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" Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs. "
Matt Mullenweg
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" Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in the long term. "
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" I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary. "
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" I don't care what hours you work. I don't care if you sleep late or if you pick a child up from school in the afternoon. It's all about your output. "
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" It turns out that social networks drive a heck of a lot of traffic to blogs. "
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" It seems like the web, particularly software as a service, provides ample opportunities for you to flourish economically, completely aligned with the broader open source community. "
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" The promise of the early web was that everyone could have a website but there was something missing. Maybe the technology wasn't ready. "
Matt Mullenweg
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" My job is such that I get to run new things every day, and I get to run new markets and new technologies. I enjoy that quite a bit. "
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" The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access. "
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" I think it's good to have different locations for different modes you want to be in throughout the day, and to keep them separate. "
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" In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate. "
Matt Mullenweg
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" The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives. "
Matt Mullenweg
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" Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa. "
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" Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! "
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" Philip Greenspun had a huge impact on me. He was the first person I knew of that embraced online communities, created a real business around open source, gave back to the community through education, and inspired me to explore photography. "
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" The relationship between WordPress and Tumblr has always been pretty friendly: Tumblr's own blog used to be on WP, WordPress.com supports Tumblr as a Publicize option alongside Twitter and Facebook, our Akismet team sends them daily emails of splogs on the service, and there's healthy import and export traffic both ways. "
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Relationship
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Service
" The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing. "
Matt Mullenweg
Sing
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" There is no moderator or ombudsman online, and while the transparency of the web usually means that information is self-correcting, we still have to keep in mind the responsibility each of us carries when the power of the press is at our fingertips and in our pockets. "
Matt Mullenweg
Mind
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" Has anyone ever said, 'I wish I could go to more meetings today'? "
Matt Mullenweg
I Wish
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" One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that. "
Matt Mullenweg
Doing
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" If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion. "
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Best
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" If you still use 'admin' as a username on your blog, change it. "
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Still
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Change
" You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies. "
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" A lot of the early adoption of WordPress was actually from thousands and millions of individually hosted instances, so a lot of the people who ran WordPress were on their own. "
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" The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. "
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" Sometimes you might feel blogs are like TV: You have a thousand channels, but nothing good is on. "
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TV
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" Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data. "
Matt Mullenweg
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" When I travel, which is most of the year, I live in TripIt. "
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" I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google! "
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" While I personally believe strongly in the philosophy and ideology of the Free Software movement, you can't win people over just on philosophy; you have to have a better product, too. "
Matt Mullenweg
People
You
Better
" For me, it always comes back to the blogger, the author, the designer, the developer. You build software for that core individual person, and then smart organisations adopt it and dumb organisations die. "
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You
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Die