Allen Lew’s Thoughts

I’m now using the awesome WP-OpenID for OpenID authentication in the comments. Also, Gravatars are enabled.
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Inspired by Recruitpress, a job board made with Wordpress and a couple of packaged plugins, I’ve just deployed a job board for the Los Angeles Urban League. Basically, I’ve replaced the Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress, used to apply for this job section of each job post, with the cforms plugin, which I [...]

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George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media has been really putting out some great online academic tools. They’re the ones behind the Zotero research extension for Firefox. Now they are developing some software for web sites like Omeka, an open source content management system for museum collections and exhibits, and ScholarPress, [...]

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Joe Biden’s Wordpress blog got hacked with spam links on the footer. Al Gore was similarly hacked a while ago as well.
(via Mark Jaquith)
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Lorelle on Wordpress, who gave the Kicking Ass Content Connections talk at Wordcamp, sent out a free copy of her book Blogging Tips: What bloggers won’t tell you about blogging to conference attendees. I got my copy this past weekend and of course I’ve been reading it for the past few days. I’ve [...]

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The Wordcamp conference has come and gone (I know it was a couple of weeks ago and I just now blogged about it) and all I can say is I had a blast. It was nice to be able to meet the faces behind some of the blogs I follow like who this Matt [...]

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Thanks to my job at Urban League, I’ll be headed up north to San Francisco for the Wordcamp 2007 conference. Looks like it will feature a number of great speakers on the schedule. I won’t be liveblogging, but hopefully I’ll have a recap when I return.
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(Update: I’ve changed plugins to provide OpenID. See this post.)
Comments can now be signed with OpenID, thanks to this plugin.
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Thanks to a plugin by Alex King, this blog now has a Mobile edition, so it’s readable on a PDA. To get the plugin, check out his plugin page.
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I’ve reimplemented asides on this blog, thanks to this tutorial on implementing asides with Cutline. I’ve talked about making asides briefly before.
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