Note: this is not a call for bloggers. I'm not looking for someone to write for this blog. If you want to do that, apply here. This is a call for developers.

If you're reading our tech blogs, you probably know someone — or are someone — who works on web applications. We're expanding our Weblogs, Inc. tech team, looking for web developers and technical web designers for full-time positions.

The exact skills are less important than these traits: bright, energetic, blog savvy, great communication skills (email, IM and in person), organization and problem solving. I'm not looking to fill a specific role like "MySQL developer". I want to find two or three people who know how to keep this giant blogging platform flying along and contribute to our always-changing stream of web projects.

But just so we don't get people expecting to work on something else we don't use, here are some real skills we need:

• Apache, PHP and MySQL

• ASP/VBScript, Microsoft SQL

• experience with blogs, blogging, feeds, tagging services, CMSes, forums, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

• Windows Server, Linux OS, Mac OS

• regular expressions, JavaScript, AJAX

• FTP, remote control (terminal services, ssh) and file management

• experience administering DNS and email servers (Windows Merak Mail corporate mail server, qmail on Linux)

Does that sound like you or someone you know? Let me know.

Some of our team members work from home and some work from offices. We're looking for people in the NYC area, but we'll consider talented people from other locations.

When you paste formatted content from Word into a Web-based HTML editing system tons of Microsoft specific tags come along for the ride. They are in there for "round-tripping" — so that you can put the content back into Word without it losing its Word-ness.

If your goal is to serve the content online and never take it back into Word, those extra tags need to be eliminated. If you leave them in, your entry will look one way in Internet Explorer (which is surprisingly Microsoft tag-friendly) and much differently in all other browsers. Their class attributes and non-valid tags will defeat many of your site's styles, giving your visitors a mouthful of Verdana and Arial when you are expecting them to partake in Georgia or Trebuchet MS.

When Jason added the BloggingSundance Deal Tracker table, it was possessed by MS tags. My efforts to scrub the HTML by hand were going too slowly so I did a quick search for an exorcist. Dean Allen's Word HTML Cleaner came to the rescue. It is too easy to use: Just upload a 20K-or-less HTML file that you exported from Word and he will expel the tag demons for you.

It's magic. I love magic.