http://ma.tt Unlucky in Cards Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:55:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Three Reasons Open Source Will Save The Economy. Only three? I bet we could think of way more. :) http://ma.tt/2008/12/open-source-economy/ I had the pleasure of chatting with Robert Scoble last week. In addition to him getting me to sign up for FriendFeed, we chatted a bit on camera about social media, the future of blogs, advertising, and of course WordPress. Here's part one, at 21 minutes. Here's part two, at 17 minutes. Thanks ... http://ma.tt/2008/12/scoble-interviews/ WordCamp Australia at the Red Box in Sydney, and dinner afterwards (including an arm wrestle). [gallery] http://ma.tt/2008/11/wordcamp-au/ Arriving in Sydney, NSW Art Gallery, and dinner at Sands Bistro on Coogee before WordCamp AU. [gallery] http://ma.tt/2008/11/around-sydney/ Everyone is honored and excited today that Change.gov, the website of President Elect Barack Obama, has turned on IntenseDebate comments to discuss things like health care. Micah Sifry has an excellent write up of the topic. Imagine what happens if those numbers--on not just any "centralized site" but the one that symbolically ... http://ma.tt/2008/11/intensely-automattic-changegov/ Tim said it better than I could, but I'm also very much looking forward to attending Entertainment Gathering this year. I was there covering the event last year and it was a huge creative recharge and very inspiring. My favorite story from last year was at lunch I noticed this amazing ... http://ma.tt/2008/11/entertainment-gathering-08/ If you ever wanted to see me talking about cooking, specifically tsatziki, or in an apron. (Which is probably the most complex thing I could make.) Luckily I had some professional help. Thanks to KTEH for the opportunity. http://ma.tt/2008/11/cooking-tsatziki/ Rewriting Twitter for web best practices. It has some rough edges, but pretty neat. http://ma.tt/2008/11/twitterfe/ "The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar's Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong." --- The End of Wall Street's Boom. http://ma.tt/2008/11/wall-streets-boom/ Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks. http://ma.tt/2008/11/apple-hdcp/ There's a cool 10 minute piece covering TechStars on Current TV. They were filming the day I was there talking to the companies so I have a cameo appearance a few times. http://ma.tt/2008/11/startup-on-current/ I find there are two extensions that I install for Thunderbird every time I set up a new computer. The first is Plaxo for Thunderbird, which does a pretty good job at syncing contacts. The second is Messagefaces with Gravatar support turned on, which you can find in Add-ons > ... http://ma.tt/2008/11/two-thunderbird-extensions/ NY Times on the importance of sleep. http://ma.tt/2008/11/nytimes-sleep/ This fellow caught the WP download counter passing 3 million last night. Cool! That's total downloads of the 2.6 series, we reset it every time we do a major X.X release. http://ma.tt/2008/11/3-million/ IntenseDebate is back open to the public, and has a new WordPress plugin that does a two-way comment sync so all of your comments are always stored in your database so you can easily turn ID on and off without losing anything. http://ma.tt/2008/11/intensedebate-reopens/ I wanted to take a moment out to give kudos to the folks behind Hulu. Remember how much criticism and naysaying they got before and during their launch? It must feel good to have executed so well, and the content they have is really killer. You can watch all of ... http://ma.tt/2008/11/hulu-kudos/ I'll be in Australia later this month for WordCamp Australia - if you're in the country you should come out. http://ma.tt/2008/11/wordcamp-australia/ Oobject is "Billboard charts for gadgets" and a great example of using WordPress as a CMS. It's from David Galbraith. http://ma.tt/2008/11/awesome-oobjects/ Interview, dinner, drinks, mojitos mo' problems. [gallery] http://ma.tt/2008/11/buenos-aires-day-3/ Around Buenos Aires. [gallery] http://ma.tt/2008/11/buenos-aires-day-2/