Anil Dash has A Brief History of Apple’s iWatch — a must-read if you follow tech news like I do.
Business Insider has a fun article on Automattic’s Awesome Remote Work Culture. Includes some quotes from me about how we work, including “Rather than being anti-office, we’re more location agnostic” and the top five meetup locations so far (Lisbon, Portugal; Kauai; San Francisco; Amsterdam; Tybee Island, Georgia).
Bruce Schneier on The Public-Private Surveillance Partnership. Packed with good links as well.
WordCamp SF Jazz Playlist
A lot of people have been asking about the playlist from WordCamp San Francisco last weekend, and thanks to some help from Rose here it is:
If you want to subscribe to it (or my other playlists on Spotify) I’ll be updating a bit throughout the year so we can have something fresh come 2014.
3.6 and State of the Word
3.6 has been released and has a groovy video to go with it:
It’s been a busy week, WordCamp San Francisco 2013 went off without a hitch. Here’s the State of the Word presentation, which covered quite a bit of material and talks about the plans for WordPress 3.7 and 3.8:
And here’s the question and answer session:
There was a pretty good summary of the presentation in infographic form. A bit more about this next week, and some more announcements in store as well.
The 2013 Emmy nominations have been announced and included among the nominees is the Lift-built AMC The Walking Dead StorySync, which is nominated in the Outstanding Interactive Program category.
Jay Z + Me
I think it was Dustin Curtis who said something along the lines of “you can learn a lot about someone by their bucket list,” and he had posted his publicly recently. (Posting it is a great idea by the way, people will help you with it.) I began to think about mine, which was a little strange because I’ve been trying to move away from desiring things or experiences and just be more grateful in the present, but immediately a few music ones came to mind: have WordPress name-checked in a major hip-hop song, be in a rap video, and perform with one of my favorite artists (somehow).
It was less than a week later I got an email from a friend who was helping organize a hush-hush event where Jay-Z would sing his song Picasso Baby over and over 6 hours while interacting with various artists and an audience as a performance piece, and there might even be an opportunity to be one of the people he interacted with. My jaw dropped.