Don't enter into the social compact of the Web without honesty and the ability to actually know what you are doing. People can see right through obfuscation.

Good list of things if you're not aware of them, but I was more struck by the awesome visual composition of this article.

What the crap is this? Disturbing.

Basic Twitter etiquette.

I can't not look at it.

Think the mortgage crisis was all there was? This banker has an opinion that we're only beginning—and I think he's right.

Pay attention to point number 3, then make a guess as to where your favorite companies are in the continuum. I'll bet you wish they were at step 3, but many of them might even still be at step 1. The final paragraph, indicating the desperation of moving to these techniques, is a spot-on prediction.

A fairly detailed post on the changes that are coming along with WordPress 2.7, which is being released to the hosted version of WordPress this week and will hopefully see self-hosted release either before or not long after. I've been using it for a couple of months and it's amazing.

I will certainly be trying this as soon as possible.

A clear example of a race in which the product that clung to simplicity ended up winning the war.

One of the better-written tech news stories I've read, well, *ever*. It's hard to believe that a true solution to this problem still hasn't been devised and implemented.