Linked List: September 9, 2004

Thursday, 9 September 2004

Unsanity.org: Flip Flopping Blog Software ★

After switching from MT to WordPress, Unsanity goes back to MT — a major reason behing comment spam management. Which goes to show how well-deserved Jay Allen’s first-place finish in the MT plug-ins contest was — MT-Blacklist is arguably more popular than any feature that’s actually built into MT.

LazyChat ★

Tantek Çelik:

LazyChat is the iChat / instant messenger equivalent of lazyweb.

In short: set your IM status to a question that you think has an obvious answer, and wait for one of your buddies to answer it, either with a chat message, or, perhaps by setting their own status.

Developing Cross-Platform Unix Applications with Mac OS X ★

From Apple Developer Connection. (Via Dan Benjamin.)

Migrating to Trac ★

Michael Tsai documents his experience migrating from CVSTrac to Trac (which is the Subversion equivalent to CVSTrac).

Security Update 2004-09-07 Release Notes ★

Apple’s recent trend of issuing useful release notes for security updates continues. Ever since the uproar in May over vaguely-worded, PR-filtered security update documentation, Apple has been doing a great job.

Eyetrack III ★

Tracking people’s eyes as they look at web pages from major news sites. (Most interesting factoid: text ads draw much more attention than graphic ads.)

(Via Jason Perkins, via iChat.)

Ecto 2 Public Beta ★

Most interesting new feature: a rich text to HTML converter. In other words, WYSIWYG for weblog writing. That’s a bold feature, because I’ve never seen anyone get it right.