Category Archives: Blogging

WordPress and your Problems at MooseCamp!

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Lloyd

Bloggers and problems enter, only bloggers exit!
Friday, Feb 22, day 1 of the 4th annual Northern Voice including an “internet bootcamp” for people new to blogging, Facebook, podcasting, wikis, and more. It is an awesome logging conference being held again … Continue reading →

Also posted in Collaborating, Open Source, WordPress | Tagged Blogging, Chris Lott, Conference, David Peralty, Dâ€™Arcy Norman, Duane Storey, EDU Bloggers, Jim Groom, Joshua McKenty, Lorraine Murphy, Matt Mullenweg, MooseCamp, Northern Voice, nv08, Rebecca Bollwitt, Richard Eriksson, Tim Bray, UBC, unconference, WordPress, WordPress and Your Problems, WordPress and your Problems at MooseCamp | 9 Comments

Movable Type to support Pingback!

Posted on February 10, 2008 by Lloyd

I just read with interest Movable Type Product Manager, the fantastic Byrne Reese’s “Implementing Ping Back for Movable Type“. This is fantastic and long overdue!
This is good news for all bloggers. Someday soon trackbacks can be retired.

| Tagged Blogging, Byrne Reese, linkback, Movable Type, Pingback, protocol, specification, TrackBack, WordPress | 11 Comments

Matt Mullenweg Keynoting at Northern Voice!

Posted on February 9, 2008 by Lloyd

My boss, the Ma.tt in Matt is keynoting Northern Voice in Vancouver, Saturday February 23th! The title of his talk is “Blogging & Social Media: Where do we go from here?”

| Tagged Automattic, Bloggers, Blogging, Darren Barefoot, Matt Mullenweg, Northern Voice, Northern Voice 2008, Social Media, Tickets, Travis Smith, vancouver, WordPress, WordPress.com | 3 Comments

“So we asked some bloggers”

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Lloyd

I really enjoyed seeing in 2007 an ever increasing number of people self-identify as bloggers and giving their own meaning to the term. I’m looking forward to even more diverse and expressive uses of blog, blogging, and blogger in 2008.
This … Continue reading →

| Tagged blog, Bloggers, Blogging, English language, language, Rosie Oâ€™ Donnell | 2 Comments

WordPress.com Happiness Engineer For Hire

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Lloyd

Matt linked to our Happiness Engineer job posting:
Our software and services are far from perfect, and when things go wrong people arenâ€™t shy about contacting us asking for help. We consider the support side of the user experience to be … Continue reading →

Also posted in Automattic, Collaborating, Consuming, Flock, WordPress, WordPress.com | Tagged Automattic Job Posting, blogging support, computer support, distributed team, forum support, open source job, remote support, remote tech support, remote technical support, technical support, wordpress job posting, wordpress.com job posting, Work From Anywhere, Work From Home | 6 Comments

Allow people to delete their comments?

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Lloyd

There has been an interesting discussion on WordPress.com about whether people should be allowed to delete comments they have left.

Also posted in WordPress, WordPress.com | 17 Comments

Why does WordPress treat spam comments nicer than other moderated comments?

Posted on August 9, 2007 by Lloyd

I think I just accidentally deleted a comment in WordPress moderation. The irony struck me, that if I had accidentally marked it as spam, then I could have rescued it from the Spam queue.
WordPress lead developer Mark Jaquith has proposed … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress | 11 Comments

Missing Ingredient in WordCamp Secret Sauce Found

Posted on July 22, 2007 by Lloyd

Lorelle.

Also posted in Collaborating, WordPress | 5 Comments

WordCamp 2007 Videos on UHF

Posted on July 21, 2007 by Lloyd

I have had the pleasure of spending some of my time sitting with John “One Man’s Blog, Specialization is for Insects” Pozadzides today. He is the person of the hour, or will be, recording WordCamp 2007.
July 23rd Update: the brilliant … Continue reading →

Also posted in Collaborating, Community, WordPress | 6 Comments