LIAT Pagecast! thrilleraticr/walkerekcL.A.ncelaunchabombmargarmrshlstopmatthewdactylmatadrlife partnersdone waitinghands up houstonhoustonistjoe mathletekeef dot orgnonalignment pactskyline networkspace city rockTumblr (3.0; @liat)http://liat.tumblr.com/<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/rss-links-widget/">RSS Links Widget</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2559" title="Hard at Work" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/nick-anthony-hard-at-work.jpg?w=300" alt="Hard at Work" width="300" height="225"/>The Happiness Engineers had a great time in <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/support-hours-and-updates/">London</a> last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/184598299http://liat.tumblr.com/post/184598299Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:30:48 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/atd-wpcom/">After the Deadline Live for WP.com</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><a href="http://engrishfunny.com/"><img class="alignright" src="http://engrishfunny.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/engrish-funny-stalactite-her.jpg?w=300&h=199" alt="" width="300" height="199"/></a>Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem. The two possible explanations for this are that we’re all…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/183576852http://liat.tumblr.com/post/183576852Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:32:29 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/rss-in-the-clouds/">RSS in the Clouds</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><div id="attachment_2537" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"> <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordcamp-clouds/"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2537 " title="Pretty clouds" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/mat_3597-840x558.jpg?w=300" alt="Pretty clouds" width="300" height="199"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas</p> </div> <p>RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like <a href="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</a>…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/182565802http://liat.tumblr.com/post/182565802Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:37:17 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/august-wrap-up-4/">August Wrap-Up</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/support-hours-and-updates/">the Happiness Engineer meetup</a>. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way.</p> <p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/londoneyegroup.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2523" title="londoneyegroup" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/09/londoneyegroup.jpg" alt="londoneyegroup" width="775" height="571"/></a></p> <p>Our…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/179738239http://liat.tumblr.com/post/179738239Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:10:39 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/support-hours-and-updates/">Support Hours and Updates</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/about/">the lovely faces here</a>) will be meeting in London to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the resources you need. While us <a href="http://www.automattic.com/about">Happiness…</a></p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/172862258http://liat.tumblr.com/post/172862258Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:26:59 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/new-theme-sandbox/">New Theme: Sandbox 1.6.1</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><a href="http://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/">Sandbox 1.6.1</a> is now available to all WordPress.com blogs.</p> <p>Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find the older Sandbox versions. We’ve left them intact. If you’ve been using them, don’t worry,…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/167702444http://liat.tumblr.com/post/167702444Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:02:10 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/soundcloud/">SoundCloud</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>We are big fans of <a href="http://soundcloud.com">SoundCloud</a>, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as <a href="http://soundcloud.com/planned_obsolescence/no-5-can-the-dark-hurt-you">Beck</a>, <a href="http://soundcloud.com/thelittleidiot">Moby</a> and <a href="http://soundcloud.com/sonicyouth/sacred-trickster">Sonic Youth</a> now use the…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/162945004http://liat.tumblr.com/post/162945004Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:02:59 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/shorten/">WP.me — shorten your links</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2432" title="shortlink" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/shortlink.jpg" alt="shortlink" width="296" height="187"/></p> <p>Check out this address:</p> <p><a href="http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten"><a href="http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten">http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten</a></a></p> <p>If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about  70% smaller than the <a href="http://support.wordpress.com/posts/post-title-url/">…</a></p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/162944998http://liat.tumblr.com/post/162944998Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:02:59 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/new-theme-inove/">New Theme: iNove</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/inove">iNove by mg12</a> is one of the top themes used for <a href="http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/">self-hosted</a> WordPress blogs, and a commonly requested addition to our offerings here on <a href="http://www.wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a>. We’re always doing what we can to…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/162053819http://liat.tumblr.com/post/162053819Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:08:32 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/july-wrap-up-3/">July Wrap-Up</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>We kicked off July with <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/media-feature-vote/">an open vote on new media features</a>. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress.</p> <p>Later in the month we…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/156651266http://liat.tumblr.com/post/156651266Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:14:58 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/archives-shortcode/">Archives Shortcode</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our <a href="http://support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/">…</a></p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/152333834http://liat.tumblr.com/post/152333834Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:11:08 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/gravatar-widget/">Gravatar Widget</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><img src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/gravatar-widget-display.jpg" alt="gravatar widget display" title="gravatar widget display" width="226" height="159" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2306"/></p> <p>Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your sidebar. With the new Gravatar widget it only takes a few seconds to achieve this and stamp…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/147473759http://liat.tumblr.com/post/147473759Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:24:07 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/polldaddy-ratings-and-polls/">PollDaddy ratings and polls</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>PollDaddy joined the Automattic team last year, and we have been working on adding some of our great features directly into the WordPress platform ever since.</p> <h4>Ratings</h4> <p>The PollDaddy rating…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/143747750http://liat.tumblr.com/post/143747750Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:11:17 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/media-feature-vote/">Vote for Media Features</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software. In addition, we do custom development so that we can offer features not included in the open…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/137758363http://liat.tumblr.com/post/137758363Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:25:21 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/june-wrap-up-2/">June Wrap-Up</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Last month we launched the <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/yahoo-app-and-360-importer/">Yahoo! App and 360 importer</a> so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/socialvibe/">the SocialVibe widget</a>, which helps you earn…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/134300621http://liat.tumblr.com/post/134300621Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:56:50 -0500<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/nablopomo09/">National Blog Posting Month</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Remember <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/national-novel-writing-month-you-can-do-it/">National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)</a> back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with…</p></div>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/134083391http://liat.tumblr.com/post/134083391Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:34:51 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/MRU6o3fOPp25601vPZZvzrAro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://shortformblog.com/tech/this-is-why-were-working-on-a-redesign-that-simplifies-things?dsq=11615889#comment-11615889">ShortFormBlog thinks blogs could be better.<br/></a></p>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/128700612http://liat.tumblr.com/post/128700612Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:32:48 -0500journalismweb design“Not everybody can have everything, and the sooner we admit that, the sooner our health care debate will get realistic.”<br/><br/> - <em><p><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2221031/?from=rss">The sobering lessons of health reform in Massachusetts. - By Darshak Sanghavi - Slate Magazine</a></p> <p>This is one of those truths everyone wants to skip over on their way to affordable healthcare. Rationing is the demon that ends every discussion. It should be where we start.</p></em>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/128696731http://liat.tumblr.com/post/128696731Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:20:24 -0500healthcarefinance<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/MRU6o3fOPp1j8m20TitVcPYBo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/22/twitter-in-1935.html">Twitter in 1935 - Boing Boing</a></p>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/128458756http://liat.tumblr.com/post/128458756Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:18:58 -0500twitterhistoryinteresting<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/06/21/hello_health_clinics_would_offer_medical_care_online/?page=1">Hello Health clinics would offer medical care online - The Boston Globe</a>: <p>Is this the future of your primary care physcian? It should be.</p>http://liat.tumblr.com/post/128451696http://liat.tumblr.com/post/128451696Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:06:28 -0500healthcareinternetfuture