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

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.

People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

I don't have a Wikiquotes page.

Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.