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Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.
Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on.
Environment plays a huge role in my ability to creatively focus and my mood - for better and worse.
It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.
Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.
You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing.
One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.
If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.
I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate.
My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit.
Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.
Some folks have suggested that, using WordPress, Prologue, and RSS, you could create a pretty effective distributed version of Twitter.
The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready.
There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
Simplicity can have a negative impact when it's the crude reduction of nuances beyond appreciation: a Matisse presented as a 16-color GIF.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.
I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.
130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?
People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.
I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output.
We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.
When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.
The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.
You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.
The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.
When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
Simperium seems like a genuine utility for our own apps, and for other people as a service. And Simplenote, as a product, I love, and it's just darn handy.
When there's no one you can point to, or when something goes wrong, it's your fault - that level of responsibility and accountability is pretty interesting.
Basically, if you believe in Moore's Law, and you believe that hosting is going to become more and more commoditized over time, not being a host is a good idea.
As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place.
As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.
Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.
I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad.
If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to work hard at the things that are hard. Otherwise you are just treading water.
A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own.
If you're going to quit your job to focus on an idea, you get overly attached to that idea because you had it, and it's the reason you quit your job. Plus, most ideas are bad.
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. That means every moment you're working on something without it being in the public it's actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world.
I think it's really important for the independent web to have a platform, and to the extent that WordPress can serve that role, I think it's a great privilege and responsibility.
From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.
It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.
While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too.