• Social networking helps the creative process for knowledge workers-not a time waster after all http://bit.ly/cCk8cS #
• Getting serious with Drupal – working through Drupal 6 Social Networking from Packt – going pretty well so far – powerful stuff! #

• I just donated to Plugin Developer Bennett McElwee to say thanks for the Evermore plugin: http://bit.ly/bDuziP #wppd #
• RT @boonebgorges: Warming up my Paypal finger for Donate to WordPress Plugin Dev Day http://bit.ly/9zWMdB #
• Really looking forward to next week's #nc2010 conference. I'm hosting a lunch roundtable on WordPress – stop by! http://bit.ly/avQxUf #
• I'm listening to "Rodeo, Selections From The Ballet by Copland, Aaron (http://bit.ly/aTyz9e) – Makes me want to eat beef. #
• Get in on the pre-conference discussion at LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/cWfhO2 – even if you can't attend next weeks' #nc2010 #

An article on A List Apart on public speaking tips got me thinking on some of my hard-learned presentation lessons: Read the rest of this entry »

A new plugin allows automatic backup of a WordPress site to an Amazon S3 store.  This functionality seems most useful to me for a multi-user installation, where the amount of data AND the risk of loss is much greater.  At the moment there doesn’t seem to be support for MU, but with the coming merger of the single and MU WordPress versions that exclusion should be short-lived.

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My latest favorite tool for reading newsfeeds is feedly.  And since FeedDemon dropped their mobile version I haven’t found anything I like in the mobile space — but now feedly is making a mobile move.  The biggest mobile piece I miss is the save-for-later feature.  I often use items from the newsfeeds as fodder for a blog post (kind of like this post!)  The save-for-later functionality let me read on the mobile, save it, and then follow-up with it later on the desktop in writing a blog post. The feedly demo looks great, but with mentions of iPhone, Palm Pre and Android, I don’t see any BlackBerry mention.  I might have to switch — and Verizon is now supporting Palm Pre….

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• Snow is pretty-did a photo shoot down at Clinton Beach this morning-nice contrasts of textures-will post later #
• Got the 2nd month of my 12 months at Clinton Beach 2010 – a set on Flickr http://bit.ly/bQxxmJ #
• Morning snow lightly resting on the big bamboo http://bit.ly/a5d2eO #
• Interesting look at Agile from a designers angle: Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment http://bit.ly/c1VgBd #