I've updated the Feed Statistics plugin for Wordpress again, this time to stop it from counting bots as users. If you've been running the plugin already, it will take a few days for the bots already counted as users to filter out. So your subscriber count may drop a little, but on the plus side, the plugin will now count subscribers represented by Yahoo!'s FeedSeeker bot, which reports its subscriber count in a slightly different format than other feedbots.

There are also a few small performance upgrades in this version (1.0.2), but I haven't been able to duplicate the "Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error" error some users have been seeing. If you get this error when activating the plugin, e-mail me at cfinke@gmail.com and we can figure it out together.

Download the zip file of the newest version here, and overwrite feed-statistics.php in your blog's wp-content/plugins/ directory if you downloaded an earlier version. If you're downloading it for the first time, just copy it to that directory and activate it from the Plugin administration menu.

Yahoo!'s video of Douglas Crockford's The JavaScript Programming Language lecture is definitely the best overview of JavaScript that I've ever seen. (The first part is embedded below, and the remaining 3 parts are linked after that.) I saw it a while back, but it's been getting a fair amount of press in the social media space this week.

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

I'm self-taught when it comes to JavaScript, as I've never taken a formal class that dealt with it, and it was refreshing to find that I've managed to pick up most of the good habits that Crockford recommends while avoiding most of the bad habits he cautions against. I must have made good choices as to which sites' and browser extensions' source code I studied.

I think next I'll get started on watching their "Advanced JavaScript" series.

Iraq copies Digg, implements voting.

Although in Iraq, unlike on Digg, each person's vote is equal.