple, Grey and Black widget, ready fixed width theme</p>
<p><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/01/simply-ornate-a-free-wordpress-theme/"><strong>Simply Ornate</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://honker.evaneckard.com/"><img title="simplyornate" src="http://weblogtoolscollection.com/b2-img/2008/10/simplyornate.jpg" border="0" alt="simplyornate" width="190" height="114" /></a></p>
<p>Two column theme designed with the main focus being on patterns and typography and comes in 5 flavours.</p>";}i:48;a:7:{s:5:"title";s:67:"Lorelle on WP: Comcast Now Restricts Bandwidth Data Transfer Levels";s:4:"guid";s:36:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=3069";s:4:"link";s:93:"http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/comcast-now-restricts-bandwidth-data-transfer-levels/";s:11:"description";s:9449:"<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>If you haven&#8217;t reviewed the <a href="http://gigaom.com/2008/09/30/gigaom-white-paper-the-facts-fiction-of-bandwidth-caps/" title="The Facts &amp; Fiction of Bandwidth Caps">GigaOM White Paper: The Facts &amp; Fiction of Bandwidth Caps</a>, do it now. </p>
<p>As of Wednesday this week, Comcast, the largest provider of broadband and DSL for Internet access in the United States is going to be restricting your data transfer levels to 250 gigabytes a month. According to Om Malik:</p>
<blockquote><p>With this move, the cable company will become the symbol of a new Internet era, one that is both monitored and metered. It is an era that threatens to limit innovation and to a large extent, the possibilities for new startups.</p></blockquote>
<p>Many bloggers are part of online businesses and startups as well as suppliers of video, podcasts, and downloadable and uploaded files across the web. As web designs and WordPress Themes become more graphic and code dependent, increasing our bandwidth access levels, these limits impinge upon that grown and that access.</p>
<p>While WordPress Themes, Plugins, and Widgets account for very small levels of data transfer, what about a new WordPress user who wants to download and experiment with a lot of Themes and Plugins? Downloading more than a gig or two of WordPress stuff is rare, but if you add that to their other file downloads, like software, instant messaging, IRC, email, flickr, YouTube, podcasts, music, news, television, VoIP, and all the information and data that enters our world through our computers - those numbers add up fast.</p>
<p>I just moved from a satellite connection with a 17 gig limit. We hit the limit all the time and we weren&#8217;t downloading music or shows. I didn&#8217;t even download podcasts until I went on a trip. There were three of us using the web for our work. Download a few software programs, update your computer&#8217;s operating system, test out some Plugins, and it all adds up fast.</p>
<p>According to the White Paper, &#8220;today&#8217;s power users are tomorrow&#8217;s average users&#8221; with a predication that by 2012 we will be paying about $215 a month for Internet data access. Malik and others are fighting back with words in hopes of changing this &#8220;walled garden&#8221; limitation. I hope you join us in spreading the word.</p>
<h3>The Web Must Be Free</h3>
<p>The timing of this announcement comes the same time as the announcement of the new <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/" title="World Wide Web Foundation" rel="tag">World Wide Web Foundation</a> was <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/donations/knight2008/press-release" title="World Wide Web Foundation announced press release">announced</a>. In the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/news/2008/09/welcome-to-the-world-wide-web-foundation.html" title="Welcome to the World Wide Web Foundation">welcome statement</a>, the founders, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>The World Wide Web Foundation seeks to advance One Web that is free and open, to expand the Web&#8217;s capability and robustness, and to extend the Web&#8217;s benefits to all people on the planet. The Web Foundation brings together business leaders, technology innovators, academia, government, NGOs, and experts in many fields to tackle challenges that, like the Web, are global in scale.</p>
<p>One of the focuses of the World Wide Web foundation is to investigate, in its Web for Society program, how to lower the barriers of accessing the Web for people who are not able, today, to find accessible and usable information.</p></blockquote>
<p>While I&#8217;m totally in favor and support breaking down communication and language barriers, as well as all social, cultural, and technological barriers, the biggest barrier we have to fight is greed. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s getting harder and harder to find free access to the web. Someone has to pay. With belts tightening around the world, will Internet access be only for the rich?</p>
<p>The Internet was originally started and built on lines abandoned by the phone companies, the same companies who struggled to find ways of charging for that access after they realized they were missing out on the financial possibilities of connecting via the Internet and web. They have been looking under every rock to find ways of making money off this &#8220;web thing&#8221; ever since. </p>
<p>Yes, we must pay for the continued growth and access to the web, but restricting bandwidth and data transfer hurts an economy already showing the flashing red danger signal. </p>
<p>Be warned, be aware, and let Comcast and others know that you do not want this. Fight back with your voice. Spread the word. </p>
<p>I remember when Arthur C. Clarke predicted that long distance telephone calls would be free by the end of the century. I thought it odd since he was a very intelligent man and he lived in the same world that I did, one where corporate greed controls everything. I couldn&#8217;t see such a thing as being possible, but with the web, it became possible. Will that freedom continue or will corporate greed continue to slip into our pockets?</p>
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<p>As of Wednesday this week, Comcast, the largest provider of broadband and DSL for Internet access in the United States is going to be restricting your data transfer levels to 250 gigabytes a month. According to Om Malik:</p>
<blockquote><p>With this move, the cable company will become the symbol of a new Internet era, one that is both monitored and metered. It is an era that threatens to limit innovation and to a large extent, the possibilities for new startups.</p></blockquote>
<p>Many bloggers are part of online businesses and startups as well as suppliers of video, podcasts, and downloadable and uploaded files across the web. As web designs and WordPress Themes become more graphic and code dependent, increasing our bandwidth access levels, these limits impinge upon that grown and that access.</p>
<p>While WordPress Themes, Plugins, and Widgets account for very small levels of data transfer, what about a new WordPress user who wants to download and experiment with a lot of Themes and Plugins? Downloading more than a gig or two of WordPress stuff is rare, but if you add that to their other file downloads, like software, instant messaging, IRC, email, flickr, YouTube, podcasts, music, news, television, VoIP, and all the information and data that enters our world through our computers - those numbers add up fast.</p>
<p>I just moved from a satellite connection with a 17 gig limit. We hit the limit all the time and we weren&#8217;t downloading music or shows. I didn&#8217;t even download podcasts until I went on a trip. There were three of us using the web for our work. Download a few software programs, update your computer&#8217;s operating system, test out some Plugins, and it all adds up fast.</p>
<p>According to the White Paper, &#8220;today&#8217;s power users are tomorrow&#8217;s average users&#8221; with a predication that by 2012 we will be paying about $215 a month for Internet data access. Malik and others are fighting back with words in hopes of changing this &#8220;walled garden&#8221; limitation. I hope you join us in spreading the word.</p>
<h3>The Web Must Be Free</h3>
<p>The timing of this announcement comes the same time as the announcement of the new <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/" title="World Wide Web Foundation" rel="tag">World Wide Web Foundation</a> was <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/donations/knight2008/press-release" title="World Wide Web Foundation announced press release">announced</a>. In the <a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/news/2008/09/welcome-to-the-world-wide-web-foundation.html" title="Welcome to the World Wide Web Foundation">welcome statement</a>, the founders, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, stated:</p>
<blockquote><p>The World Wide Web Foundation seeks to advance One Web that is free and open, to expand the Web&#8217;s capability and robustness, and to extend the Web&#8217;s benefits to all people on the planet. The Web Foundation brings together business leaders, technology innovators, academia, government, NGOs, and experts in many fields to tackle challenges that, like the Web, are global in scale.</p>
<p>One of the focuses of the World Wide Web foundation is to investigate, in its Web for Society program, how to lower the barriers of accessing the Web for people who are not able, today, to find accessible and usable information.</p></blockquote>
<p>While I&#8217;m totally in favor and support breaking down communication and language barriers, as well as all social, cultural, and technological barriers, the biggest barrier we have to fight is greed. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s getting harder and harder to find free access to the web. Someone has to pay. With belts tightening around the world, will Internet access be only for the rich?</p>
<p>The Internet was originally started and built on lines abandoned by the phone companies, the same companies who struggled to find ways of charging for that access after they realized they were missing out on the financial possibilities of connecting via the Internet and web. They have been looking under every rock to find ways of making money off this &#8220;web thing&#8221; ever since. </p>
<p>Yes, we must pay for the continued growth and access to the web, but restricting bandwidth and data transfer hurts an economy already showing the flashing red danger signal. </p>
<p>Be warned, be aware, and let Comcast and others know that you do not want this. Fight back with your voice. Spread the word. </p>
<p>I remember when Arthur C. Clarke predicted that long distance telephone calls would be free by the end of the century. I thought it odd since he was a very intelligent man and he lived in the same world that I did, one where corporate greed controls everything. I couldn&#8217;t see such a thing as being possible, but with the web, it became possible. Will that freedom continue or will corporate greed continue to slip into our pockets?</p>
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