September 2009
4 posts
RSS Links Widget →
The Happiness Engineers had a great time in London last week. We worked on some cool projects and came up with a lot of great ideas. We’ll bring more updates to you over the coming weeks…
After the Deadline Live for WP.com →
Last week you guys published 1.4 million new blog posts, but you only ran the spell checker about 204 thousand times. Ahem. The two possible explanations for this are that we’re all…
RSS in the Clouds →
Clouds from my trip to WordCamp Dallas
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and it’s a way for people to subscribe to updates to your blog using a client like Google Reader…
August Wrap-Up →
I’m back in San Francisco after a trip to London for the Happiness Engineer meetup. It’s serious business, but the group has managed to have a little fun along the way.
Our…
August 2009
6 posts
Support Hours and Updates →
In the coming week, the Support crew (seen among the lovely faces here) will be meeting in London to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the resources you need. While us Happiness…
New Theme: Sandbox 1.6.1 →
Sandbox 1.6.1 is now available to all WordPress.com blogs.
Alongside Sandbox 1.6.1 you’ll also find the older Sandbox versions. We’ve left them intact. If you’ve been using them, don’t worry,…
WP.me — shorten your links →
Check out this address:
http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten
If you visit it, you’ll end up right back here. The nice thing about it is that it’s a short link, about 70% smaller than the …
SoundCloud →
We are big fans of SoundCloud, a really useful service that is part Flickr for music, part professional music collaboration hub. Artists such as Beck, Moby and Sonic Youth now use the…
New Theme: iNove →
iNove by mg12 is one of the top themes used for self-hosted WordPress blogs, and a commonly requested addition to our offerings here on WordPress.com. We’re always doing what we can to…
July Wrap-Up →
We kicked off July with an open vote on new media features. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress.
Later in the month we…
July 2009
6 posts
Archives Shortcode →
You publish a lot of quality content (trust us, we know). And so we understand that making it easily accessible to your faithful readers is very important for you as a blogger. Sure, our …
Gravatar Widget →
Say goodbye to messing around with HTML in a Text widget just to get an “About Me” in your sidebar. With the new Gravatar widget it only takes a few seconds to achieve this and stamp…
PollDaddy ratings and polls →
PollDaddy joined the Automattic team last year, and we have been working on adding some of our great features directly into the WordPress platform ever since.
Ratings
The PollDaddy rating…
Vote for Media Features →
Here at WordPress.com, we always run the most recent version of the WordPress open source software. In addition, we do custom development so that we can offer features not included in the open…
June Wrap-Up →
Last month we launched the Yahoo! App and 360 importer so you can migrate your content to WordPress.com quickly and easily. And we introduced the SocialVibe widget, which helps you earn…
National Blog Posting Month →
Remember National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) back in November? You all used the opportunity to take a swing at churning out a 50,000-word novel on your blogs in only one month — some with…
June 2009
6 posts
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“Not everybody can have everything, and the sooner we admit that, the sooner our...”
– The sobering lessons of health reform in Massachusetts. - By Darshak Sanghavi - Slate Magazine
This is one of those truths everyone wants to skip over on their way to affordable healthcare. Rationing is the demon that ends every discussion. It should be where we start.
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Hello Health clinics would offer medical care... →
Is this the future of your primary care physcian? It should be.
SocialVibe →
You spend a lot of time creating great content and attracting an audience for your blog. What if you could use that influence to make a positive social impact? Now you can.
We’ve teamed up with…
May Wrap-Up →
Sorry for this being the latest wrap-up ever.
May was a fun month for us. We rolled out a ton of new features: the ability to add YouTube videos and polls to comments, stats in your time…
January 2008
2 posts
August 2007
4 posts
the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks →
Dog+Wolf+Rat = Fucking Creepy →
July 2007
44 posts
Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You -... →
A primer on ways to get around all the roadblocks your employer uses to thwart your personal interweb-based happiness.
A diesel Honda that gets 62.8 miles a gallon →
Paris Hilton loses inheritance | NEWS.com.au →
Fatness, part two →
Here is a graphic about fatness.
Fatness, part one →
Here is an article about fatness.
Transcript: CNN / Youtube Democratic Debate →
“Because nothing says “politically correct” like objecting to having...”
– The Volokh Conspiracy - How to Get Yourself Fired From a Summer Associate Job.
Potter-schmotter! →
Life is a Thrill...the Pagecast. →
Unfortunately, we are still on semi-hiatus. But I’m taking a little time to link to our new Pageflakes Pagecast. This is a kind of themed startpage that features feeds to some of the sites we check most frequently when we’re updating LIAT. To continually bring you the tastiest diversions from across the Interweb, we scour a few critical sources and usual suspects for crucial tips and...
Why Harry Potter Won't be a Bestseller →
40 Gig/sec. Broadband →
Dear Congress, If you allow AT&T to buy bandwidth, you are stupid.
Ryan: you know the two ladiers taht work the chester's fried chicken at the citgo?
me: yeah, sorta
Ryan: ok well the older lady who never talks. always expressionless. hair net
you know which one i'm talking about?
me: yeah, sorta again
Ryan: ok well this morning i went in to get some egg rolls
and she was the only one there
everytime i go there i always hope to get the younger girl to help me cause she at least talks and says hi and bye
i think the older lady just hates everything
well today she's the only one there
i order my stuff and she goes back to the kitchen i guess to get some clean tongs or something
and i can hear her radio playing but it's kinda quiet
me: and she's TOTALLY jamming our cd
Ryan: i'm trying to recognize what song it is when she comes back singing to herself
usually it's tejano or something but today
she was singing along to Baby Come Back
by Player
and i almost lost it
me: i do not remember that song
Ryan: i fought so hard not to laugh out loud
damn!
me: youtubing it now
Ryan: well the best part about it was that she STILL never changed her dfacial expression!
totally stone faced singing baby come back
me: HHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ryan: and even whistling the little guitar part in between the klyrics
me: OF COURSE I KNOW THIS SONG
