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 perfect…
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
8 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 …
“yes. it is happening.” →
You ever have one of those moments where you lapse in keeping up with yourself and realize, one day, that you get everything that’s been happening in July but can’t remember what the hell you got up…
mister you’re on fire mister →
In Praise of Bad Music:
Detest bad music but do not despise it. As it is played, and especially sung, much more passionately then good music, it has much more than the latter been impregnated,…
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
7 posts
ahem →
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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…
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…
rock you harder than a martyr in a holy war →
Alright, a writeup of two shows… this post will be about the Peaches show, in more detail.
The Peaches and IAMX shows were attended by myself, Andy and two other people- Luna for Peaches and Sable…
press release →
Re: the social media issues last week:
I stand by what I said. The hypocrisy of the post in question begged for a response. Perhaps it was too vicious, but if others are aren’t brutally honest then…
winner’s blues →
okay, i lied.
magic people voodoo people →
Baron Samedi stands at the crossroads, where the souls of dead humans pass on their way to Guinee. He is a sexual loa, frequently represented by phallic symbols and he noted for disruption,…
May 2009
4 posts
i’ll heal you with a razorblade →
Oh, you’re fucking worried about me, huh.
Worried enough that you pull your same old bullshit when i do something you don’t agree with.
Worried enough that you gossip and talk your shit about me.
set it up, we’ll pull it down →
I just woke up. It was like a scene from a film and I swear I saw myself doing it from the doorway- one second I was peacefully asleep, the next, I jolted upright, wide-eyed and terrified….
cars parked in the sun →
I spend the night at Isis’ and I end up in LA.
The trip down was completely unreasonable. Isis and I were hopped up on caffeine and adrenaline and I don;t think we went below 70 mph the entire time…
videotape →
I gave him my copy of Faggots, wrapped in his jacket. A piece of me in a piece of him, it felt appropriate.
(God, that fucking jacket.
I’d had it for a long time. It looked great on me. So I wore…
April 2009
7 posts
hate to break it to you but it’s out of my control →
Don’t you love it when webcomics capture your feelings perfectly?
Onto more pressing topics: why is it that whenever you tell a doctor you’re queer, they automatically assume you have HIV?…
its just a kiss away →
It’s 7:57 am after another sleepless night. Listening to “Gimme Shelter” by the Rolling Stones and staring at my ceiling.
When I moved in here, I replaced my bed. Not immediately; for a month or so…
it’s in the way that he poses →
I’ve been talking to Aliester a lot more since I saw him this last weekend. He called me today, and it was one of the few phone calls I answered… he understands me a lot better than a hell of a lot…
if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it →
Point:
“alright im tired of waiting, sorry to just leave a message like this, but i don’t think its going to work out between us, i doubt you have any hard feelings at this point, but yea, im just…
never seem to know when to stop →
I haven’t had a drink in five weeks.
It feels… really, really good. I’ve needed to do this for a long time. I can’t remember the last time I was dry this long; it had to have been before I got…
every little defect gets respect →
Holy christ it’s hot. Makes cuddling difficult. HOWEVER, it makes rocking out to the new Peaches record infinitely easy.
I’m reading The House of Mirth, which makes a lot of sense to me. I’ve…
of course i love you and of course it’s what’s... →
things are dying all over me.
i haven’t gotten laid in a month, and i’m actually really okay with that.
unrelated: emma and i have decided that miley cyrus, alias “Hannah Montana” is a sentient…
March 2009
8 posts
a pig in a cage →
I wonder if I’ll ever get out of here.
Denise had the astute comment that we’re all kind of trapped in our circumstances for at least year, but at the same time, at the end of all this, whenever it…
i use every part of the cow →
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given. [info]fistshaker chose these things about me: 1….
holding on/letting go →
Sometimes I wonder if anything is really going to change. The country is on a downward spiral and I feel like I’m mirroring it in some sort of as above/so below scenario. Finally facing problems,…
fumbling in the dark →
It’s my birthday today.
The last week has been this contrast between the rush of diseases that has been my life since december and the exhausting schedule of being mistaken for one of the cool…
zankoku na tenchi no teze →
I don’t think I can write before four in the morning. There’s a rumor that Kafka never wrote unless it was night; he felt the noise of his neighbors and fellow tenants maddening. I suppose it’s kind…
remove my spirit from darkness/love become my... →
On the subject of “let’s just be friends”:
“I don’t want a friendship with you! That’s something else entirely. You don’t fuck with your friends. And every faggot couple I know is deep into…
part of the weekend never dies →
So Wondercon was pretty amazing. I met up with Noel and Starla, and spent a lot of time chilling with Martin. Met some cool people- like Chris Onstand, Brian Azarello and Jill Thompson- and…
oh,…
February 2009
7 posts
ATTENTION →
I will be attending WonderCon in San Francisco from 27 February to 1 March. Bay area cats? hit me up.
modern moonlight →
This is a story about Venustiano.
Okay, some background. I’ve been lazily chasing V and he actually has the honor of being the first person to make me wait since Mihoshi. (Kiyoshi doesn’t count-…
