Category: Automattic

My fortune cookie from tonight’s Chinese take out:

There are no tinfoil hats around my house, but I did recently look into the mobile phone radiation issue. My daughter just turned 13, and she was apparently one of the only kids in her grade without a cell phone. This is one of the reasons why: It’s from a University of Utah study (pdf)…

We recently held our biennial Green Street block party. We block off our street, bring out lots of food, bikes, and jumpies and get to know our neighbors. The Russian consulate is on our block and they treat everyone to blinis with caviar and iced Vodka. This year they added a translator which helped greatly…

It’s been too long since the last car made an appearance on this blog. Here are a couple that I’ve recently enjoyed:

Automattic has acquired a cool new service called After the Deadline. Raphael and Matt have the story.

On August 27 I’ll be speaking in Zurich about my Silicon Valley startup and VC experiences. Thank you to Myke at Doodle and the Swiss Open Systems User Group for organizing and inviting me.

Very excited that Paul Kim will be joining us at Automattic. He did great work for Mozilla and Firefox, and I’m looking forward to working with him on our many projects and services.

On Bandcamp, albums outsell tracks 2 to 1.

My favorite book so far this summer: Shop Class as Soulcraft.

WordPress news: WordPress 2.8 was released last night and iThemes is now offering their paid WordPress themes under the GPL license.

I like this picture that my daughter took the other day:

My normally very calm and collected wife almost went postal at an Apple store yesterday (having to do with trying to get her iPhone fixed at the annoyingly named genius bar). I can relate.

The New York Times covered the Story of Stuff today:

Thomas Benkö recently interviewed me for a Swiss newspaper.

A great post by Matt about how P2 has changed our communication style at Automattic. P2 is a WordPress theme. I’m currently using it on this blog as well, though it was originally developed for group communications.