Matt Mullenweg

WordPress Installfest

heather — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:08:02 +0000

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

Matt — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:46:12 +0000

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

Matt — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:17:52 +0000

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

Matt — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:27:09 +0000

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.

Happy New Year! and Dubai Meetup

Matt — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:17:11 +0000

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.

Killing Silicon Valley

Matt — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:30:57 +0000

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

Matt — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:02:11 +0000

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

Matt — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:58:48 +0000

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

Matt — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:23:02 +0000

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

Matt — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:36:44 +0000

WordCamp San Francisco 2009 will be on May 30, 2009.

2.7

Matt — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:53:11 +0000

WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” is live to the world. So many people put so much into this release, all I can really say is “thank you.”

Check out the release video:

Most Annoying Economic Crisis

Matt — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:38:41 +0000

Inside the world’s most annoying economic crisis, on a shortage of coins in Argentina. “Factoring in the 50 centavos he had already handed over, this effectively reduced the fare to 13.50 pesos, which, for reasons I’ll get to in a moment, is actually more than 14.50 pesos.” Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky.

Houston & Dubai

Matt — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:18:44 +0000

I’m going to be in Houston for Christmas and while there attending the December Refresh Houston Meetup. If you’re in Houston, come by and say hi. After that I’m going to Dubai for a little bit of vacation, but if there are any WordPress users there I’d love to meet up one night. I’ll be there the Dec 28–Jan 4.

Learn Faster

Matt — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:06:04 +0000

Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better.

Gas Stations for Flying Cars

Matt — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:48:58 +0000

Open Thread: Social Web & Its Challenges . “building floating gas stations for the flying cars”

Open Source Economy

Matt — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:55:54 +0000

Three Reasons Open Source Will Save The Economy. Only three? I bet we could think of way more.

Scoble Interviews

Matt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:23:09 +0000

I had the pleasure of chatting with Robert Scoble last week. In addition to him getting me to sign up for FriendFeed, we chatted a bit on camera about social media, the future of blogs, advertising, and of course WordPress.

Here’s part one, at 21 minutes.

Here’s part two, at 17 minutes.

Thanks to Robert for taking the time out to chat, as always it was a pleasure.

Sydney Beaches

Matt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:00:41 +0000

In Sydney, Australia around a number of beaches including Bondi, with Sam and friends.