By Michelle V. Rafter on September 23, 2009
(Updated with additional info @ 2:11 p.m. 9/23/09) To say Matt Mullenweg loves WordPress is to state the obvious. Mullenweg created the widely used blogging software and runs Automattic, the San Francisco company that offers it as a free platform or a software app you can use to run a self-hosted blog. (Disclaimer: I use [...]
Posted in Blogs, Technology | Tagged blog software, Matt Mullenweg, WordCamp, WordCampPortland, WordPress |
By Michelle V. Rafter on May 27, 2009
A funny thing happened on the way to compiling this list of digital media trendsetters. I’d put out a call to writers and editors on LinkedIn asking for names of industry folks I should include. But instead of news industry luminaries, I kept getting social media trailblazers. Wait a minute, I wanted to say, you [...]
Posted in Media Business | Tagged Alan Mutter, Arianna Huffington, Biz Stone, Chris Brogan, digital media trendsetters, hyperlocal news, Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, Matt Mullenweg, people to watch in digital media, Peter Shankman, Sree Sreenivasan, Tina Brown |
By Michelle V. Rafter on May 14, 2008
If you have a blog on WordPress.com, you may have noticed a new feature called Possibly Related that links posts from other blogs in the Comments section of posts on your blog. The crew at Automattic introduced the feature in late April to add an element of social networking to blogging. At least that’s what [...]
Posted in Blogs, Social Networks, Web 2.0 | Tagged Automattic, blog tools, Matt Mullenweg, Possibly Related, WordPress.com |