Archive for April, 2007
AllThingsD.com launches (powered by WordPress)
Allthingsd.com, a great looking new site by famous Walt Street Journal journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg launched today. We’re particularly excited about this project because they chose WordPress MU for their publishing platform and we are VIP hosting the site for them on our WordPress.com server infrastructure. The site includes four separate blogs (including one by John Paczkowski of Good Morning Silicon Valley fame), lots of video, guest bloggers, and free access to a couple of years worth of Walt Mossberg WSJ columns (I think this is a first).
A great team was assembled to build this site. The design is by Mule Design, implementation by Alex King and Adam Tow, hosting by Automattic and project management by the Allthingsd and Dow Jones teams as well as Brian Oberkirch.
A moment in time
Catchy name for a party, isn’t it 
Sad statistic
Last night, I went to a small Human Rights Watch event (check them out if you are looking to help out a good cause - they are truly working to make the world a better place). Here’s a saddening statistic that someone mentioned: Apparently there are 12 documented cases of children serving life prison sentences without the possibility of parole outside the United States. Inside the US, there are over 2,000 such cases.
60s
Diane, Mary Ellen and Brigitte went to a 60s party.
Your blog lives here
Barry explains our recent datacenter expansion.
Lots of spam blogs on Blogger
According to a WebMasterWorld study, 75% of blogs on Google’s Blogger are spam and 68% of all sites on the .info domain are spam as well. If true, that’s kind of depressing. Meanwhile, on WordPress.com we continue to shut down spam blogs as soon as we find them.
No more MacBook for me
Enough has gone wrong with my MacBook in the last few months that I doubt I’d ever buy another one. First I had random shut down problems. Then the built in webcam stopped working. Now I have a dead battery. All this within the first 9 months of owning it. The final straw: Apple told me to go into the store to pick up a new battery. After waiting for over an hour despite having an appointment, they confirmed that the battery was dead, then told me they were out of batteries and put me on the phone with customer support for another maddening 20 minutes to order a replacement one. Bleh.
