Ann Handley is what we north-of-Boston folks call wicked smart. Further evidence of that is found in her recent blog post: “I Suspect Everyone Else Is Smarter, Better-Looking, Taller, Cooler, Cuter, Has Newer and Shinier Objects than I Do (and Is More Modest).”
Her point is that this “comparing myself to others” schtick is not new [...]

I’m at the airport getting ready to board for SXSW.
If you’re going to be at SXSW (interactive), or in Austin March 6th-12th, check out VegSXSW on Twitter or at VegSXSW.org.
I’ve set up VegSXSW on twitter so that it scans the tweets for those it follows and retweets anything containing #vegsxsw hashtag. I’ve also released the [...]

A little while ago Alper Çuğun released an hAvatar plugin, which parses the url left by a comment author, and if it finds an hCard there, looks for an image in the hCard. This is a nice step towards URL-based identifiers rather than email based ones.
However, I also wanted to show avatars for users who [...]

As previously reported here, last year’s report from the UN International Panel on Climate Change was pretty clear, if subtle, about the idea that livestock production was a major factor in production of greenhouse gasses, and that reducing or eliminating your consumption of such products was one of the best ways you can contribute to [...]

Upgraded the blog to 2.3.2 today, and I’m testing some new plugins - apologies in advance if this post appears in the feed more than once. (I did remember this time to disable tweet-tools, so I won’t be twitter spamming.)
Testing comments via OpenID - if you enter an OpenID url in the “url” box of [...]