Month: April 2010

  • WordPress 3.0 Preview Webinar

    WordPress 3.0 Preview Webinar

    Yesterday, the iThemes folks graciously hosted me for a webinar. I had the opportunity to demonstrate some of the more anticipated features of WordPress 3.0 (due out next month). In the process, I also expressed some of the philosophies in the WordPress community around contributing and shaping the most popular publishing platform on the web.…

  • Our lives in a thousand years

    Our lives in a thousand years

    A few days ago, I posed a question on Facebook and on Twitter: What will our offspring know about us in a thousand years? It came after a conversation about how what we know about our ancestors has been discovered through archaeology and discovery of physical evidence. We know much about the Egyptians through discovery…

  • Battle of the Titans: Premium Theme Framework Smackdown

    Battle of the Titans: Premium Theme Framework Smackdown

    I have provided updates for the problems reported with each theme on their pages in this report. We can provide one update per framework as long as something significant has changed (as in a new release of the theme). For a few days now, I’ve been looking closely at the four major theme frameworks. There…

  • Doers & Talkers: Cultivating Innovation

    Doers & Talkers: Cultivating Innovation

    A few years ago, I wrote a post called Doers and Talkers where I profiled two types of people in the technology space: Those who have ideas and are visionaries (or talkers) and those who implement those ideas on behalf of others (the doers). I looked back at that post and realized that, while correct,…