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title: 'Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 18'
date: '2008-09-18T23:01:59-07:00'
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# Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for September 18

#### [Automattic to Preview WordPress 2.7 at WordCamp Portland](http://www.wordcampportland.org/2008/09/automattic-to-preview-wordpress-27-at-wordcamp-portland/)

Aaron Hockley writes “I’m excited to announce we have a great addition to our lineup of speakers for WordCamp Portland. Jane Wells from Automattic will be offering a look at some of the new features and changes that will be coming in WordPress 2.7.”

#### [SplashCast has Politics](http://blog.splashcastmedia.com/2008/09/18/yes-splashcast-has-politics/)

Tom Turnbull writes “The channel is a massive clearing house for some really great political content. Yesterday afternoon, I listened to a series of recent political speeches while working. Without divulging my political leanings (not that I hide them) some of the content fires me up, while some raises my hackles a bit – which is part of the fun of politics, after all.”

#### [An Interview About WordCamp Portland](http://www.anotherblogger.com/2008/09/17/an-interview-about-wordcamp-portland/)

Aaron Hockley writes “Portland area freelance writer Kerri Buckley interviewed me about the upcoming WordCamp. Since it’s a blogging conference, I suggested the interview be posted on a blog.”

#### [A case study in poor authentication: Palin’s Yahoo! email account](http://www.greghughes.net/rant/ACaseStudyInPoorAuthenticationPalinsYahooEmailAccount.aspx)

Greg Hughes writes “Vidoop uses a system like this for resetting information on their OpenID accounts. It’s simple and it works. It requires me to have the correct device (my phone), uses a different communication channel (the phone network, hence “out-of-band”) to contact me and then verifies I am a legitimate user. It requires me to interact as part of any change.”

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