“WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you e...” — Matt Mullenweg Quote

WordPress.com is the only service of its kind that not only lets you export your data, but gives you an open source package you can run on pretty much any web host out there to run your own instance of the software. So the freedom is really in your hands.

In every aspect of life, I consider myself incredibly fortunate.

In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.

I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.

When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data.

When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure.

We can inform decisions when we look at data points on retention rates with your first hundred users, when we look at things like survey responses from your first hundred users.

There will be hundreds of new companies that will be created to develop these very simple data devices.

If you use your smart toothbrush, the data can be immediately sent to your dentist and your insurance company, but it also allows someone from the NSA to know what was in your mouth three weeks ago.