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The link gives a nice overview of some of the user-facing features of 3.1.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/3-1-hits-wp-com/">∞</a></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-11-18T08:51:13+00:00"> <span class="month">Nov</span><br/> <span class="day">18</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-36220 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-video entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Short, Sweet WP Video" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/short-sweet-wp-video/#comments"> <span class="count">18</span> </a> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/short-sweet-wp-video/">Short, Sweet WP Video</a></h2> <p class="entry-filed">Filed under: <span class="entry-categories"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/category/video/" title="View all posts in Video" rel="category tag">Video</a></span></p> <p class="entry-tagged"><span class="entry-tags"></span></p> <div class="double-dashed"></div> <p>A few months ago I was recently interviewed on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.kteh.org/">KTEH’s</a> program <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.kteh.org/tv/productions/thisisus.jsp">“This is Us!”</a> and the result ended being a nice 5 minute overview of WordPress, something you could show to your Mom to explain the whole thing. Here’s the video (using Youtube’s new beta iframe player):</p> <p><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="390" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918if_/http://www.youtube.com/embed/SQEQr7c0-dw" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-11-15T09:06:21+00:00"> <span class="month">Nov</span><br/> <span class="day">15</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-36215 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-quote entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Gamification" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/gamification/#comments"> <span class="count">11</span> </a> <div class="blockquote"><blockquote><p>I like neologisms. We need new words because we have new ideas, and ideas are the only things that break the law of the conservation of energy. Where once there was nothing there now is <em>something</em>, and the history of the neologism is a history of those moments of pure creation. ‘Gamification’, that said, can go take a long walk off a short pier.</p></blockquote></div> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.hideandseek.net/cant-play-wont-play/"><cite>Can’t play, won’t play</cite> by Margaret Robertson</a>. Hat tip: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://blog.numenity.org/">Paul Kim</a>.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/gamification/">∞</a></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-11-09T09:16:45+00:00"> <span class="month">Nov</span><br/> <span class="day">9</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-36042 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-essays entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on 1.0 Is the Loneliest Number" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/#comments"> <span class="count">190</span> </a> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/">1.0 Is the Loneliest Number</a></h2> <p class="entry-filed">Filed under: <span class="entry-categories"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/category/essays/" title="View all posts in Essays" rel="category tag">Essays</a></span></p> <p class="entry-tagged"><span class="entry-tags"></span></p> <div class="double-dashed"></div> <p>Many entrepreneurs idolize Steve Jobs. He’s such a perfectionist, they say. Nothing leaves the doors of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Loop_(street)">1 Infinite Loop</a> in Cupertino without a polish and finish that makes geeks everywhere drool. No compromise!</p> <p>I like Apple for the opposite reason: they’re not afraid of getting a rudimentary 1.0 out into the world.</p> <div class="blockquote"><blockquote><p>“No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.” — cmdrtaco, Slashdot.org, 2001, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257">reviewing the first iPod</a></p></blockquote></div> <p>I remember my first 1G iPhone. Like a meal you have to wait for, or a line outside a club, the fact that I stood in line for hours made the first time I swiped to unlock the phone that much sweeter. It felt like I was on Star Trek and this was my magical tricorder… a tricorder that constantly dropped calls on AT&T’s network, had a headphone adapter that didn’t fit any of the hundreds of dollars of headphones I owned, ran no applications, had no copy and paste, and was as slow as molasses.</p> <p>Now, the crazy thing about that release is when the original iPhone went public, flaws and all, you know that in a secret room somewhere on Apple’s campus they had a working prototype of the 3GS with a faster processor, better battery life, normal headphone jack… a perfect everything. Steve Jobs was probably already carrying around one in his pocket. How painful it must have been to have everyone criticizing them for all the flaws <em>they had already fixed</em> but couldn’t release yet because they were waiting for component prices to come down or for some bugs to be worked out of the app store.</p> <div class="blockquote"><blockquote><p>“$400 for an Mp3 Player! I’d call it the Cube 2.0 as it wont sell, and be killed off in a short time… and it’s not really functional. Uuhh Steve, can I have a PDA now?” — elitemacor, macrumors.com, 2001, responding to the original iPod announcement</p></blockquote></div> <p>Or, I wonder, are they really quite zen about the whole thing? There is a dark time in WordPress development history, a lost year. Version 2.0 was released on December 31st, 2005, and version 2.1 came out on January 22nd, 2007. Now just from the dates, you might imagine that perhaps we had some sort of rift in the open source community, that all the volunteers left or that perhaps WordPress just slowed down. In fact it was just the opposite, 2006 was a breakthrough year for WP in many ways: WP was downloaded 1.5 million times that year, and we were starting to get some high-profile blogs switching over. The growing prominence had attracted scores of new developers to the project and we were committing new functionality and fixes faster than we ever had before.</p> <p>What killed us was “one more thing.” We could have easily done three major releases that year if we had drawn a line in the sand, said “finished,” and shipped the darn thing. The problem is that the longer it’s been since your last release the more pressure and anticipation there is, so you’re more likely to try to slip in just one more thing or a fix that will make a feature really shine. For some projects, this literally goes on forever.</p> <div class="blockquote"><blockquote><p>“hey – heres an idea Apple – rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up? or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm?” — Pants, macrumors.com, 2001</p></blockquote></div> <p>I imagine prior to the launch of the iPod, or the iPhone, there were teams saying the same thing: the copy + paste guys are *so close* to being ready and we know Walt Mossberg is going to ding us for this so let’s just not ship to the manufacturers in China for just a few more weeks…<em> </em>The Apple teams were probably embarrassed. But <strong>if you’re not embarrassed when you ship your first version you waited too long.</strong></p> <p>A beautiful thing about Apple is how quickly they obsolete their own products. I imagine this also makes the discipline of getting things out there easier. Like I mentioned before, the longer it’s been since the last release the more pressure there is, but if you know that if your bit of code doesn’t make this version but there’s the +0.1 coming out in 6 weeks, then it’s not that bad. It’s like flights from San Francisco to LA, if you miss one you know there’s another one an hour later so it’s not a big deal. Amazon has done a fantastic job of this with the Kindle as well, with a new model every year.</p> <p><strong>Usage is like oxygen for ideas.</strong> You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it’s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world. It’s even worse because development doesn’t happen in a vacuum — if you have a halfway decent idea, you can be sure that there are two or three teams somewhere in the world that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman03/kauffman_index.html">independently came up with it</a> and are working on the same thing, or something you haven’t even imagined that disrupts the market you’re working in. (Think of all the podcasting companies — including Ev Williams’ Odeo — before iTunes built podcasting functionality in.)</p> <p>By shipping early and often you have the unique competitive advantage of hearing from real people what they think of your work, which in best case helps you anticipate market direction, and in worst case gives you a few people rooting for you that you can email when your team pivots to a new idea. Nothing can recreate the crucible of real usage.</p> <p>You think your business is different, that you’re only going to have one shot at press and everything needs to be perfect for when Techcrunch brings the world to your door. But if you only have one shot at getting an audience, you’re doing it wrong.</p> <p>After the debacle of the 2.0 -> 2.1 lost year of 2006 the WordPress community adopted a fairly aggressive schedule of putting a major release out 3 times a year, and we stuck to it fairly well although in 2009-2010 we’ve slacked a bit, falling into the “one more thing” mentality again. But more fundamentally it’s still shrink-wrap software, which means that updates burden its users in some way so we have to spread them out.</p> <p>That’s why I love working on web services and pretty much everything <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://automattic.com/">Automattic focuses on</a> is a service. On WordPress.com we deploy code to production twenty or thirty times a day and anyone in the company can do it. We measure the deploy time to hundreds of servers and if it gets too slow (more than 30-60 seconds) we figure out a new way to optimize it. In that short rapid iteration environment the most important thing isn’t necessarily how perfect code is when you send it out, but how quickly you can revert if you need to so the cost of a mistake is really low, under a minute of brokenness. Someone can go from idea to working code to production and more importantly real users in just a few minutes and I can’t imagine any better form of testing.</p> <div class="blockquote"><blockquote><p>“Real artists ship.” — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Real_Artists_Ship.txt">Steve Jobs, 1983</a></p></blockquote></div> <p><em>A version 1.0 of this essay appeared in the book </em><a style="font-style: italic;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470929839">Do More Faster</a><em>. I should also note that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://automattic.com/jobs/">Automattic is always hiring</a>.</em></p> </div> <div class="post-36047 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides entry-content"> <div class="single-dashed"></div> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on On Distraction" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/on-distraction/#comments"> <span class="count">6</span> </a> <p>“We are made to feel that at any point, somewhere on the globe, something may occur to sweep away old certainties—something that, if we failed to learn about it instantaneously, could leave us wholly unable to comprehend ourselves or our fellows.” – <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_snd-concentration.html">On Distraction by Alain de Botton</a>. I’ll finish this later, I need to reload <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://techmeme.com/">Techmeme</a>.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/on-distraction/">∞</a></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-11-08T18:20:51+00:00"> <span class="month">Nov</span><br/> <span class="day">8</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-36040 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on 15 Blogging Best Practices" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/15-blogging-best-practices/#comments"> <span class="count">8</span> </a> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://lauraleewalker.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/top-15-blogging-best-practices-2/">Top 15 Blogging Best Practices</a>, which I found via the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://editor.wordpress.com/">Share the Word blog</a>.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/15-blogging-best-practices/">∞</a></p> </div> <div class="post-36433 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-gallery entry-content"> <div class="single-dashed"></div> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Fall in Luxembourg" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/luxembourg/#comments"> <span class="count">9</span> </a> <div class="img-container"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/luxembourg/"> <img width="250" height="166" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918im_/http://s.ma.tt/files/2010/11/MCM_4845-250x166.jpg" class="attachment-matt2010-gallery-thumbnail" alt="MCM_4845" title="MCM_4845"/> </a> </div> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/luxembourg/">Fall in Luxembourg</a></h2> <div class="img-text"> <p>Exploring Parc de Ville with its Fall colors, the city center of Luxembourg, and the Sonny Rollins concert at Philharmonie.</p> <p>This album contains <strong>109 items</strong>.</p> </div> <br style="clear:both;"/><br/><br/> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-11-07T10:25:22+00:00"> <span class="month">Nov</span><br/> <span class="day">7</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-36038 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides tag-press entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on RTE Interview" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/rte-interview/#comments"> <span class="count">6</span> </a> <p>When I was in Ireland last week I got the chance to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/f-ounders-camp-in-dublin/mcm_4039-2/">appear</a> on the nightly news show on RTE, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://wordpress.tv/2010/10/29/photomatt-rte/">which you can view here on WPTV</a>. It was interesting because (1) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/f-ounders-camp-in-dublin/mcm_4012-2/">I was standing in the oddest spot</a> and (2) because it was live broadcast I had one of those things in my ear and there was a second or so delay, which was kind of fun. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/f-ounders-camp-in-dublin/mcm_4029-2/">Here’s the view from the broadcast van</a>. The guest photos were taken by Ciara Beades and Aisling Keane.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/rte-interview/">∞</a></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-11-06T18:16:35+00:00"> <span class="month">Nov</span><br/> <span class="day">6</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-36035 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Spike Jonze and Kanye" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/spike-jonze-and-kanye/#comments"> <span class="count">5</span> </a> <p>I’ve seen two interesting online short films recently, and I’d recommend both (if you’re above 18). The first is “I’m Here” by Spike Jonze, a love story, which you can see on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.imheremovie.com/">its official Absolut-sponsored site</a> or on Youtube <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/movies-free-online/im-here-a-short-fim-by-spike-j.html">through these Ebert links</a>. The second is Kanye’s new bizarre but gorgeous short film <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5wkZ-dJXA">Runaway, viewable on YouTube</a>, which features the beautiful Selita Ebanks. Both are about 30 minutes long, and will have you thinking and talking to your friends.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/spike-jonze-and-kanye/">∞</a></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-11-05T18:17:08+00:00"> <span class="month">Nov</span><br/> <span class="day">5</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-36058 post type-post status-publish format-gallery hentry category-gallery entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Athens with Social" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/athens-with-social/#comments"> <span class="count">12</span> </a> <div class="img-container"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/athens-with-social/"> <img width="250" height="166" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918im_/http://s.ma.tt/files/2010/11/MCM_4288-250x166.jpg" class="attachment-matt2010-gallery-thumbnail" alt="MCM_4288" title="MCM_4288"/> </a> </div> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/athens-with-social/">Athens with Social</a></h2> <div class="img-text"> <p>I met up with Team Social from Automattic in Athens, Greece where they were having their meetup. This day included some injuries, the Acropolis, and a night out on the town.</p> <p>This album contains <strong>153 items</strong>.</p> </div> <br style="clear:both;"/><br/><br/> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-11-04T07:28:30+00:00"> <span class="month">Nov</span><br/> <span class="day">4</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-36033 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Implications Of Blogging" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/implications-of-blogging/#comments"> <span class="count">5</span> </a> <p>Philip Leigh writes about <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=137079">The Implications Of Blogging for MediaPost</a>. “[M]uch like the printing press transformed publishing, the true cultural significance of blogging — which is only incipient at present — will be a consequence of its production process.”   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/implications-of-blogging/">∞</a></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-11-01T18:23:49+00:00"> <span class="month">Nov</span><br/> <span class="day">1</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-36028 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on FoodPress and Nokia" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/foodpress-and-nokia/#comments"> <span class="count">8</span> </a> <p>Two fun launches today: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://foodpress.com/">FoodPress</a> is a new collection of the best WordPress food writing in the world, right now from .com only. Don’t visit if you’re hungry. <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918im_/http://s.ma.tt/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" class="wp-smiley"/> Second, we’ve launched the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://nokia.wordpress.org/">WordPress mobile app for Nokia</a> and it’s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://store.ovi.com/content/57192">in their Ovi store</a>. <strong>Update:</strong> And a bonus, check out the slick new design on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://akismet.com/">Akismet</a> that just launched.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/foodpress-and-nokia/">∞</a></p> </div> <div class="post-35912 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides entry-content"> <div class="single-dashed"></div> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on John Medina in SF Tomorrow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/john-medina-in-sf-tomorrow/#comments"> <span class="count">1</span> </a> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://brainrules.net/">John Medina, the author of one of my favorite books <cite>Brain Rules</cite></a>, is going to be at Automattic’s office tomorrow (Tuesday the 2nd) at 5 PM to have some after-work drinks and give a short talk. We’ve reserved some seats for the SF WordPress community to come by, and we even have free copies of his books for the first 30 people to show up. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://johnmedina.eventbrite.com/">RSVP is required, so register here</a>. Hope to see a few of you guys there!   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/john-medina-in-sf-tomorrow/">∞</a></p> </div> <div class="post-35910 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides entry-content"> <div class="single-dashed"></div> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Jane Kim Again" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/jane-kim-again/#comments"> <span class="count">8</span> </a> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2004/10/jane-kim/">I first posted about Jane Kim in 2004</a>, on my first visit to San Francisco. Fast-forward 6 years and she’s President of the School Board and going for District 6 Supervisor in tomorrow’s elections. If you’re in San Francisco, or know someone cool who is, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://janekim.org/">check out her website and keep her in mind at the polls tomorrow</a>. Tomorrow will also be my first time voting in person instead of by mail, which I expect to be annoying but worth it <strong>Update: And she won!</strong>   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/11/jane-kim-again/">∞</a></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-10-29T13:19:53+00:00"> <span class="month">Oct</span><br/> <span class="day">29</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-35914 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-gallery entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on F.ounders Camp in Dublin" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/f-ounders-camp-in-dublin/#comments"> <span class="count">3</span> </a> <div class="img-container"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/f-ounders-camp-in-dublin/"> <img width="250" height="166" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918im_/http://s.ma.tt/files/2010/10/MCM_3942-250x166.jpg" class="attachment-matt2010-gallery-thumbnail" alt="MCM_3942" title="MCM_3942"/> </a> </div> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/f-ounders-camp-in-dublin/">F.ounders Camp in Dublin</a></h2> <div class="img-text"> <p>I attended the F.ounders Camp in Dublin, Ireland put on by Paddy Cosgrave. It included a lot of great folks from both sides of the pond, including Jack Dorsey and Michael Birch pictured here in this album.</p> <p>This album contains <strong>108 items</strong>.</p> </div> <br style="clear:both;"/><br/><br/> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-10-20T14:35:07+00:00"> <span class="month">Oct</span><br/> <span class="day">20</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-35908 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides tag-press entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Mashable Interview" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/mashable-interview/#comments"> <span class="count">4</span> </a> <p>Sarah Kessler at Mashable did an interview with me she’s posted under the title <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://mashable.com/2010/10/20/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-interview/">WordPress Founder on the Key to Open Source Success</a>. We talk about capitalism, IPOs, how the internet has changed, and Open Source.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/mashable-interview/">∞</a></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-10-19T23:31:08+00:00"> <span class="month">Oct</span><br/> <span class="day">19</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-35906 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Adobe on WP" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/adobe-on-wp/#comments"> <span class="count">19</span> </a> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/10/18/adobe-migrates-to-wordpress/">Adobe Migrates to WordPress</a>, switching 1,200 blogs from Movable Type.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/adobe-on-wp/">∞</a></p> </div> <div class="post-35902 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides tag-automattic entry-content"> <div class="single-dashed"></div> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Automattic Becomes a Domain Registrar" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/registrar/#comments"> <span class="count">71</span> </a> <p>As <a title="I think these guys were the first to pick up the story" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://domainincite.com/wordpress-com-becomes-a-domain-name-registrar/">some folks have noticed already</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://automattic.com/">Automattic</a> is now a “real” domain registrar (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.iana.org/assignments/registrar-ids/registrar-ids.xml">ID #1531</a>). This has been a goal of mine for several years now, chiefly because I am a bit of a domain collector myself and I’ve never been completely satisfied with the domain buying or management experience on any of the usual players. Second, custom domains are a popular feature on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a> and should become even more popular with some changes we’re introducing this month and it’ll be good to be able to provide a fully integrated experience for our users there. It’ll be a few months while we build all the tools necessary to begin taking advantage of our registrar status so in the meantime we’ll continue to use Godaddy, who has been an excellent partner.   <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/registrar/">∞</a></p> </div> </article><article> <div class="datedot"> <abbr class="published" title="2010-10-17T02:29:07+00:00"> <span class="month">Oct</span><br/> <span class="day">17</span> </abbr> </div> <div class="post-35901 post type-post status-publish format-default hentry category-asides entry-content"> <a class="entry-comment-count" title="Comments on Price of Aid" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://ma.tt/2010/10/price-of-aid/#comments"> <span class="count">15</span> </a> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125221918/http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2010/10/11/101011crat_atlarge_gourevitch">Disturbing but worthwhile article in the New Yorker</a> about how humanitarian aid can prolong and intensify conflict and strife. 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