Derek Powazek, an inspiration to many of my early online activities, is now blogging with WordPress and has released his theme, the DePo Clean WordPress Theme.
Monthly Archives: May 2007
WordPress Stats
On Saturday night (because that’s how we roll) we launched WordPress.com stats plugin for WordPress.org bloggers, and it’s gone incredibly well so far. We’re coming up on our first full weekday since launch, it’s running on 2,750 blogs already and tracked about a million 1.3 million pageviews today. A few bugs popped up, of course, but that’s life in software.
Postiecon
“So, PostieCon (a conference sponsored by PayPerPost) was among the most controversial things I’ve ever done. People really hated that I was speaking there. I got constant crap from my friends and foes alike because of my decision to speak there. But, it turned out they didn’t have enough attendees so they postponed it to November.” — Robert Scoble
NanoWeb
Nanoweb is an entire webserver, like Apache or Lighttpd, written in pure PHP.
Technorati and Authority
Did anyone notice how Technorati is now showing an Authority score for blogs? I searched for it on Technorati, which took me to this blog talking about the feature, which seems to indicate it’s an alias for number of unique blogs linking in the past 180 days. It would be neat if the number had a little more secret sauce.
So using the new number, WordPress.org has 634,821 unique active blogs linking to it, and WordPress.com has 496,462. Given that I know we have 931,951 live blogs on WordPress.com, Technorati seems to indicate that about 53% of them are active, which seems within the realm of possibility. However I don’t think the same methodology works for all sites, for example Livejournal which claims 12,877,330 live blogs only shows up with 481,843 in the last 6 months in Technorati, seems unusually far below their million blogs updated in the past 1 month, even taking into account a huge number may be private.
Yahoo, Microsoft, PHP
If Microsoft were to buy Yahoo, I wonder if it would have an impact on PHP?
WordCamp Update
I’ve put a placeholder for the WordCamp 2007 site. The location will be the same as last year, the main change is there may be a nominal registration fee.
New Sphere
Sphere, which I’m an adviser to, has just re-aligned. What do you think? Update: They also have a WordPress plugin.
Scaling Large Scale Web Services
One day I’m going to do a presentation on Scaling Large Scale Web Services with one slide: Use PHP. 😉