I just upgraded my blog from WordPress 1.2 to 1.5. As expected, the actual upgrade was very smooth, and it really didn't take longer than a few minutes. In the next few days, I'll need to play with WordPress's new theme mechanism to customize the design of my blog....
While I've been pretty successful in suppressing comment spam, I still seem to have some trouble with trackback spam. I believe there are some decent WordPress solutions out there now, but I haven't really had a chance to play with them....
Lately I've been bombarded with comment spam (free online poker anyone?). I have expanded the list of keywords that flag a comment as potential spam, thus requiring manual admin approval before it is posted. This is still annoying, though, as I have to disapprove the spam every time it is posted. Therefore, I have implemented a simple but hopefully effective automatic anti-comment-spam solution based on Elliott Back's Spam Stopgap Extreme....
JustBlogIt is a nice little Firefox extension (also works with Mozilla) that adds a right-click menu entry to easily add a blog entry for the current page. The unique thing about it is that it also supports many web based news aggregators, such as Bloglines....
Here is a very nice collection of weblog and RSS submission sites.