I’ve been interested in HTML 5 for a while, especially for theming. Now there is a gallery of HTML 5 sites so you can see, not only that it is viable to use right now, but also see how the specs are being interpretated in the wild.

Visit the HTML 5 gallery. There are some great sites on there already.

The news coming out of WordCamp SF is that WordPress.org and WordPress MU will be merged, albeit at an undefined point in the future.

I know at least one person who will want to point out that Habari already has single and multiple blog support in the one package.

Ryan has kicked off a doozy of a GPL fight over at WP Tavern which has started to become a little heated. So my thought for the day is this:

Until the way that GPL applies to WordPress themes has been tested in court, to the extent necessary to introduce clarity, there is no way of judging the validity of any opinions. I shall therefore henceforth refrain from consumption of or input into any discussion thereof.

I suggest you do the same, if only for a more pleasant world.

WordPress 2.8 Beta 1 has been released. You can download it here. The list of new stuff is substantial. You can see what’s new in 2.8 here.

I’ve posted a little more detail about my Theme Standards Rating idea in the WP Tavern forums. If you are a theme user or theme author I would like your opinion.

It seems that Nathan Rice of NathanRice.net and iThemes is planning to launch an affiliate free theme review site to review WordPress themes, paid-for and free alike, in an open, honest, and unbiased way. Sounds interesting.

Follow @wpthemecritic on twitter for details as they emerge.

Ian Stewart of Themeshaper fame has set up a new blog purely for links to WordPress resources. WPAZO — The Best WordPress Stuff is Ian’s place to link to the things he things are interesting.

The site is nicely categorised into Ideas, Plugins, Themes, Resources, and best of all, it isn’t a commentary, just a link and a paragraph. Subscribe now!

Justin Tadlock has published an excellent introduction to adding custom taxonomies in WordPress 2.8. It looks like a great feature that will create some excellent new capabilities.

Time for a movie diary perhaps.

The Weblog Tools Collections plugin competition 2009 has now kicked off. I have no plans to enter it this year, so instead I intend to review each of the plugins that are entered into the competition, as and when they are entered, and choose a winner of my own.

If you are thinking of entering you can check out this forum post on Weblog Tools Collection’s brand new Buddy Press powered forum. Personally I am hoping for some advanced work-flow plugins.

John Kolbert has posted an interesting quick tutorial that demonstrates how to limit the posts that are retrieved for the WordPress loop to those with a specific value in a specific custom field. For example, posts with a custom field of ‘review_type’ with the value ‘movie’.

Read How to Only Show Posts With a Specific Custom Field.