The new CEO of McAfee is blogging on their WordPress blog, very cool to see another CEO blogging. Hat Tip: Robert Accettura.
Category Archives: Asides
New York City Meetup
I’m going to be in New York next week and it’d be great to meet some of the WordPress community there. How about we do a WordPress Wednesday on April the 11th, starting around 7 or 8. Any ideas for a good venue?
JS-Kit Ratings widget
JS-Kit Ratings widget is a small, registration free JS widget you can use to allow people to rate things on your site. I think this is a pretty neat approach to things.
With Jeff Bezos
At ETech Scott Beale called me over to meet Jeff Bezos and caught the moment on camera. Thanks Scott!
Good Morning Switch
Good Morning Silicon Valley, one of my favorite blogs, has switched to WordPress. 🙂
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Хабрахабр / Блоги / WordPress / Мэтт Мюлленвег. I have no idea what that means, but I was interviewed for a Russian Digg-like website and if you can read Russian it might be worth checking out.
Action Hero One-Liners
One Billion Spams
Alexa Blocks Statsaholic
Alexa appears to be blocking any image loads from the Statsaholic domain, which was recently renamed from Alexaholic. If you change or block your referrers, the images load just fine. Bad form on Alexa’s part, especially since Alexaholic put an infinitely more usable UI on Alexa’s data, which Alexa later updated their own chart widgets to copy.
Houston Meetup
I’m in Houston for a few more days and we’re doing a meetup on Monday night. Erica writes more about it here. Update: The meetup was a ton of fun and went late into the night. Thanks to everyone that came out!
LAist Interview
Summer of Code
WordPress is part of Google Summer of Code this year, with some real rock-stars mentoring. It’s a great opportunity for students, if you know anyone who loves solving problems and would be a good fit please encourage them to apply.
Apokalyptik
Demitrious has joined Automattic. Now go guilt him into blogging more. 🙂
WP Meetup and WordCamp 2007
March 9th in Austin we’re going to have a WordPress meetup at BarCampAustin. I heard the fighting robots caught on fire so there’s no competition at that timeslot anymore. Also, you heard it here first, WordCamp 2007 will be on 7/21 and 7/22 in San Francisco.
OpenID on WordPress.com
You can now use your WordPress.com URL as an OpenID, and we’re going to release the MU plugin that does it after getting some kinks worked out. This is also a bit of a coming out for Simon Willison, who implemented it all. Welcome to the team. 🙂
Twitter and Dodgeball
Last year at SxSW was definitely the year of Dodgeball, this year I think it’ll be more about Twitter. Though I’ll certainly miss the cross-street goodness of DB. Here’s my Twitter.
Code: OOP or POO?
At SxSW
Just a quick reminder, I’m going to be in Austin at SxSW next week and if you see me please introduce yourself. I’ll have a stash of WordPress stickers at all times. 🙂 There is also shaping up to be a little meetup on Saturday at Barcamp around 6, so block that out. Finally I’m speaking on Monday.
Number 16
PC World did an article on “The 50 Most Important People on the Web” and I came in at #16 and the youngest on the list. Thanks to everyone who emailed and wrote, it was a very pleasant way to wake up this morning.
Blank Slate
Daring Fireball: Blank Slate talks about basing your work off a template vs. starting from scratch. I think both can be valid, there are enough (over 1000) WP templates out there that finding one that’s close enough to what you want and customizing from there can be a great way to bootstrap and get started quickly. But longer term, invest in design. (This reminded me I have a long todo list for this site to catch up with.)