The Habari project just released version 0.5 of its blogging software!

You can download Habari from this link or you can read more about the project here.

The third development release of the Habari blogging platform is out. You can download it from the Habari Google Code repository or read more about this version on the Habari Wiki.

There's a great interview with the developers of Habari on the Turkish site blogkazani.

Read the interview here.

One of the things that really bothers me about WordPress is polls. Now there are a couple of really good poll plugins for WordPress, but if you want to make the poll as part of the blog hierarchy, as part of the normal chronology of the site, you have to create the poll in one screen then add the tags to your post. Not really a friendly way to go.

In Drupal, you create the poll, and if you have the polls content type set to appear on the front page, it'll be there after you submit it.

Today is the Day of Silence on the Blogosphere.

I've already posted on how I thought that this was a very stupid idea. And I stand by that. Okay, some people didn't post. Did that really send a message to anyone?

Of course it didn't.

So those of you who are standing hand-in-hand singing Kum By Ya with others not doing any blogging today, do me a favor.

Tomorrow, get off you ass and do something.

You may have heard of A Day of Silence on the Blogosphere". (I learned about it today from Lorelle. Because of the recent Virginia Tech (college) massacre, bloggers are asked to go silent (not post, I guess) on Monday, April 30th.

(For the record, I haven't visited the site yet.)

I have two problems with this.

Please consider allowing "anonymous" or "other" in your comments section.

There have been a number of posts there that I'd like to comment on, but can't, since I don't have an account.

Thank You,
David

Google Webmaster Central looks like a good resource.

From the site:
"Welcome to your one-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes websites. You can learn here how to ensure that your site is easily crawled and indexed and access tools that will enable you to diagnose crawling issues, study statistics on how your site is doing in our index, and tell us how you'd like your site to be crawled and indexed."

Weblog Tools Collection has a list for you. (And, yes, I'm on it!)

/EDIT: I manually added the tags to this post, and had to disable Bad Behavior to get this to post from Writely. /EDIT
This is a test blog entry that I wrote in Writely and and sending it to my wordpress blog via the Blog publishing xmlrpc thingy. ('Thingy' is, of course, a technical term for some thingamajig in wordpress and other blog publishing systems.)