The Lighthouse Keeper's cat

Now… seeing that I never made it to Mail Me Art 1 –I definitely will have a go this time. Submissions should be open till December. Darren keeps it a bit open ^_^…

How to submit your mail art

“Mail Me Art 2 will run for around 6-8 months. For more information about the project, please click here. If you’re after some inspiration, you can see examples of work from the first Mail Me Art project here.”*

P.S. The LCS email Newsletter is one of the few I actually bother loading the images, so if you are heading to the website, you might consider signing up.

*)…Text stolen from the MMA website

…because this part won’t be like a comic book. Real life does not fit into little boxes that were drawn for it.

Elijah to David in M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Unbreakable’

All the boys by Joulu, Irena Zablotska.

I love her Sketches Set on Flickr.

Joulu, Irena Zablotska’s website zablotska.com.

In short: If you are planning anything social networking… sit tight, wait for WordPress to merge WordPress MU to the core. Once this has happened, BuddyPress and bbPress will be in 1.xxx and we might see some interesting stuff coming up.

Chris Lipscombe (link to follow) told us “How to get it right in order to make it big” with his Business Fundamentals.

Harley Alexander told us a few things about themes. Things you do not really need to know, but are awesome for the advanced theme builder ^_^… wow.

Now Bernard Hickey was a highlight for me today. Real journalists, using the blogger sphere tools to make money while staying independent. I am sure I was not the only one who thought he made a joke when he said he makes money from Bank Advertisement… Which BTW makes way more sense once you move from the blog to the website ^_^…

One (at least I) can learn heaps of stuff about online publishing from a blogger with a solid “real” journalistic background. I loved his phrase on “curating your content”.

“Turbocharge your WordPress” from Jeff Waugh was another eye opener. He seems to know his stuff and if he answers to the remark “…some people say WordPress does not scale to industry size” with something like “… These people are Idiots! They aren’t looking at who is using WordPress, their loss…”. Now a dedicated server with somebody like Jeff tweaking the bits and pieces might help.

Fazit: … maybe the next time I will not ask quite as many questions, and I definitely will wiki the speakers first. It might not be very clever to ask somebody who allegedly got an offer for $200 Mil (Source Wikipedia) for his company, how he makes money ^_^…

I think WordPress got enough love for 2 days… so back to ranting again ^_^…

… I am a big believer in the Linux philosophy small pieces loosely joined. The future of WordPress is not a giant monolithic thing, that has all the features in the world. … which is honestly the direction a lot of competing CMS are going…

Matt Mullenweg – August 8, 2009 WordPressCamp New Zealand

Hear, Hear ^_^ …

To be honest  WordCamp New Zealand Day One was a surprise … a positive one ^_^. The best thing you can take home from any (un)conference is this feeling of being charged with energy, ready to go and make the world a better place… and this time it actually worked…

It was not only the quality of the speakers, it was the mixture. Jason Kemp, Dan Milward and Anthony Cole managed to get a wide range of presentations together, starting with Steven Price trying to keep bloggers out of legal trouble and Dan’s talk about eCommerce plugin. Old fashioned me is skeptical about the theme generator thingy, I admire what Ryan Hellyer achieved… it is just that I myself believe that software only gets you so far. To get your fingers dirty with a bit of code is not a bad thing…

Philip Fierlinger, Work Head of Design at Xero, is always great to listen to. There was heaps to learn from his experience with corporate blogging at Xero.

Now… personally I was really surprised by Matt Mullenweg – co-founder of WordPress and director of Automattic. “… one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web.” (source http://ma.tt/)… whatever that might mean … his answers were smart, engaging and having this flair of professional honesty… you know, the one were you never know what actually is true and what is purely professional. I myself chose to believe the words. I think the world is not completely lost if there are people out there like Mike to keep open source what it should be and not just choosing it as a marketing stand to sell their products or services. Even so – I assume – he is a multi-millionaire, (Matt Mullenweg on Wikipedia) guess what? fair enough…

Gareth Townsend presentation on the new WordPress iPhone App did make me think… yup that is how it actually should work, so once they get this release out, we can look forward to some real cool stuff in the future. And Doug Casement is a legend anyway.

I am looking forward to tomorrow.

My Fazit so far ….

… I will keep on complaining about WordPress… as well as keep using it for all my web projects ^_^ and telling everybody else they should use it, but I will be very careful when I use “kids coding” again. I think the kids grow up fast…

… and I really would like to find an angle to contribute …

P.S. why is Tiny MCA doing this to me… ARGH if I click on remove formatting, I would like you to remove “§$%&/() formatting ….. ^_^…. see?