Matt Thomas, our brilliant web designer on team Automattic, has been very busy working on WordPress 2.5 .
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Matt Mullenweg Keynoting at Northern Voice!
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?”
Dollars, Forex, Stocks, Gambling
The US dollar is down again since yesterday relative to the Canadian dollar. I hope this is a temporary pause before it continues its “correction” from the painful-for-me long time lows. I don’t know why I let myself continue to be surprised that investing is just a more sophisticated and dignified form of gambling.
We Raised $29.5 Million!
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 “we” in the title, I mean I have absolutely nothing to do with the financial matters, so don’t ask.
This development is, of course, a little distracting at the moment, but that will quickly fade.
The fundamentals haven’t changed. We have good, popularly, highly regarded solutions to important, interesting problems. There are many challenges we want to continue to refine our solutions to and many areas we have just started to explore — so many things are too hard, and we know we can help. Most importantly we will stay focused on relationships between real people and being dynamic to your needs — which is really what the web and particularly blogging are all about.
I’m as excited to working for Automattic today as the day I started. Has it really only been just over a year? My job description, like all job descriptions, has changed a lot in this short, and I’m sure it will continue to evolve.
I now spend about half my time working with Raanan, Barry, and Michael and the “major media organization, from the NY Times, WSJ, CNN, Fox, Time, People, and more…” the emerging ones like Giga Omni, Gawker Media’s Gizmodo Live, Blog Talk Radio, Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios and I Can Has Cheezburger.
The rest of my time is focused on participating in WordPress.org.
I love the diversity of challenges my roles expose me to. I love that WordPress is a near universal solution for online publishing, empowering the personal publishers and the major media organizations.
But most of all I love the people. Bloggers and open source participants are the among the most wonderful people I have ever met!
But along the way you still have to feel with some stinker technical challenges and personal conflicts, and that is where my favorite Automattic part comes into play. Every member of the Automattic team I learn from every day and every one of them I would love to call friend.
WordPress 2.3 Heroes
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?
Todd Cochrane Doesn’t Like MT4′s Podcasting Support, and What That Really Means For WordPress
Todd Cochrane who wrote the book on podcasting, Podcasting: Do It Yourself Guide, wrote a harsh post about Movable Type 4 not living up to its announced podcasting support claims. The article begins:
From today forward I will no longer recommend Movable Type as a viable new media blogging / podcasting platform. I will recommend WordPress to any and all that ask my advice.
Todd elaborates in the comments on the experience in WordPress that has contributed to his conversion:
Wordpress does have native support when you are publishing a post you will see add media at the bottom of the page.
If you add your media there and hit publish the media will be included as a enclosure in your RSS feed.
While you will not have all the fancy itunes tags you can manually edit your rss template and add that data to be included.
To make it easy the podpress plugin makes it easy for you to add the itunes data to the feed.
Another thing to consider is that at least you can publish a podcast with WordPress today. You cannot say the same with MovableType Version 4 it is simply not possible to publish a podcast with the current version of the blogging software.
Welcome to the team Todd!
WordPress Google Summer of Code Students!
Ten students are being paid $4500 USD each to working on WordPress this summer!