(live blogged) During some preliminary technical issues … Jane says, “I can feel the nerdiness vibes increase ….” And then checks her blog and sees that she just won another bloggy award. Someone twitters that he doesn’t know a single person at Wordcamp. Guy next to me searches Twitter and finds his tweet. I follow him. Then Jane points out that the guy who sent … more »

For a company that recently secured $29 million in funding, has grown from nonexistence to worldwide popularity in just four years, and which has the reputation of being the platform for serious bloggers, it’s kind of bold for me to call attention to its biggest mistake in a post. But I’m convinced that it’s a huge miscalculation on the part of Automattic (the company that … more »

I attended my first WordPress meetup yesterday. Here’s a 20-second video that Brad Baldwin of Rocky Mountain Voices took at the event. My wife and I appear at the very end, engaged in conversation with a couple of seasoned bloggers who make their living from a quotations page that gets 200,000 hits a day. (By the way, I found this video on Janet Meiners’ site … more »

Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, will be at a WordPress meetup in Salt Lake City next Saturday, February 2. Details are as follows: Saturday, February 2, 2008 12:00 PM Taj India Restaurant 3540 South State St Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 See the original announcement or the event page. I’m looking forward to this opportunity, as I’ve never been to a WordPress meetup.