But today I received my first business presentation in a wordpress blog.

All Things D is a fantastic new WordPress MU powered site that I think is a really good example of what the platform can do. Being from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, they anticipate a healthy amount of traffic so they’re hosted on our VIP platform. Toni has some more details, including all the cool people involved in bringing the project together (the real work).

Access to Alexa Traffic Graphs via undocumented APIs will be closed within the next few weeks. Lame lame lame — an image tag is not an undocumented API. Recommended replacements: Quantcast, Compete.

I wrote a quickie plugin based on an idea from Techcrunch, when you visit the URL it redirects you to a random post from your blog.

For those of you who hadn’t heard yet, Curt Schilling has an awesome WordPress blog. He’s a star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, if you haven’t heard of him check out his Wikipedia page. He’s hosted on WordPress.com VIP Hosting, which we had to raise the price on a few months ago due to demand.

The WP dev team has decided to hold back version 2.2 for at least a week or two from the original date of April 23 while we polish things up. I’ll post an updated release date as soon as we figure out how long everything is going to take. (Which is extra-hard in open source development.)

Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage? An interesting series of tests where they show that commercial success is mostly a function of chance and early adoption, not quality. I wonder if the same holds true for software and websites? (Youtube?)

Building a better blogosphere, I was interviewed for the Sydney Morning Herald a few weeks back.

Photos from the Meetup in NYC are up now. It was really enjoyable, NY has a really great group of WP folks.

WordPress Google Summer of Code Students, it’s the first year we’re participating and I’m very excited about it.

Joseph Scott is joining Automattic. 🙂

J. J. Toothman wrote in that NASA is using WordPress for their new Ames Research Center project. Sweet!

I’ve posted my essay, On Sponsored Themes, on Weblog Tools Collection to continue the discussion that’s been happening there around themes with embedded adware. Check it out and comment over there if you have an opinion, there is also a WordPress Idea on the matter.

WP Designer is switching from Creative Commons to GPL for his themes.

Matthew Mullenweg Continues to show his arrogance — “WordPress isn’t even true XHTML or XML script or code, It’s PHP Script. and this is why it is so easy to hack. From what I’ve gathered, Blogger is a True blue XML Blog. For those that don’t know this, PHP script, is the same script that is used by your PhpBB message boards. and anyone with any kind of good computer knowledge, knows that PhpBB is *very* easy to be hacked. VBulletin is a classic example, as is InvisionFree.” Work has already begun to ensure version WordPress 3.0 will be in True Blue XML.

Clipmarks is probably the best implementation I’ve seen of the idea of bookmarking a part of a page.

Glenda made a video about my car passing 100,000 miles — 100k: The MattMobile Milestone.

One of the world’s best violinists poses as a street musician and plays a 3.5 million dollar violin in a Metro station. What happens? Probably the best article I’ve ever read from a newspaper. Hat tip: Paul.

PlagiarismToday » Why WordPress.com is Virtually Spam Free. I wouldn’t ever suggest there are no splogs on WordPress.com, I’m sure some have slipped through the cracks, but we do take the issue very seriously with both of proactive and reactive measures.