“For WordPress we’re trying to set up a community that will be around 10 to 30 years from now, one that’s independent from the whims of the market. My role is somewhat like Linus for Linux or Shuttleworth for Ubuntu, affectionately referred to as BDFL, and it’s my responsibility to meet as many users as possible and direct the software in a way that reflects their interest. Last year I probably met 5,000 or 6,000 WordPress users, about half of them who make their living from it. We want to be like Google, eBay, Amazon — they all enable other people to make far more money than the company captures. That’s ultimately what we’re trying to do, we’re trying to create a movement.
fieldnotes
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June 20th, 2009
aweissman
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June 19th, 2009
aweissman“Chartbeat is the crack cocaine of graph & data addictionJesse Robins, continuing some sort of theme, wherein people want to use our product and get loaded
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June 19th, 2009
aweissman“I know I should be more professional, but my first thought was “How can I turn this into a drinking game?!digitalmediaminute, in a review of Chartbeat
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June 17th, 2009
aweissman
eyewitness accounts are tricky. three people reporting one phrase in near-realtime. none agree on wording. simultaneously trivial and significant.
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June 17th, 2009
aweissman
Tweetdeck brings Techcrunch to it’s knees
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June 12th, 2009
aweissman“We all know the difference when you go to Amazon and you just push your little thing and it’s bought, paid for, delivered, billed, et cetera., instantly, and how much that has enabled or how much that has made the difference between just browsing and buying…that little thing, that in fact you scroll it, you do it, it comes, everything else is taken care of, is the answer to what’s going to happen on the Internet
“push your little thing”?!?!?!?!?
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June 12th, 2009
aweissman“Capital, once freed, may not go to building huge new ventures. It may go to building small new ventures.
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June 5th, 2009
aweissman
“Normally, I’m against big things. I think the world’s going to be solved by millions of small things.”
Pete Seeger
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June 4th, 2009
aweissman“Many start-ups, he said, aim to ‘go global’ to capture a wider market. However, given their limited resources, they would do better to tackle a country or region first and roll out their plans well, before setting their sights on expanding.
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June 4th, 2009
aweissman“Increasingly, the stories that come across our radar — news about a plane crash, a feisty Op-Ed, a gossip item — will arrive via the passed links of the people we follow. Instead of being built by some kind of artificially intelligent software algorithm, a customized newspaper will be compiled from all the articles being read that morning by your social network.
