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Why WordPress's new Calypso interface is genius

Matt Mullenweg just introduced a new management interface for WordPress: Today we’re announcing something brand new, a new approach to WordPress, and open sourcing the code behind it. The project, codenamed Calypso, is the culmination of more than 20 months of work by dozens of the most talented engineers

Let in the refugees. How we respond to them is a reflection of who we are.

George Packer in the New Yorker this week: A lot of people in this country are disgracing themselves this week. They include politicians of both parties—though many more Republicans than Democrats—and all regions. Their motives vary: deep-seated bigotry, unreasoning fear, spinelessness, opportunism, or some unholy mix of them

Open issues: lessons learned building an open source business

Prologue: The first time I ever visited South Park, the tiny patch of grass in downtown San Francisco that the Matter garage would later back onto, Biz Stone bought me a coffee. We circled the park and talked about Elgg, our open source social networking product, and Twitter, the startup

Help me debug a personal project

Working title: ten questions A fully anonymous site where you answer 10 questions that attempt to pinpoint your beliefs on social and economic issues. These aren't essay questions, exactly, but neither are they multiple choice: the idea is to get you to explain your point of view without

Untestable, unsafe and on the freeway: why cars need to be open source

Our devices are working against us. Recently, we learned that Volkswagen was falsifying its mandatory E.P.A. emissions tests. Because each test has a set of characteristics that don’t accurately match real-world driving conditions, the internal software running in 11 million cars could deduce that an official test

@t I was making fun :) I ...

@t I was making fun :) I really do see a bright future. But definitely looking forward to hanging out and seeing the movie.

@riprowan I'd say it sits alongside a ...

@riprowan I'd say it sits alongside a WordPress. I've heard it described as a "sideblog". Notes and ideas as well as finished pieces.

@riprowan The big deal is deeper connections ...

@riprowan The big deal is deeper connections with the networks you already use. eg, everything I share on Twitter is syndicated from my site

@StartupLJackson I think he knows exactly what ...

@StartupLJackson I think he knows exactly what year it is, and Dell's own enterprise cloud offerings are falling flat. Ofc, this will too.

Two things that I think are different ...

Two things that I think are different about doing startups out here and in Cambridge: 1. Flip-flops are totally cool, 2. and failure is embraced as a part of life. A startup is a serious endeavor and you need to give it more than your all. But ultimately, if you

@harryhalpin Does that mean I can count ...

@harryhalpin Does that mean I can count you down for an interview? :)