While at one of the partner events, WHIR TV had the opportunity to sit down with Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, and gain some insight into the origins of his company, his thoughts on the hosting industry and his advice to companies and how they can best utilize blogging technology to reach out to their customers and improve their business.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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Comment by Anonymous on Monday, September 03, 2007
I think that Matt is a very wise guy. Wordpress and the blogging platforms are simply improving the usage of the internet. I've been blogging myself and I realized that I can reach out to way more people that I used to with some self scripted php code.
Wordpress is beautiful. A lovely community that sticks up for it and I bet that the development is not completed yet.