I just downloaded the WordPress 2.0 iPhone app and am writing this post on it while I sit and watch the Penn State game. A couple of quick thoughts: The first thing I notice is that it seems like it is less about blogging and more about managing things. Comment modertion seems to be the big feature. They’ve added gravatar support to help identify people. They may have done this because blogging in long form on this might be tough. The other thing I am noticing is that they don’t seem to want you to add pictures after you start writing. I can’t for the life of me find a button...

Last week WordPress 2.7.1 came out and my blog started telling me I needed to upgrade. I always put it off because I have bothering with it, but this time I decided to just do the auto upgrade option. I’ve never done it and was a little nervous, but after backing up my database I went ahead and just clicked the auto backup button. About 10 seconds later I saw the following … that’s the way things are supposed to be!

About two months ago I was spending quite a bit of time talking with Brad Kozlek about how we might more fully explore CommentPress … we had great conversations, but as the holiday approached it sort of slipped into the background. Much to my surprise I saw a great post by my friend Alan Levine that has gotten me excited once again … Leave it to CogDog to make amazing use of the CommentPress theme for WordPress — and to do it in such an interesting and meaningful way. He worked with what looks like a couple of people to take WordPress MultiUser and integrate it with CommentPress...

Last night I wrote about exporting one blog out of the Blogs at Penn State platform and importing into a commercial (or self hosted) blog environment … clearly it is really easy, but I didn’t think of a couple of things. So today I did the same thing with my Spring 2007 Podcasting Update that I had done in the Blogs at Penn State about a year ago. You can see the whole thing here at this space now by using this link. This time I did three things while moving it: Grabbed all the images it references from my PSU Personal space and uploaded them into my common directory here at...

Growing up in Bloomsburg, PA we had this diner on Main Street that seemed to change its name every year or so — Toddle House, The Bloom Diner, and (my favorite) Something Different. It was a lousy diner, not the kind you’d want to hang out in … no that place was across the street, the Texas Lunch. It was the Texas from back in the day … probably the 1930s or so. The Texas had the world famous egg burger, the hot dog special, and anything else that screamed of grease and goodness. At any rate, that is a strange way to say that I am once again tweaking the look of this...

Thanks to D’Arcy for sending me the link and for CogDog for pushing me over the edge on theTwitter plugin for WordPress. This is a handy little plugin that I can see making life much easier — especially over at the ETS Blog and the associated ETS Talk Twitter account. Now in one motion I can post to the blog, update Twitter, and send everyone a link to the new post. Nice. BTW, I just noticed this is post number 600 here. Not all those posts made it or are visible to the outside world, but kinda cool.

I am trying out Wordpress.com as an alternative for hosting the Learning and Innovation blog. I am just flat out tired of dealing with my wordpress problems on my host and I may just find life easier with a hosted solution (did I mention it is free). Check out how it looks and works for me. The thing I need to know is what are pros and cons of this move? Anyone have insight for me?

I keep coming to my blog seeing the following error (I changed the username myself): WordPress database error: [User 'username' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 50000)] I know my host, StartLogic restricts the number of MySQL calls in an hour to 50,000 … can I actually be hitting that limit or are there other causes? The other blogs and tools I have installed here at the camplesegroup.com domain continue to run even when this blog goes down. My host tells me I need to go to a dedicated server package, but I really don’t get that much traffic — during...