http://www.icastlimited.com Website & Graphic Development Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:36:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you've ever tried to get your site listed in Best of the Web, you know it requires a bit of effort and often a peice of change. Well, BOTW just launched a local version of their directory, called BOTW Local.  The basic listing is free, so you might as well ... http://www.icastlimited.com/best-of-the-web-goes-local/ On July 17th at 15:00 (UTC), you'll be able to start buying .me domains. iCast.me Kiss.me la.me allof.me And so on. With Apple's MobileMe product (www.me.com) just hitting the market, perhaps the ".me" domain craze will also start to take off.  You could get pretty creative with them. They are about $20 a year with a 2 ... http://www.icastlimited.com/me-domains-hit-the-market-in-hours/ Some great new featured in the new Wordpress 2.6. My favorites include the article edit logs.  You can now see what a post used to look like before you edited it.  Wordpress creates a log of each change.  You can then see the changes side by side, then restore an older ... http://www.icastlimited.com/wordpress-26-released/ Geeks across the land rejoice. Why just the geeks?  Well this release is expected to not have many visible changes.  A lot of those were made with the 2.5 release, so it's time to catch our breath. Instead, a lot of changes "under the hood" are being made to improve the usability ... http://www.icastlimited.com/wordpress-26-beta-1-released/ In an interesting side story of the PdF2008 conference, it turns out that the conference actually had to pay Jazz at Lincoln Center for the rights to record, tape, and distrubute the content of the conference.  Jazz at Lincoln Center retains the copyright to all "performances" in their facility.  So ... http://www.icastlimited.com/freedom-not-so-free-at-pdf2008/ Well, the web is approaching another one of those tipping points, and it seems that "LIVE" is the next big thing. Through sites such as qik.com and mogulus.com, users can stream video live to the world.  They also capture this live video and turn it around into ondemand video content after ... http://www.icastlimited.com/making-the-web-live/ The transactional cost of gathering a group of people together has gotten very low thanks to the Internet and mobile phones. Thanks to technology, there's virtually no cost involved with getting people together, to exchange information, and act in support or opposition of a particular common interest. Increasingly, media is not just ... http://www.icastlimited.com/clay-shirky-here-comes-everybody/ Wow.  One of the coolest concepts in blog tracking I have seen in a while.  If you are really a big time blog geek, you've probably seen "maps" of the blogosphere before.  They usually look like big and small dots on a page connected by lines.  The big ones look ... http://www.icastlimited.com/linkfluencenet-mapping-the-blogosphere/ We'll be at the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum Conference in New York City?  What's the PdF?  Read more here. So why are we blogging about the PdF Conference?  Well, it is probably the largest gathering of political and technology bloggers on the east coast.  The best of the bests are here. So we ... http://www.icastlimited.com/personal-democracy-forum-2008/ I was browsing ShoeMoney today, and I saw a post about a new (or maybe just newer) plugin called Increase Sociability. I had seen it in action before on the front end of a different website, but didn't know that was what I was seeing. Basically, the idea is to plop a ... http://www.icastlimited.com/increase-sociability-wordpress-plugin-trial-run/