Berkeley Coworking and cog motive are hosting a WordPress Installfest on January 15 to help folks get going with WordPress 2.7.
La Nacion Interview
When I was in Buenos Aires last I sat down in the morning with La Nacion and here is the resulting video in English and transcription in Spanish.
Open Sourcing Resolutions
Every year I make resolutions. Some years I do them. This year I want to try something different and open source them by opening it up to you guys. Here’s how we’ll try it: leave a comment with what you think my resolution(s) should be for 2009. I’ll pick the best ones, and if you’re the first to propose one I pick I’ll credit you in the follow-up post. I’ll print out the winning resolutions and put them on my desk for the year, so hopefully they’ll have a lasting effect. Remember, measurable things are better!
Top Emailers 2008, etc
As an update to last year’s post:
- Toni Schneider — 1,052
- Maya Desai — 826
- Mom — 659
- Raanan Bar-Cohen — 452
- Donncha O Caoimh — 424
- Barry Abrahamson — 386
- Mark Riley — 222
- Jane Wells — 218
- Ryan Boren — 200
- Andrew Ozz — 197
- Matt Thomas — 193
- Liz Danzico — 148
- Mike Hirshland — 144
- Heather Rasley — 139
- Joseph Scott — 129
I’ve expanded the list to 15. A lot of the same folks at the very top, but new faces in Liz and Jane from 2.5 and 2.7 usability cycles. Also three people on the list have changed their domain in the past year, just like I did. It must have been a year for that.
Also for fun here are some yearly posting stats courtesy of Alex’s queries:
Posts | Avg. Words | Total Words | Avg. Comments | Total Comments | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2002 | 360 | 139 | 50,190 | 1 | 390 |
2003 | 429 | 168 | 72,359 | 3 | 1,287 |
2004 | 990 | 54 | 54,257 | 6 | 6,236 |
2005 | 624 | 48 | 30,090 | 9 | 5,963 |
2006 | 313 | 70 | 22,010 | 11 | 3,503 |
2007 | 334 | 60 | 20,267 | 17 | 5,919 |
2008 | 302 | 50 | 15,206 | 21 | 6,493 |
As you can see I’m doing fewer posts with fewer words than ever, but getting more comments. At this rate I’ll be down to 40 words per post next year. Yay brevity. 😉
Working on collating some travel / WordCamp stats.
Old Dubai
Around Old Dubai, Jumeirah Beach, Al Qasr Madinat, Burj Al Arab…
Poolside Lunch, WP Meetup, Buddha Bar
A lunch by the poolside, WordPress Dubai meetup, and dinner at the Buddha Bar.
Kempinski to Burj Al Arab
Inside the Burj Al Arab and dinner at Al Mahara.
Happy New Year! and Dubai Meetup
I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a happy, safe, and prosperous new year. 2009 looks like it’s going to be a heckuva year. 🙂 Here’s a quick video clip of Grandmaster Flash from the NYE party last night at The Apartment:
Also a reminder that tomorrow will be the first ever Dubai WordPress meetup.
Mall of Emirates, Desert Safari
Browsing around the Mall of Emirates, including lots of shoes and the indoor ski range. Desert safari with belly dancer.
The Atlantis, Dubai
Just a few snaps around the newest hotel in Dubai, The Atlantis, which cost about 1.5 billion dollars to build.
New York to Dubai
Stopover in New York, seeing Julie; A380 Emirates flight to Dubai.
Christmas Day
Christmas day with family, opening presents and such.
Christmas Eve
Christmas eve in park, at House of Pies, and dinner with family and friends.
Houston
Exploring Houston with old friends.
Killing Silicon Valley
Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley, an editorial from the Wall Street Journal. The main thing the article misses is that while the economics of startups are currently distorted doing a startup is still one of the best ways to change the world, for your work to have an impact far beyond the walls of a single company. I’ve seen some killer startups recently, my only hope is that they have enough runway to make it to the execution of their idea. Entrepreneurship.gov says “Freedom is just another word for entrepreneurship.”
Friendster Switches
Friendster Relaunches Blogs, Switches to WordPress MU. Basically Friendster has switched millions of blogs from Typepad to WordPress, presumably at least partly because Six Apart abandoned their Typepad platform for third parties starting in late 2006 with Le Monde.
Art Direction Plugin
WordPress “Art Direction” Plugin, from Automattician Noel Jackson. Basically allows you to do what Jason Santa Maria does for his blog without all the custom code and template hacking, just a simple plugin.
WordPress Interface History
A Journey Through Five Years of WordPress Interface. Take a look at what the WordPress interface looked like at the beginning of 2008. How far we’ve come!
WordCamp SF 2009
WordCamp San Francisco 2009 will be on May 30, 2009.
Entertainment Gathering Day 2
Day two of Entertainment Gathering.