Allen Lew’s Thoughts

TypePad - Widgets: Not to be outdone by Wordpress, Typepad’s now got their own set of widgets for use on your blog. Hope they release a plugin soon for Movable Type installations. (via Download Squad)
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Automattic » WordPress Widgets- Making it a lot easier to edit the sidebar (and possibly more) of your Wordpress blog. Supports RSS, so you can already do a lot. It’s already a function of Wordpress.com. (via Andy Skelton)
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Monterey Institute for Technology & Education AP Courses: Students can take interactive lessons to prepare students for AP classes. They’ve got Physics, Environmental Science, and US History, among other topics. Sure wish I had this in high school.
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The Lyceum Project- Another way to install multiple Wordpress blogs, besides of course Wordpress MU and all the other ways (via Boing Boing)
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The Unofficial AEPi blog takes some design queues from my Calstuff design. It is also written by one of my Calstuff partners, Andy.
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Feed Icons-The new standard feed icon is the one on Mozilla Firefox and its live bookmarks. I finally implemented these on the site; now we need a standard way of putting them into an RSS reader.
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About:blank for less wasted time on the Web-I’ve been saying to do this for years.
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Facebook now does something with the interest data, aggregating it into a Pulse Feature. Fun facts:

33% of Berkeley students prefer The Beatles to Green Day.

18% of male students have moderate political views.
17% of male students are looking for whatever they can get.
57 people have birthdays tomorrow.
124 students poked each other today.
1.4% of Berkeley [...]

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Seed Magazine was rebuilt with Movable Type. Here’s how it was done.
(via Kottke)
Not that it hasn’t been done before, as Matt Haughey had an article on using Movable Type for all sorts of sites.
Of course, nice websites can be built with Wordpress as well, like California Connected. They even [...]

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Future Problems with Facebook entries?-
”I would bet that in the 2016 election, somebody’s Facebook entry will come back to bite them,” Steve Jones, head of the communications department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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