Rewriting Twitter for web best practices. It has some rough edges, but pretty neat. ¶

“The era that defined Wall Street is finally, officially over. Michael Lewis, who chronicled its excess in Liar’s Poker, returns to his old haunt to figure out what went wrong.” — The End of Wall Street’s Boom. ¶

Apple Bends to Studios, Adds Copyright Protection to MacBooks. ¶

There’s a cool 10 minute piece covering TechStars on Current TV. They were filming the day I was there talking to the companies so I have a cameo appearance a few times. ¶

I find there are two extensions that I install for Thunderbird every time I set up a new computer. The first is Plaxo for Thunderbird, which does a pretty good job at syncing contacts. The second is Messagefaces with Gravatar support turned on, which you can find in Add-ons > Options > Online Services. (Wish it was on by default, it doesn’t really work without it.) Plaxo has an avatar feature but I turn it off because way more people have Gravatars than Plaxo avatars. ¶

NY Times on the importance of sleep. ¶

This fellow caught the WP download counter passing 3 million last night. Cool! That’s total downloads of the 2.6 series, we reset it every time we do a major X.X release. ¶

IntenseDebate is back open to the public, and has a new WordPress plugin that does a two-way comment sync so all of your comments are always stored in your database so you can easily turn ID on and off without losing anything. ¶

I wanted to take a moment out to give kudos to the folks behind Hulu. Remember how much criticism and naysaying they got before and during their launch? It must feel good to have executed so well, and the content they have is really killer. You can watch all of Fifth Element, for example. ¶

I’ll be in Australia later this month for WordCamp Australia – if you’re in the country you should come out. ¶

Oobject is “Billboard charts for gadgets” and a great example of using WordPress as a CMS. It’s from David Galbraith. ¶