Siobhan McKeown interviewed Om Malik for her pending book on WordPress, and came away with some interesting insight from Om that I think is valuable for any of us that take part in online conversations.
If you’re looking for some good, recent podcasts, you might want to check out this interview with Brad Williams over at Robojuice. It’s an hour-long show focused on security and the question of whether WordPress is secure enough for Microsoft. The latest Mastermind.fm podcast includes Karim Marucchi of Crowd Favorite. Karim always has an interesting story…
Natasha Golinsky has launched a Facebook group for women who own creative agencies: Management Code: Management Skills for Female Creative Agency Owners.
Well, data is awesome and this is pretty good data. GoDaddy announced what they are calling the Hot 100 that highlights the top 100 trending themes and plugins. The list updates net gains in active installs, so it’s a trend measurement, versus total active installs or downloads. That’s what accounts for some of the large variations between…
Drawing on a gender gap at WCUS noticed by Women in WP, Rob Howard thinks there might be a “self-employment penalty” on conference attendance that disproportionately affects women. There’s a lot of speculation in this article, but it’s a subject worth deeper analysis. Whatever the cause, a 2:1 male-to-female ratio in WCUS attendees (or people…
Daniel Espinoza tells a wonderful, and extremely personal, story of how he decided it was time to sell the rights to his most popular commercial plugins. Daniel shares that he was making $4,000-$5,000 per month of recurring revenue on these products, and also what influenced him decide to sell them outright. I absolutely love stories…
Ben Thompson does excellent analysis. In his latest post he talks about the big problems facing journalism and publishing online. Here’s my favorite part: It is easy to feel sorry for publishers: before the Internet most were swimming in money, and for the first few years online it looked like online publications with lower costs…
