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At dinner the other night Om snapped a picture of Ev and I chatting, probably about snow.
Scott Berkun writes a delightful essay on How is WordPress.com made?.
Adam Gopnik writes How the Internet Gets Inside Us. “[This complaint] is identical to Baudelaire’s perception about modern Paris in 1855, or Walter Benjamin’s about Berlin in 1930, or Marshall McLuhan’s in the face of three-channel television (and Canadian television, at that) in 1965.” Hat tip: John Battelle’s Signal.
WordCamp Indonesia proudly presents the first WordPress Board Game. I gotta try this.
Over on ThemeShaper I share Premium Themes on WP.com, the backstory, which also links to all of the coverage from our announcement today.
Scoble muses on “Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service”.
Z-Type is a game that helps you practice typing. Fantastic to play when you’re switching to Dvorak. Hat tip: Lloyd.
Some good news today, TripIt is joining up with Concur. I’m excited about this because I travel all the time and I’m curious to see the TripIt approach and team working in the space with a larger team and more resources. 🙂
Rich Brooks on Fast Company asks What’s the Best Blog Platform?. That’s an easy one to answer. There’s still some disagreement over “What’s the best CMS?” but we’re trying to make that one easy to answer, too.
40% of the tasks in Mechanical Turk are getting people to spam. Amazon should take a hard stance against these, as soon as possible.