Humid Beings

listening to "Corinne Bailey Rae - Paris Nights / New York Mornings" ? http://blip.fm/~n06zw

@TiffanyWI no... i would say #hotness #barelylegal

mom, just called to say she's bringing home @PopeyesChicken fresh out the fryer. i'm watching for her out the window like a puppy. :)

Set Your Blog’s Timezone by City

One of my favorite things about working on WordPress.com is that improvements get made and pushed out as soon as they’re tested and ready. Just a day after I wrote about manually changing your blog’s timezone to account for Daylight Saving Time, Ryan updated WordPress.com so you can now set…

@ToniGoSaintsRou i KNOW. i don't think most companies realize that great customer service goes a very long way these days.

YUMZ! RT @mbink: baking irish soda bread!

MARISA TOMEI!!!!!! love her!

RT @tony5kratchere: Complacency doesn't live here.

thinking of a master plan...

family guy.

@groovescapes that's crazy

@shercole that would be nice!

going for a run (read: mostly walk) around the neighborhood.

@ToniGoSaintsRou woohooo! thanks :)

@shercole you win at life just for knowing me. be grateful!

it's been a very nice and productive day. gotta love this weather. resting up for a bit, then some exercise.

RT @NOMA1910: RT @dougmaccashTP: Dreams Came True: NOMA reports 8,592 attended the 30-hr Disney "Dreams Come True" finale; total attend ...

Please follow @NHNewOrleans & tweet so I can win $50 in YLC Wednesday at the Square tickets! Rules here: http://bit.ly/a9sODM

RT @champsuperstar: It's the new @liz_money, y'all. Follow & update. #newliz #ID10T

get me these tix! RT @CherieTNola: YLC Wednesday at the Square Tickets for Tweets! Rules: http://bit.ly/a9sODM #WATS ^CT /via @NHNewOrleans

all orange juice is NOT created equal. #justsayin

Time to Spring Forward

Ah, spring, when a young person’s fancy turns to … blogging. And time changes. (Maybe baseball too, if that’s your thing.) WordPress.com blog time settings follow the UTC time standard. This method allows us to keep the stats database lean and fast. That translates into free stats for everyone! UTC…

OMG WordPress BBQ at SxSW

This weekend, thousands of WordPress users and fans (including many hosted here on WordPress.com) are among the people attending the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive conference in Austin, TX. To celebrate this, we’re throwing a WordPress BBQ at SxSW tomorrow so that there’s a place for us all to get…

New Theme: Titan

Titan is a fantastic theme, now available on WordPress.com. It’s a highly readable, clean theme, with lots of options: four widget areas, a customizable header, and more. Behold Titan! An enticing color scheme and loads of customization make Titan a wonderful theme for you blog. To start things off the…

Rub-a-Dub-Dub in the PubSubHubbub

From the tongue twisting name department we welcome PubSubHubbub, or as some people have shortened it to: PuSH. Like rssCloud, PuSH is a way for services that subscribe to updates from your blog (think Google Reader, Bloglines or Netvibes) to get updates even faster. In a nutshell, instead of having…

Publicize: Facebook

You can now send your WordPress.com posts to Facebook. Joining our Yahoo and Twitter features is our latest in WordPress.com’s Publicize family: Facebook. The feature can be enabled from your Dashboard → My Blogs admin page. Once you enable it, you’ll be directed through an authorization procedure to confirm that…

WP.com Downtime Summary

Today WordPress.com was down for approximately 110 minutes, our worst downtime in four years. The outage affected 10.2 million blogs, including our VIPs, and appears to have deprived those blogs of about 5.5 million pageviews. What Happened: We are still gathering details, but it appears an unscheduled change to a…

Proofread More Languages

We’re often asked when we plan to make our intelligent proofreading technology available for more languages. We’ve been hard at work and today we’re announcing After the Deadline proofreading for French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. These languages feature After the Deadline’s smart contextual spell checking. We’re also using a great…

rssCloud By The Numbers

Here at WordPress.com we like to keep stats on the various features and resources available to our users. So as part of the release for rssCloud on WordPress.com I added internal stats to see how it was being used. It tracks things like the number of subscription requests and the…

Mobile Apps for WordPress

February has been a great month for mobile blogging on WordPress.com. In just the past week, WordPress apps for Android and BlackBerry made their official debuts, and the iPhone app reached version 2.2. No other blogging service has this kind of app support across these three smartphone platforms — we…

Sitemap pings for instant search updates

Publishing your blog on WordPress.com lets you focus on your content while we sweat the technical stuff, including helping your content reach a larger audience. Last week WordPress.com turned on sitemap pings for our millions of hosted blogs. Now, immediately after you publish or delete a page or post*, your…

New Theme: Motion

I’m happy to present to you, “Motion,” a dashing new theme inspired by movement and film. Bursting with style and options, Motion is a clean, colorful, and charismatic new theme. Motion, a colorful and clean theme. Motion combines color and clean lines to give your content character without hindering consumption.…

Posterous Importer

Posterous is a blogging system that launched with an interesting twist — everything happens via email from signup to posting. Since the launch of our post by email features in addition to things like email comment replies and blog subscriptions we’ve been receiving more inquiries from people wanting to graduate from…

New Theme: Steira

Full of character yet minimal, we bring you the wonderful “Steira,” bursting at the seams with detail and functionality. Steira in all its glory! Recent Comments Widget for Steira The sidebar is large in this theme giving you a lot of room to play. Any widget will do, but the…

Improved Polls and Ratings

We have made a couple of updates to the polls and ratings feature on WordPress.com that you may have already noticed. Ratings on front page There is now an option in the ratings settings to allow you to display your posts ratings on the front page. Usage is very simple…

Post by Email Wrapup

Since our Post by Email feature opened last year the emails have been coming in fast and furious. Here’s a wrap-up of some of the latest improvements. Bigger attachments We like to see photos and video in your posts, so we’ve increased the size of emails that can be sent,…

Vox Importer

Thinking of moving your blog from Vox.com to WordPress.com? You are not alone. We’ve noticed that several people are dissatisfied with the service and want to move their blog elsewhere. A lot of people that we’ve heard from say they didn’t realize that there is no way to export from…

WordPress Personas for Firefox

Last week Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the latest and greatest version of their open source Web browser. To mark the occasion, we worked with designer Chad Pugh to create a couple of brand new WordPress Personas for Firefox. Personas are like skins for your browser, and these designs are a…

New Theme: monochrome

Sleek, and bursting with elegance, I’m happy to bring you monochrome, another addition to the wonderful collection of themes available on WordPress.com. monochrome is a beautiful theme with wonderful details. monochrome, the theme, in action. The name comes from the theme’s monochromatic color palette. Beautiful and sleek, it’s the attention…

My Tips on WordPress.com

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, that’s creativity. – Charles Mingus From the time we started WordPress.com in 2005, we’ve focused on making it easy and rewarding to use so that anyone could get started with blogging. Along the way all of you who’ve been using…