The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work?
In celebrating the merits of free software and the excitement over this radical networked production method, an important truth is left unspoken. Networked collaboration shines in the low levels of network protocols, server software and memory allocation, but user interface has consistently been a point of failure. How come the networked collaboration that transformed code production and encyclopedia-writing fails to translate to graphic and interface design
Use Campaign Monitor with Contact Form 7
The official Campaign Monitor blog recently reported on Joshua Bettigole’s Campaign Monitor Add-On for the popular form management plugin Contact Form 7. Rather than having to regularly export form entries and import them into Campaign Monitor to keep a subscriber list updated, the add-on extends Contact Form 7 and enables it to synchronize forms with a Campaign Monitor subscriber list.
WooThemes is sponsoring WordCamp Philippines and giving away tickets
WooThemes is co-presenting this year’s WordCamp Philippines and have announced that they are giving away 5 tickets to the event. Those interested have two ways to enter. Three winners will be chosen from a blog contest in which entrants are asked to visit the WooThemes gallery, choose their favorite design, publish a blog post about it and then comment on the contest post letting them know about it.
Glenn Beck launches website using WordPress
Conservative radio and television personality Glenn Beck has launched a website built on the WordPress platform. The Blaze covers “news, information and opinion” and is backed by both Beck and a “dedicated team of writers, journalists and video producers.” In a message to its readers, Beck revealed his reasons for launching the site: “Too many important stories are overlooked
WordCamp NYC 2010 announced, date set
Jane Wells updated the WordCamp NYC blog to officially announce the dates for the 2010 event today. WordCamp NYC will be held October 16-17 at Bratuch College, in New York City. There are two other conferences happening the same weekend: BlogWorldExpo in Las Vegas and an open source conference in Pennsylvania
WordPress Shop becomes WPSwagStore.com
For a couple of weeks now we have been refreshing the official WordPress shop website every day, only to see the same holding page (above) for a few weeks. But in the last few days the (now) old URL shop.wordpress.net has started redirecting to WPSwagStore.com . It’s likely safe to assume the shop has been renamed to the WordPress Swag Store, and it in turn is getting a facelift


WordPress hack: Get rid of HTML in comments
Just paste the code below into your functions.php file. If you prefer to use a plugin with the same functionality, you can grab one here .
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