Matt talks about the future of wordpress, at the Greek Blogger Camp 08, held at Ios island, last weekend.

via metablogging.gr.

BTW, GBC08 was great! If you don’t believe me, have a look here!!! You should join us next year

Would you consider this
<link rel="cse" type="application/xml" href="http://vrypan.net/log/wp-content/plugins/google_cse/wp_cse.xml" title="Google CSE XML" />
to be the right way to advertise the existance of a Google CSE XML file? Any suggestions?

This is version 0.1 alpha of “Google_CSE” a Wordpress plugin that creates a Google Custom Search Engine using a Wordpress blog and its blogroll. (Read, my slice of the web to get the idea behind it.)

After you install (read the included readme.txt file!), use < ? cse_search_box(); ?> in your templates to display the search box. Please note that it may take a couple of minutes before Google updates its caches and your CSE starts working -this may be the case for any changes too, like adding or removing blogs from your blogroll.

As I said, this is still alpha. I’m looking forward to your comments.

Download google_cse v0.1.

It’s not a novel idea, and it has been in my mind for years: there is a special set of URLs that define what I call my “personal slice of the web”. These are the sites that form my blogroll, the feeds I’m subscribed to, the links I tag using del.icio.us, the URLs included in my browser history, etc.

For each one of us, this “personal slice of the web” is much more important and much more familiar than the rest of the web. I have always thought that we should have better tools to manage this “slice”. We should be able to view and visualize it better, search it, share it, etc.

During the last couple of days I have been fooling arround with Google Custom Search Engine. A wordpress plugin that creates a CSE using your blogroll is almost ready, it just needs some polishing (you can see it here in action).

I have also written some code to create a Google CSE based on my del.icio.us links (a demo is here) but this needs more work -it’s just a couple of quick’n'dirty scripts.