37Signals, the makers of Basecamp, and Ruby on Rails recently released a free html version of their book Getting Real. I had purchased the book several months ago and there are some useful approaches in there and if you’re a developer, UI engineer, or even a project manager, it’s probably worth a read. Grab a cup of coffee, and get a copy of the free version here.

There was a liquidation book sale over at the Lincholn Heights mall. For $20, they let you fill up a plastic bag with as many books as you could fit in one bag. For $40, they’d let you fill a box. We headed over a little late, but I still managed to make some great finds. It was a lot of scanning the areas for titles I recognized - some are a little dated, but most of the principles remain relevant. I picked up:

• Bricks to Clicks, Ed McMahon
• Creative Strategy in Direct Marketing
• The Culting of Brands: When Customers Become True Believers, Douglas Atkin
• The Value Profit Chain, James L. Heskit et al.
• The Cluetrain Manifesto, Rick Levine, Chirtopher Locke, Doc Searls, David Weinberger

Now I just need to find the time to read them.

Seth Godin speaks at Google

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It’s still unofficial (Donncha hasn’t posted an announcement yet) but Wordpress MU 1.0 has been released. So far, I’ve noticed a marked increase in stability, less annoying bugs, and some snazzy new CSS and UI improvements.

If you’re looking to launch your own multi-blog platform, make sure to take a look at Wordpress MU.

David Peraulty was looking for someone to take over his OttawaBloggers.com site after his recent move to London. I suppose it is hard to be an Ottawa Blogger when you’re living in London. In any case, I offered to take the site over, and almost have everything running smoothly in such a way that allows me to upgrade and do what I’d like to do with it. There still seem to be a couple performance issues, so hopefully I can figure those out soon enough. Wordpress MU has come a long way, but its still far from bug-free.