Anith Gopal

Automattic just purchased a company and service called After the Deadline , an amazingly smart contextual spelling and grammar checker, and can catch errors even the New York Times misses . It’s now live for 7.5 million WordPress.com blogs and available as a free plugin for .org users , it replaces the built-in spell checker on TinyMCE

Gravatar gets a light visual refresh , portent of things to come.

I’m going to be attending TEDMED this year . I think we’re at a crucial juncture for health, where in my lifetime we’ll look back at our treatments today with the same wonder as we have when contemplating medicine before the understanding of germs. I have a feeling TEDMED will be the best spot to get a glimpse of this future

Cash for Broadband instead of Clunkers .

Why I do Time Tracking , by Swaroop C H.

Techcrunch covers PollDaddy: PollDaddy Traffic Soars, Releases Ratings Widget With Possible Digg Competitor On The Horizon . You can read more about the new ratings widget on the PollDaddy blog .

Acquia Search looks cool , Automattic should do something similar for WordPress.

Live Web, Real Time . .

Velocity and the Bottom Line . How performance touches everything on the web, and includes a quote from me about the importance if of speed to the user experience. You can check out my whole presentation, the Moral Philosophy of Performance, on Blip .

The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good (To a Point) . A fair summary view of financial goings-on, with a bit of preaching at the end

I was on Tekzilla Episode 92 , interviewed by the lovely Veronica Belmont .

Introducing Typekit , an iTunes-for-fonts on the web that allows you to have rich typography in your designs and pages without resorting to flash or image hacks. (Old time readers will remember my yellow design which used Dante , the original WordPress logo font, and generated-image titles .) Typekit takes advantage of the current and upcoming browser support for embedded fonts and abstracts away all of the complications thereof like Feedburner did for feeds.