Here’s a video of my “high order bit” keynote talk at Web 2.0 Expo. It’s succinct — 10 minutes — and covers WordPress.com and Automattic growth, the possibly related posts launch, and Monotone.
Category Archives: Asides
Mark on DRM
Favorite Posting Bookmarklet
A question for Ma.tt readers: What’s your favorite posting bookmarklet? We’re starting to think about ways to make posting to WP from wherever you are on the web easier in 2.6, just curious what you guys enjoy the most and why.
Web 2.0 Expo Announcements
The two things I announced at Web 2.0 Expo this morning (I don’t want to tell you how early I got up) were Possibly Related Posts and the Monotone theme. The latter should be available early next week. A few people covered the talk, including WebGuild, NextWeb, Mashable, and WebWare. Update: Here are some pictures from the talk.
Kara Interview
I had the pleasure of chatting with Kara Swisher for a bit earlier in the week over oysters and cobb salad. Kara has posted a summary of our chat and a 5-minute video interview with different types of questions than I normally get.
WordCamp in Vancouver
At Web 2.0 Expo
For those of you in San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo, I’m going to be speaking Friday in the main ballroom at 10:15 AM. Earlier that morning are Jonathan Schwartz, Dan Lyons, and Matt Cutts, all tough acts to follow. I’ll be doing a “High Order Bit” which means “short” and will be launching something.
Identicons from Gravatar
You may notice in my comments now for people who don’t have an existing Gravatar I show cool geometric patterns. These are called Identicons and they were originally conceived by Don Park. With a single parameter, you can have the Gravatar API fall back to an identicon or even force it to return one. This works in any size Gravatar supports, up to 512 pixels. Sweet!
Thomson Reuters WordPress
Yonkers Graveyard and Dinner
Visiting Glenda’s grandmother’s grave in Yonkers and exploring the nearby grounds, family dinner with her brother Gil and mother.
Flickr Code
Flickr has open sourced their uploader on their new code site, which has all the nice bits you’d expect including a WordPress-powered blog. Hat tip: Ryan Schwartz.
Slow-boiled Frog
After we had a late breakfast the other day troublemaker John Roberts informed that the story about throwing a frog into hot vs cold water, that I love to use, is totally false. The blog he linked has an entire category chronicling the slow-boiled frog showing up in the news. I stand corrected!
Papal WordPress
The United States Papal visit has a WordPress.com blog. Nice! I’m going to be in New York City this weekend at the same time, maybe see mass in Yankee stadium?
On Sphere
Sphere has found a home at the prescient AOL, as talked about on their blog, GigaOM, and Techcrunch. Sphere is a great company and the folks who made this happen at AOL will look like rockstars as the team continues to execute on their vision of tying the web together through lateral navigation. Disclosure, as it says on my about page, I was an advisor to Sphere and we’re cousins in the True family.
Any color schemes?
I’m just curious if any plugins or such have taken advantage of the admin color scheme switcher in version 2.5 yet? I’d like to highlight some in the plugin directory.
WP Meetup in Philadelphia
I’m being honored by the Temple Fox School IT Awards so I’ll be in Philadelphia next week. I extended my trip so we can do a WordPress meetup on Thursday night, April 10. The current plan, thanks to Alex Hillman, is meeting at National Mechanics at 6PM.
New bbPress
Why Blog? Book Deal
Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal – New York Times. Talks about two WordPress.com blogs – Stuff White People Like and I Can Haz Cheezburger.
New BuddyPress Site
The new BuddyPress site is up and includes the key ingredients of an open source project: mailing list, bug tracker, and SVN. No official release of anything yet, but if you’re interested in following the development you should join the mailing list. The site itself is, of course, powered by WordPress.
Catching up on March
March is almost over, but email-wise I’m just getting started. Between the travel, conferences like SxSW and WordCamp, the 2.5 release, and the wisdom tooth stuff I’ve got stuff backed up even from Febuary. I’m back home this week so I’ll be doing as much catch-up as possible. If you get a response to an old email from me, that’s why.