I am an optimist, and I believe that people are inherently good and that if you give everyone a voice and freedom of expression, the truth and the good will outweigh the bad. So, on the whole, I think the power that online distribution confers is a positive thing for society. Online we can act as a fifth estate.

I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

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.

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.