Category Archives: Work

Measurements That Matter on WordPress.com

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Lloyd

I know what measurements matter for WordPress.com, because they’re right there on the front page. Right now in the top left of “Freshly Pressed” it reads:
The best of 252,029 bloggers, 223,676 new posts, 327,799 comments, & 54,240,782 words today on … Continue reading →

Also posted in Blogging, Collaborating, Communicating, WordPress.com | Tagged Blogging, Inspirations, measurements, statistics, WordPress.com | 1 Comment

Three’s Company

Posted on October 9, 2009 by Lloyd

“Yourself, plus two others. With only two, each person needs to be aware of all the details in case the other person needs to take a break / gets run over by a bus / whatever. With three, the load … Continue reading →

Also posted in Collaborating, Communicating, Opinion | Tagged Bootup Labs, Boris Mann, collaborating, Founders, Moderating, Negotiating, Partnership, Weak Links, Weakest Link | 3 Comments

A 20-minute Snooze in the Office

Posted on June 25, 2009 by Lloyd

In “The Way I Work, annotated” my boss Matt Mullenweg shares additional insights and linkifies his Inc. Magazine’s “The Way I Work” column (July issue). Both versions are excellent reads, but the post at ma.tt benefits from Matt answering a … Continue reading →

Also posted in Automattic | Tagged Automattic, Full Engagement, Managing Energy, Matt Mullenweg, nap, rest, sleep, WordPress | 8 Comments

WordPress.com’s Job System – Cron for PHP in Distributed Environment

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Lloyd

Colleague Demitrious Kelly (meech, Apokalyptik) earlier this month open sourced the (Unix process) jobs system he (primarily) has been developing for WordPress.com. Not that I really understand it, but “jobs” is described as
A fast, distributed, horizontally scalable system built upon … Continue reading →

Also posted in Automattic | Tagged cron-like, Open Source, php, WordPress, WordPress.com | Leave a comment

WordPress.com Still Blocked in China

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Lloyd

I’ve seen some reports lately that “WordPress is blocked in China”, including some Mashable articles. To clarify, it’s WordPress.com that is blocked, not all sites that run self-hosted WordPress.
Mashable’s “China Blocks Twitter (And Almost Everything Else)” seems to suggest that the … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress, WordPress.com | Tagged AFP, Censorship, China, Chinese Government, Dangerous Journalism, Great Firewall of China, Guy Newey, Journalism, Matt Mullenweg, Public Security Bureau, Reporters without Borders, Reporting, RSF, Stan Schroeder, Tor, Tor Project, WordPress, WordPress.com | 5 Comments

Stuff White Victoria People Like

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Lloyd

Stuff White People Like is coming to Victoria!
Victoria is one of the stops on the book tour. Get your copy of the fresh minted book signed by Christian Lander at Chapters on August 10th, 2:00 p.m. He’ll be in Vancouver … Continue reading →

Also posted in Blogging, Victoria, WordPress.com | Tagged Book Tour, Christian Lander, Humor, Stuff White People Like, Victoria, WordPress.com | Leave a comment

Anderson Cooper blogging at WordPress.com

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Lloyd

Yesterday, Anderson Cooper 360° Blog relaunched on our WordPress.com. CNN was one of our first VIPublishers and has more than 40 blogs with us — their team is among my favorite to work with.

Also posted in WordPress.com | Tagged Anderson Cooper, Anderson Cooper 360Â° Blog, CNN, David Reisner, Google Blogger, Snap Shots, The Political Ticker, VIPublishers, WordPress.com | 5 Comments

We Raised $29.5 Million!

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Lloyd

Matt, now Ma.tt, and Toni have respectively written “Act Two” and “Automattic fundraising” about us, Automattic, raising a $29.5 million USD round of financing today. Our friend Om has a head start on journalistic coverage with “WordPress.com Creator Raises $29.5M“.
By … Continue reading →

Also posted in Automattic | Tagged 38 Studios, Automattic, Barry Abrahamson, Blog Talk Radio, Bloggers, Blogging, closed funding round, CNN, Curt Schilling, Fox, Gawker Media Gizmodo Live, Giga omni, I Can Has Cheezburger, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Adams, NY Times, Om Malik, open source participants, People, Raanan Bar-Cohen, series b, startup funding, Team Automattic, Time, Toni Schneider, WordPress, WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Work | 5 Comments

“photomatt: who’s eagleclaw?”

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Lloyd

I had a great big smile yesterday when eagleclaw entered our chat channel. Eagleclaw is Hailin Wu, a new member of the Automattic family.

Also posted in Automattic | Tagged colleague, coworker, Hailin Wu, inspirational people, Matt Mullenweg, team, Work Culture | 1 Comment

WordPress 2.3 Heroes

Posted on October 30, 2007 by Lloyd

September 24, 2007 we released WordPress 2.3, and a little over a month later, this past Friday, we released WordPress 2.3.1.
Yesterday , we, WordPress won Best Open Source Social Networking CMS.
Who are we?

Also posted in Automattic, WordPress | Tagged Automattic, blog engine, blog software, Blogging, Blogging Software, collaborating, Community, Open Source, participating, personal publishing, product development, publishing, Software Development, WordPress, WordPress 2.3, WordPress 2.3.1, Wordpress Release | 5 Comments