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  • Internet celebs on WordPress

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    We just went down the list of the top 25 internet celebrities according to Forbes and found that an impressive 1/3 of them are using WordPress: #1 celebrity LonelyGirl15, Jeff Jarvis, Amanda Congden, Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Jimmy Wales, Merlin Mann and Om Malik. Congrats!

  • In La Paz

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    The Automattic gang is spending the week in Mexico for our bi-annual company get-together. Would you buy a blog from these guys? Matt, Mike, Barry, Andy, Matt (hidden), Lloyd and Mark roaming the streets of Todos Santos. We’re staying at a bed and breakfast in La Paz, wifi is good, Arrachera is delicious and Wii…

  • Biodiesel progress report

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    After a couple of months and 1000 miles running my Landcruiser on biodiesel I have the following to report: Pros: Feels great to be driving on soybeans! Getting gas at SFbiofuels has been easy (very nice people there too) The car runs perfectly well and a little more quietly than on petrodiesel No more puffs…

  • Who is Kana?

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    I wasn’t planning on starting the new year with a complaint, but allow me to vent about Yahoo’s horrible customer support. I’ve been using Yahoo Music to load songs onto my iriver MP3 player. Until it stopped working last week. I followed all the instructions about re-acquiring DRM licenses and resetting various things. Nothing worked…

  • 5 things

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    Narendra tagged me to share 5 things about myself that few people know: When I was 10, my dream was to become a boat designer. When I was 13, I was asked to be in a TV commercial for a Swiss chocolate maker (Milka). I chickened out and didn’t do it. My first job during…

  • Christmas list

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    A peek into an 8 year old’s mind: That’s his Christmas list, focused on just the essentials: a laptop, a snowboard, a segway and a hamster.

  • Lots of stats

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    Check it out, we are now publishing lots of WordPress.com stats for anyone who is interested in how many signups, page views, new posts, embeds, etc we’re getting. I’d love to see other blogging services and web sites publish this kind of data (LiveJournal is the only one I know of that has been publishing…

  • VodPod launches

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    VodPod, a San Francisco startup where I’ve helped out a little as an advisor, has officially opened their doors today. Congrats! VodPod let’s you build video collections/groups. Videos can be uploaded by users or aggregated from other sites like YouTube or MetaCafe. They already have enthusiasts video groups forming around topics like birding and unicycling.…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part IV

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    It’s taken me a while, but I have finally made my transition to biodiesel! In the last installment I talked about picking up my diesel Land Rover in Port Hueneme and then getting it ready for the road. Well, something came up while it was in the shop getting fixed up. I had originally been…

  • KnowNow + WP = enterprise blogging

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    Fortune 500 companies are discovering WordPress. They are figuring out that blogging is a great tool for fostering more open and active collaboration with customers and between employees. This trend was anticipated in several places, including Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book Naked Conversations and a recent Forrester report on enterprise blogging by Charlene Li…

  • Le Monde moves to WordPress

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    Le Monde just relaunched their blogging services. Their several thousand blogs are now powered by WordPress (they used to be on TypePad). Lots of new WordPress blogs get created every day, but this installation is significant for a number of reasons. First off, Le Monde is the best known newspaper in France, they are highly…

  • Maya’s Mom

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    Maya’s Mom, a great new advice and community site for parents soft launched today. Ann (who started the company and has a daughter named Maya) blogs about it here. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting the team behind this startup because it’s a True Ventures investment and I will be helping out as an adviser.…

  • So I signed up for PayPerPost

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    After all the hoopla about PayPerPost, I wanted to form my own opinion. I opened an account, scanned their offers from advertisers and picked one more or less at random. It was from a site called WeddingStrategies. They offered me $10 for writing a blog post about them with at least 300 words. Their instructions…

  • MacBook trouble

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    Only a few months old and my MacBook is already misbehaving. Just like Liz, and apparently many others, I’m having random shut down problems. The computer just shuts down out of the blue, as if someone pulled a power cord. Highly annoying.

  • Calling all WordPress consultants

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    I get several requests per week from people who are looking for help with WordPress related projects. Things like designing a new blog template, developing a custom plugin, or migrating existing blogs over to WordPress. In response, we’ve started to compile a list of professional WordPress consultants who offer these types of services.

  • Datacenter in a container

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    This is cool – Sun is putting data centers into shipping containers that can be easily transported and located anywhere: