Twitter turned 7 years old this week. It makes me more grateful than ever for WordPress. Without WordPress, I would not have learned to write with my own voice and style.
WordPress is an awesome platform. WordPress is pretty damn open. Matt Mullenweg is really accesible. Matt is the founder and still pretty much in charge. He was like 15 when he started it. WordPress has community. WordPress powers so much media, but is rarely in the media. I meat Tony Conrad, Stocktwits first venture capital investor, through WordPress. Tony was Matts first investor.
Asides
Reblogged: Seth’s Blog: The warning signs of defending the status quo
From Seth Godin’s blog:
The warning signs of defending the status quo
When confronted with a new idea, do you:
Consider the cost of switching before you consider the benefits?
Highlight the pain to a few instead of the benefits for the many?
Exaggerate how good things are now in order to reduce your fear of change?
Undercut the credibility, authority or experience of people behind the change?
Grab onto the rare thing that could go wrong instead of amplifying the likely thing that will go right?
Focus on short-term costs instead of long-term benefits, because the short-term is more vivid for you?
Fight to retain benefits and status earned only through tenure and longevity?
Embrace an instinct to accept consistent ongoing costs instead of swallowing a one-time expense?
Slow implementation and decision making down instead of speeding it up?
Embrace sunk costs?
Imagine that your competition is going to be as afraid of change as you are? Even the competition that hasn’t entered the market yet and has nothing to lose…
Emphasize emergency preparation at the expense of a chronic and degenerative condition?
Compare the best of what you have now with the possible worst of what a change might bring?
Calling it out when you see it might give your team the strength to make a leap.
via Seth’s Blog: The warning signs of defending the status quo.
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Tripit
Been traveling a bunch lately, and started using the Tripit service again. I know many people are hooked on this, but I had looked at it previously when it first came out, but for whatever reason, it didn’t quite work for me. Now it’s rock solid.
The way it works, is with their super smart email parser, every confirmation email you get from airlines, hotels, car rentals, etc gets automatically put into trip itineraries, which are then accessible on mobile devices too. You can also manually enter in the info.
And what’s cool is that it finds the gate info for your flight, alerts you to changes, and allows you to share trip info as well.
Useful stuff.
Raanan Bar-Cohen 