This German WordPress book is, as far as I know, the first to be published exclusively about WP. Here’s to many more. They sent me an email and hopefully I’ll get a copy in the mail soon.

I got the scoop that Webshots has a new beta experiment up called Webshots Shoebox which is like a universal photo aggregator mashup. Get the bookmarklet and it’ll all make sense. I noticed it imports tags from Flickr too. They have a blog to engage the conversation, so go check it all out. (The blog is on WordPress, of course.) Accord to Alexa Webshots.com has the #58 most traffic in the world. (Slashdot is #1,421.) Hat tip: Narendra.

I forgot to note that Ryan is doing these neat commit summaries of some of the work going on with WordPress. Here’s his second one. If we can bribe him into making this a regular thing I’d love to see more of these. 🙂 Also check out this animated screenshot of part of the new interface for 1.6.

WordPressDash is a Tiger dashboard widget for posting to WordPress.

Why everyone needs a bugmaster. We picked a few for WordPress today in the IRC meetup but we opted to call them “Bug Gardeners” for now.

This AJAX commenting looks pretty neat, has anyone made this into a WP plugin yet?

The Fillmore Jazz Festival is this weekend in San Francisco.

Okay WordPress is merging with the Canadians and the Drupal geeks in a giant unified open source party/meetup at the Fairmont Hotel at 6:30 PM tonight, June 25. Come one and all to learn the real future of Open Source. 😉

The Codex Cleanup is halfway done, with more than 2,000 edits, over 400 pages categorized, and much more. There is still time to volunteer if you would like.

I made the Open Media 100 list under “Toolsmiths.” Not too many surprises on the list. Thank you to everyone who nominated me. When I see these things I always think “Now I have to really work hard to live up to this hype.” So, back to work. 🙂

Niall finds some holes in a GoDaddy press release about blogging. I have a ton of domains with them, but their blog actually scares me a little.

New York was a blast, but now I’m all the way on the other side of the country in chilly Seattle. There are apparently quite a few conferences going on here this week so booking a hotel was a nightmare, the selection was very limited, but on the plus side I ended up on one of the top floors of the Sheraton and the view is great. Gnomedex looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun and have a ton of good information. We’re going to do a WordPress BoF or party or open source bar or something, so put your name on the list on this page. I didn’t get to meet a whole lot of people in NY because my schedule was so tight, so hopefully I can catch up in Seattle.

Jon Lech Johansen famously known for cracking several DRM systems (DVD Jon) is blogging with WordPress. Hat tip: Tim Hong.