Roy Scribner
Writer, WordPress hobbyist, GPS geek, outdoor enthusiast
Wordpress-comparison-infogaphic. Bloomberg TV Interview. 12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012. Lose your love handles; call your Mom more often; get that promotion – if you’re like many of us, you’re already thinking over some New Year’s resolutions that will make you a better “you” in 2012.
Software Designers～The People Behind the Code～（英語）：#33 Matthew Mullenweg, Founding Developer, WordPress; Founder, Automattic. The future of WordPress: Q&A with founder Matt Mullenweg. WordPress Founder Talks Version 3.2, Security, Google, and More. WordPress 3.2 recently launched with hopes of bringing a “faster and lighter” approach to the publishing platform. This launch marks the 15th major release of the open source platform and comes just 4 months after the launch of WordPress 3.1. The TimThumb Saga. Last week there was a serious flaw found in the code behind TimThumb, an image re-sizing library commonly used in premium themes.* Because the code is commonly embedded in themes it’s not easy to discretely update like it would be if the code were a plugin, and even when a theme is updated people are hesitant to update because they often customize theme code rather than making child themes, so if they were to overwrite their theme with a new version they’d lose their modifications.
That, combined with the severity of the flaw, means that this is one of the more serious issues in the WordPress ecosystem in a while, even more than normal because it wasn’t in core. It could have gone a lot of ways, but the incident brought out the best in the community. The core team sprang into action searching through the theme directory to inoculate any themes that contained the dangerous code. Community blogs quickly got the word out about the problem so people were aware of it. Matt Mullenweg: WordCamp San Diego 2011 Town Hall. Home » WordCampTV »WordCamp San Diego 2011 Matt Mullenweg: WordCamp San Diego 2011 Town Hall Matt Mullenweg: WordCamp San Diego 2011 Town Hall <p>JavaScript required to play <a hreflang="en" type="video/mp4" href=" Mullenweg: WordCamp San Diego 2011 Town Hall</a>.
</p> A New Home for the WordPress Trademark. The Way I Work: Matt Mullenweg, Leading Your Company Article - Inc. Article. As a high school student, Matt Mullenweg worked on open-source software projects in his bedroom.
Seven years later, he still does most of his work from home. Mullenweg, 25, is the founder of Automattic, the company behind the open-source blogging tool WordPress and a handful of other software projects. WordPress.com powers 12 million blogs, including those of The New York Times, which invested in Mullenweg's company last year. Although Automattic's headquarters is within walking distance of Mullenweg's San Francisco apartment, he rarely visits the place. Instead, he spends his days either traveling the world to meet WordPress fanatics or holed up in his home office, where he often blasts Jay-Z and writes software code into the wee hours. Wordpress founder endorses distributed workforce. Companies should move away from self-destructive, factory models of work where people are rewarded for arriving early and staying late, says Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress.
Speaking at the Guardian's Activate summit, he described the distributed working practices of WordPress.com's parent company Automattic (of which he is also president), which are inspired by the Open Source movement. WordPress.com receives more than 340 million unique visitors per month, with 100,000 new websites set up each day. The Evolution of My Complex Relationship with Blogging.
At the end of 2005, about seven months into blogging, I wrote: “I did not anticipate how much effort writing this blog would take. I also did not anticipate how much I would enjoy doing it.” That pretty much summarized my feelings. In May of 2006, a year into it, I expressed similar feelings: “I continue to enjoy writing the blog, much more so than I originally anticipated I would. Whitman news, delivered. » Personal blogging adapts to changing social media.
Illustration: MaryAnne Bowen Back in 1999, just as blogs were beginning to appear in the news, Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com offered a definition for this new form of media.
“Weblogs, typically, are personal Web sites operated by individuals who compile chronological lists of links to stuff that interests them, interspersed with information, editorializing and personal asides,” he wrote. Justin Hall, widely considered to be one of the earliest personal bloggers, started a blog in 1994 while attending Swarthmore College. “I was 19 and I wanted to share the amazing shit I was finding on the web with other people who might not know what was out there,” he wrote in an email interview. Although his blog started as a collection of links to things he liked, he eventually started posting his poetry and personal writing.
Disruptive Blogging - Timothy Lee - Disruptive Economics. Beyond Blog Posts - A Guide to Innovative Content Types. Why Copying Other Bloggers Is Never Sustainable. The following is a guest post from Future Buzz community member Geoff Talbot.
If you’d like to contribute thinking here, please read the guidelines. The best place for an actor to search for their character is inside themselves. Some (the bad ones) work from the outside in, looking for some external source to copy, shape and mold. But their performance looks like a performance, a copy of something else and it loses it’s authenticity. Could the same be said of blogging? As the “Guest Blogging Rage” begins to build in popularity many bloggers are attempting to fill the pages on other more popular sites.
7 Mighty Ideas to Make Your Blog Post Standout. O.K, you conquered the Blogging mountain (finally) and started to write quality posts, only to see those often get ignored.
AOL In the Attention Business, Mobile Getting More Of It. The Noob Guide to Online Marketing (With Giant INFOGRAPHIC) “Get me to page 1 of Google, while emailing our customers a bi-weekly newsletter, engaging influencers on Twitter, maintaining a captive Facebook audience, capturing new leads, and putting out 3 blog posts a week.”
Harsh? Yes. Why Big Brands Won’t Advertise On Your Blog. Today at BlogWorld & New Media Expo, I’m giving a talk on brands and blogs.
More specifically, I’m hoping to help bloggers understand the world of marketing a bit more so they can better serve their audience and their own interests by knowing the differences between public relations, advertising, media buying and how they sometimes work together … and sometimes don’t. The end result, I hope, is that bloggers have a stronger understanding of why asking a public relations professional to buy an ad is misdirected, or why asking a big brand’s marketing manager to buy an ad is too. “Social Objects are the future of marketing.” WordPress & Google, Diverging? Young Entrepreneurs Offer Tips On Creating Effective Blogs - Resources.
Pearltrees > blog. Social curation finds an audience: Pearltrees reaches 10M pageviews. Aggregation Is Not Curation - There Is A Big Difference. Posted by Tom Foremski - November 2, 2010. Curation - The Third Web Frontier. Posted by Guest Writer - January 8, 2011. Gaining Authority in the Age of Digital Overload. Guest Post: Three Reasons Why Curation Is Not A Fad. Posted by Tom Foremski - May 27, 2011. In My Humble Opinion. Evolve Beyond Curation: Add Context, Lead Your Category. Turn Off the Social Media Noise. Are aggregation and curation journalism? Wrong question. What news must do. Is linking just polite, or is it a core value of journalism? Late last week, TechCrunch writer MG Siegler broke the news that Apple was buying an app-discovery service called Chomp — although he didn’t say where that news came from, just that it was a reliable source.
The Wall Street Journal reported the same news several hours later, confirmed by an Apple source, but didn’t link to Siegler, who then wrote a profanity-laced tirade criticizing the WSJ for its failure to include a link to him in its story (we at GigaOM, meanwhile, wrote about why the acquisition made sense for Apple, and credited TechCrunch with breaking the story). How Tumblr is Changing Journalism. Earlier this week we looked at the remarkable growth of Tumblr, a blogging and curation service that now gets over 12 billion page views per month. The Future of User Interfaces: Data Visualization. Is It Time to Rethink Website Navigation? Design View / Andy Rutledge - News Redux. Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users. The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS. Finding more high-quality sites in search. Improving the look of authorship in your search results. Recommend content across the web. Real-life sharing, rethought for the web.
Google+ Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part. Fat Pandas and Thin Content. Strategies for Dealing With Panda. More guidance on building high-quality sites. Measuring and tracking code quality. Prerendering in Chrome. Search engines come together for a richer web. Three Key Things Google Is Doing While We Focus on Google+ Improved handling of URLs with parameters. How To Implement Rel=Author. Pagination with rel=“next” and rel=“prev” Expanded and improved. Google Expanded Sitelinks: Optimize Opening Text in META Description Tag. 3.2, the plan: faster, lighter « WordPress Development Updates. Version 3.2. Version 3.2 Project Schedule « WordPress Development Updates. #17198 (New theme for 3.next.
Duster. 3.2 now available. Design in WordPress 3.2. WordPress 3.0 "Thelonious" Just another WordPress theme. Customizing the WordPress Twenty Ten Theme.