Captcha is broken – now what? The Guardian. I was quoted in today’s Guardian, which consistently has some of the best tech coverage around. ¶

Riding the Crazyhorse: Iterative Testing and Design of WordPress. If that sounds like something you’d want to see at SxSW 2009 presented by Liz Danzico, Jane Wells, and yours truly then vote early and often. Polls close soon. ¶

How Design Can Save Democracy. AIGA tackles election ballots. ¶

Shawn Johnson, a gold medalist and WordPress-powered blogger. Dreamhost says “So far we haven’t had to do anything special to keep her blog up,” even though the first entry has over 1,100 comments. (Man, those things pop up everywhere now.) Any other Olympians on WP you’ve seen? ¶

The best ongoing coverage of WordCamp SF I’ve seen is on ZDNet today. If you post/Flickr use the tags “wordcamp” and “wordcampsf2008″. See also: Techcrunch’s coverage. ¶

Spinn3r Weblog Hosting Breakdown. ¶

Matt Mullenweg & Joseph Scott Discuss The WordPress Themes Directory. ¶

A new comment rating plugin is in effect on this site, try it out! ¶

Get A Gravatar Ready For WordCamp 2008 Badges. I think this is the first time Gravatars have gone physical. Really excited about it! They’re generated on the fly using PHP and the PDF library. ¶

Matt’s Community Tags. This is the VERY BETA plugin I’m using for the community tagging on my photos, which allows people to submit tags which then go into a moderation queue to be approved or modified by an admin. Not recommended for general use yet, just getting it out there since a lot of people have asked about it. ¶