Category Archives: Asides
The Publisher
I’ve been dubbed The Publisher by BusinessWeek as one of their “25 Most Influential People on the Web.” Before anyone else writes in that I beat Rupert Murdoch, I think the slideshow is in alphabetical order. 🙂
Startonomics This Thursday
The Startonomics conference is happening this Thursday in San Francisco and looks pretty interesting, I’m going to try to go by.
Carrington
Alex King is on stage at WordCamp Utah and just announced and launched the Carrington theme. It allows really advanced conditional template displays based on any number of variables and executed by naming conventions and its structure. I think this could be the base for a whole new generation of themes and development.
Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Hackaday, and Royal Navy
Mark Cuban, Jason Calacanis, Hackaday, and the Royal Navy all now have WordPress-powered blogs. The first three switched from Blogsmith. Hat tip: Automattic Publisher Blog.
Revisiting Moral Hazard
Revisiting Moral Hazard, by Bob McTeer. (Whom I’ve met.)
WordCamp Weekend
There’s not one but three four WordCamps this weekend. I just got back from China, where both the Beijing and Shanghai events were great. (More pictures coming soon.) This Saturday you can check out WordPress events in Portland, Salt Lake City (I’ll be attending this one, they asked me first), Vancouver, and Birmingham.
18 on 30 Under 30
Inc. just announced their Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 and I came in at #18. Cool! Some really young ones on the list though — I’m getting old.
Going to China
I’m going to be in China later this week for WordCamp Shanghai and Beijing. Really looking forward to meeting all the WordPress users there.
Dropbox
Dropbox is open to the public now. I’d love something like this I could use with my own Subversion server.
CMS Critic Interview
Yahoo Hack Day
Yahoo’s Hack Day is coming up this Friday and Saturday. I’m going to be a judge at the event. The other judges are David Filo, Ash Patel, Cheryl Ainoa, Jeff Clavier, Rashmi Sinha, and Om Malik. Fun group!
SEO Book Interview
10 PHP Principles
NFL on WordPress
The new NFL blogs are on WordPress and hosted on VIP. Check out this info and video about it.
Martha Stewart on WP
“As my blog has grown in popularity, we realized we were ready to switch to a platform offering more programming options. After careful research, that new platform will be WordPress, which we hope to launch tomorrow with an exciting photo gallery from my most recent trip to Mexico.” — Martha Stewart. Ms. Stewart was previously on Typepad. Hat tip: Joe Clark.
Social Media Bible Podcast
In Philippines
Landed in the Philippines a few hours ago. Looking forward to meeting WordPress users in Davao and Manila! In other news, the immigration/customs forms here are sponsored by a booze company. Smartly, though, they use carbon copy so you don’t have to write the exact same thing twice, like you do in the US.
Origins and Table Mountain
Exploring Cape Town – Origin Roasting and Table Mountain.
Captcha is Broken
Captcha is broken – now what? The Guardian. I was quoted in today’s Guardian, which consistently has some of the best tech coverage around.