Random WordPress of the Day #0042

Title: WordPress Vs Thesis Interview

If you haven’t heard about it, there’s a big debate between Thesis and WordPress, and the GPL, and should Thesis be free.

There may even be upcoming legal action.

Watch the video and pick your side, it’s pretty clear in our mind that Matt is correct on this one, and Chris is using some very interesting words and not answering the questions directly.

WordPress Person of the Day #0042

Name: Brendan Sera-Shriar

Country: Canada

Click here to visit his website!

Who is Brendan (from his blog’s about page)?

Brendan Sera-Shriar A.K.A. digibomb
Brendan Sera-Shriar has been an interactive designer, developer, author and teacher for over 10 years. Brendan studied Graphics, Animation, and Web Development at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology (Toronto, Canada), Ryerson University (Toronto, Canada), and Pratt University (Brooklyn, NY).

Brendan is a prominent member of FlashinTO, PHUG – Open Source Culture, has taught web design at Long Island University Brooklyn campus, and has been a professor at Seneca College in the School of Communication Arts for over 7 years. Brendan currently owns and operates digibomb, a freelance web company specializing in WordPress Design and Development. He is also the founder of PHUG, an open source community for designers and developers with currently over 4000 members. Brendan has contributed to many open source projects including papervision3D, red5, Firefox, WordPress, and Drupal, just to name a few.

Here’s an interview from the ConFoo report:

Random WordPress of the Day #0031

Title: The Future of WordPress

Most of us know where WordPress is at right now, and some of the things they have in store, specially with WordPress 3.0 coming up. But what about longer term, and other plans they have.

Mashable landed an interview with WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg at WordCamp San Francisco last week.

We speaks about the demise of Ning and how buddyPress, his solution for communities, can help those folks who are left wondering about free alternatives. He also talked about how WordPress plans to compete with Tumblr, the status of the nonprofit WordPress Foundation, acquisition plans in 2010, WordPress’ focus on themes and even his favorite non-WordPress blogs.

Here is the video: