“The biggest mistake we made at WordPress.com in term of infrastructure was buyin…” — Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

We're not done yet, but two things WordPress has been able to exemplify is that open source can create great user experiences and that it's possible to have a successful commercial entity and a wider free software community living and working in harmony.

The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition.

I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.