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Visiting the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany was a bucket list experience for me. I’d been at WordPress VIP for four years and the block editor in our CMS is called Gutenberg, so I kept trying to get them to host one of our team meetups close enough for us to visit the museum. InContinue reading “Me and Gutenberg”

For decades, ranking on Google was survival. Now ADWEEK reports that some of the biggest media businesses are not-so-quietly making plans to disappear from it. This isn’t just one angry newspaper. The Wall Street Journal lists USA Today, Reuters, Politico, The Economist and People Inc. among the publishers who are considering cutting off Google. AndContinue reading “Antifragile rocks”

Every team I talk to has the same instinct for their content: go where the audience is. Chase them on search. Chase them on social. Now they’re chasing them on AI answer engines. Whether you think that’s lazy or not, it can be valuable in the short term. But long term, it’s a trap. YourContinue reading “Portability is survival”

Om Malik died last week. He liked me — or maybe he tolerated me, but he loved several of my good friends. So my heart goes out to each of them as so many people in our industry celebrate his life and share how amazing and influential Om was in their lives. The first thingContinue reading “Two things I learned from Om Malik”

My wife is Greek and she visited Greece a lot when she was younger, but hadn’t been there since we met 30 years ago. So we planned an epic two-week family vacation this summer to see seven cities in Greece. It was incredible and I had a wonderful time — until I got sick withContinue reading “Comin’ out of my cage and I’ve been doin’ just fine”

I spent half my career building content management systems that competed with WordPress. The first half of my career WordPress didn’t exist. I met Matt Mullenweg in 2004 at SxSW when WordPress was less than a year old. In 2009, I was thrilled that one of my software platforms was used to run 14% ofContinue reading “Clipisode joined Automattic”

Clipisode was a ridiculously easy way for brands and stars to get videos from anyone, anywhere. It worked simply by sharing a link. No one had to download, install or join anything to send you a video reply. Clipisode even worked inside apps like Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram. You could go fromContinue reading “Clipisode is shutting down”

I built dozens of content management systems that generated millions of dollars in value. Matt Mullenweg built one content management system, gave it away for free, became a leader in the open source revolution and generated more than a billion dollars in value. Maybe I was charging too much! Since 2003, I have run myContinue reading “Finally, WordPress”

Here’s a quick video that shows off Clipisode’s powerful animation engine.

I’m a fan of Simon Owens’ Business of Content podcast, so I was really thrilled to be interviewed in a recent episode. And I love how he puts a transcript of each interview in a Medium post for people who aren’t into podcasts. Smart! I interviewed Alvey about what it was like to run aContinue reading “The Business of Content”