John Battelles interview with Matt Mullenweg in Austin Texas. The discussion around the topic of Blogging being dead was pretty good. Also interesting is Matts thoughts on scaling advertising. What are your comments on the interview?
Matt On The WP-Community Podcast
If you haven’t been listening to the WordPress Community Podcast, you ought to tune into the previous episode as well as the upcoming episode slated for Tuesday, August 17th as both feature an interview with Matt Mullenweg. In the interview, Matt talks about the changes that have taken place so far thanks to the various teams working on making the surrounding WordPress experience better, WordPress 3.1, Automattic product line and WordCamps. The interview was pre-recorded so if you show up in the chatroom on Tuesday, don’t expect your questions to be read and answered on the air.
Where’s Matt – July 2010
No, this isn’t an episode of WordPress Weekly but I am using the podcast feed to publish this interview. Once a month, I get in touch with Matt Mullenweg to find out where he’s at and what he’s been up to. In this months edition, we talked about the climax of the Thesis/GPL debate. We also talk about WordPress.org improvements, bbPress as a plugin, progress report on some of the 3.org projects, and much more. Enjoy the interview.
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Before you listen to this interview, particularly with the discussion surrounding the GPL and Thesis, you should watch/listen to the following interview conducted by Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com. It’s a great look inside of the arguments from both sides.
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Matt Mullenweg Named Son Of Gutenberg
This is the first time I’ve seen anyone refer to Matt as the son of Gutenberg but it seems like a good fit. The Big Money takes a look at how WordPress has been able to democratize publishing and how the software has been able to change the way people publish the written word. For anyone wanting to know an overview of how Automattic makes their money, it shapes up to be 40% upgrades, and the remaining 60% is split between enterprise services and ads. It’s great to see that even after seven years, Matt is still on a mission.
“If we can democratize publishing,” Mullenweg says with his idealism firmly in front, “if we can make these communication mechanisms just completely effortless and ubiquitous, the world becomes a better place, and that’s very motivating for everyone.”
Out of curiosity, I wonder how many people in the WPTavern audience publish content on one or more blogs consistently? If so, what is your motivation?
WPWeekly Episode 101 – 3.0 RC 3
In this short and sweet episode of WordPress weekly, we discuss how WordPress can control missiles, the release of RC3, and WordPress 2.9 surpassing the 10 million download mark. Although not related to WordPress, I provide an update as to what has been going on in my personal life. Sometimes, I feel that it’s best if we are all on the same page. Last but not least is the introduction of a new monthly segment on the show called Where’s Matt? Once a month, I’ll be getting in touch with Matt to ask him where he’s at, what he’s been up to and a few questions regarding recent news throughout the community.
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Joining me on June 19th will be Lisa Sabin-Wilson to discuss a new project she is working on. From what I know, it involves a new book.
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Matt Weighs In On Cloud Marketing
ReadWriteWeb has published a short and sweet interview with Matt Mullenweg regarding cloud computing. When asked if WordPress.com was hosted on a grid or in a traditional data center, Matt responded with:
“That’s a silly question, like asking whether Facebook is a cloud computing environment,” Most ‘clouds’ besides Amazon’s are just marketing BS. WordPress.com is a collection of many physical servers across multiple data centers to create a scalable, resilient environment for our customers. You could call it a grid, or cloud, we just call it service.”
Pretty cool to see Matt give the straight talk. As for the term cloud, I can’t think of a concrete definition of what that means other than what Amazon and other businesses have stated. So perhaps it really is marketing BS?
At the end of the article, you get a sense that sometimes, it’s just better to do things on your own without relying on a cloud or service provider.