There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.

When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?

We focus on two things when hiring. First, find the best people you can in the world. And second, let them do their work. Just get out of their way.

One thing about open source is that even the failures contribute to the next thing that comes up. Unlike a company that could spend a million dollars in two years and fail and there's nothing really to show for it, if you spend a million dollars on open source, you probably have something amazing that other people can build on.