I was interviewed for the first episode of The Humanities and Technology Podcast.
Category Archives: Asides
Crunchies Win
The Crunchies were tonight, and we were fortunate enough to win in two categories, WordPress for Most Likely to Succeed and Toni Schneider for a well-deserved Best Startup CEO. My heart was racing a thousand beats a minute going up to the stage, which never happens anymore, but I think because there were so many people I knew, and so many startups that I liked there, that it was different. Congratulations to the entire WordPress community for this win. Just wait until they see 2.5. 🙂 Update: If you want to see the shortest company introduction ever and me dork out on stage, check out this video and seek to 33:40.
Phil Hughes on WordPress
Dale Cruse wrote in that Phil Hughes, a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees and the second-youngest player in the American League in 2007, has a new blog on WordPress.com.
WordPress Solaris Zone
The WordPress 2-Step is a two-step process for setting up and installing everything you need to run WordPress inside of a Solaris zone.
WordPress in Sweden
Edenstrom wrote in the other day: “Several Swedish companies are pioneers using WordPress 2 as their new open source CMS platform. The nationwide magazine Fokus.se) and the food site taffel.se are two fresh examples. The bureau goodold.se are promoting WordPress as their choice of CMS.”
Sun Acquires MySQL
Jonathan Schwartz’s Blog: Helping Dolphins Fly, in which Sun buys MySQL for a billion dollars. A bargain! I think this is a good thing.
MacWorld WordPress Meetup
Tomorrow, Wednesday, there’s going to be a WordPress meetup at Chaat Cafe.
Macworld Liveblogging
Rating the Livebloggers talks about three of the blogs that were covering Steve Jobs keynote where he announced the Macbook Air. The one with the highest rating, Gizmodo’s Live site, is hosted on WordPress.com as a VIP, which is how they managed to avoid the problems that hit Crunchgear, Engadget, Twitter, et al. Here’s a Flickr picture showing how spiky the traffic can be. (That’s from the iPhone keynote, not the latest one.)
WordPress in South Africa
Paul De Sousa writes in: “One of South Africa’s largest media groups, Avusa, which owns most of the countries BIGGEST newspapers is now using WordPress. Here are 2 of their MU installations: The Times is South Africa’s first interactive newspaper, it’s part of The Sunday Times which is the countries largest newspaper. Financial Mail is a largely financial newspaper also owned by Avusa. It’s expected that in the near future more rollouts for other publications, newspapers, and magazines will happen as WordPress is ingrained into our online strategy.”
Twenty-four
Every year my birthday sneaks up on me, and this was no exception. After the lull of the holidays and the whirlwind first few days of the year, I am now officially 24. This is the sixth year I’ve celebrated with you guys on this blog, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23. This year should be interesting because many of the things I started 2–5 years ago are just now starting to come to fruition. I’m also hoping there will be some big changes on photomatt.net, including possibly a change in domain name. I’ll post more on that as it develops though. I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
All birthday posts: 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42.
Music Industry Lessons
Music lessons. “Things you can learn from the music business (as it falls apart).”
Youtube for Gamers
If you’re a computer gamer you should check out WeGame, a game video site from my friend Jared Kim. It’s beta so it’s just a taste of what’s to come, but you can read what Techcrunch thought. WeGame is the only company besides Sphere that I’ve elected to be an adviser to.
Wikia Search
Wikia Search is pretty darn cool. Not sure what I was expecting, I guess I assumed that search would be much harder than doing a wiki. The “Visvo” index seems good enough for daily search use. Their social networking stuff is clean too, here’s my profile — please add me as a friend! (I hope those links work post-alpha.) If they can pull off an open source ranking algorithm… that’s pretty exciting.
General Motors using WordPress
General Motors Embraces Open Source for New Community Site. “GM has introduced a new website called GMnext. The site utilizes WordPress and launching in spring a Wiki allowing General Motors to get better feedback on topics such as energy, design and technology from the community.”
Particletree
Particletre is a beautiful site and web magazine, built with WordPress. It’s from the fine folks who brought you the Wufoo.
Graffitti disses WordPress
Graffitti disses WordPress, their landing page boasts a 2-minute install. Seems pretty aggressive for a product that’s only available for pre-purchase (at $199).
Misery, Happiness
Hoosgot Lazyweb 2.0
Notcot
The Notcot group of sites, like NOTCOT.ORG, display information in an interesting way. Very compelling and well done. Not new, but new to me.
Airport Security Follies
The Airport Security Follies. “And rather than rethink our policies, the best we’ve come up with is a way to skirt them – for a fee, naturally – via schemes like Registered Traveler.”