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2hr Interview With Matt Mullenweg

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  1. Wesley (13 comments.) says:

    Any chance of a transcript? (With the answers) Would read much quicker than a 2 hour podcast.

    Thanks.

  2. Monika (4 comments.) says:

    Hi Jeff last night I ‘ve tried to understand the interview. But I have to realize I can’t understand Matt – it is hard to understand him – british english is much better to understand ;) I understand the questions but not Matt – he’s voice is not clear – maybe a technical issue. Is it possible to read some of his answers?

    I’m sure I’m not the only one with *not perfect foreign language knowledge* – but I’m sure it is important to know what he has said.

    I hope you see the joke in my words…
    Do you know Muppet Show- Miss Piggy – with her great eyes..
    with this great eyes I’ll try to make eyes on you.. and I have big green eyes … red hairs…

    please write the answers from Matt –

    ..

    :-)

    kindly regards
    Monika

  3. Jeff Chandler (295 comments.) says:

    Transcribing this interview by myself is a technical feat I am not willing to undertake. However, I will definitely look into paying a fee for a service or a person to transcribe the interview to text format.

    Any suggestions?

  4. Denis de Bernardy (8 comments.) says:

    More important than a transcript, it would be sweet to have some kind of “the gist of what he said is…”

    • Jeff Chandler (295 comments.) says:

      Well, maybe I’ll do that instead. The problem with doing that is I don’t want to have what Matt said misinterpreted because of my summation.

      • Denis de Bernardy (8 comments.) says:

        Well, there is a very real need for someone out there to highlight whatever guidelines were recently made up in layman’s terms. In the past, there arguably have been abuses. There have been retarded moves and guidelines as well.

        Recall that these guidelines are coming from the person who put spam up on wordpress.org and who went after users of the wordpress trademark. I don’t mean to stick an knife in a wound, but it is occasionally worth a reminder.

        Thus, please give it a try. Your blog is no different from others: It’s not worth anyone’s time if one can’t extract the key information in a snap. At the very worst, you’ll get is a disclaimer from Matt, and you’ll update your synthesis to reflect it.

        • Andy Beard (25 comments.) says:

          One of the interesting things about the trademark is how it affects people advertising on Google.
          http://www.google.com/search?h.....tnG=Search

          Note that they can’t use the word “WordPress” in the ads, only bid on the term. This has a significant effect on both CTR and advertising spend.
          This affects other topics suchs as hosting, consulting, installation.

          Domains are still not being fully policed

          Some of the domains owned by “Friends of Automattic” are being used to sell premium WordPress themes

          There has been a quite lengthy conversation about this over on Alister’s blog.
          http://www.alistercameron.com/.....press-gpl/

          I am primarily interested in this as a customer of premium WordPress themes – I own quite a few, and if sales are hit, then support may also take a nosedive.

          There are still themes being used on WP.com that wouldn’t qualify to be added to the theme directory on wp.org. Surely that is a double standard?

  5. Conor (1 comments.) says:

    I understood it fine, I didn’t see any problem at all. Great interview!.
    Also: Is the normal wordpress weekly on this week as well?

    Conorp

  6. Barry (33 comments.) says:

    Unfortunately as the moment, with only a relatively slow 3G network connection at the moment, I’m in no position to download a 2 hour interview. So a short a succinct post that covered the main points would be extremely helpful, particularly as this issue seems to be, on the surface of things, an important one for a lot of people.

  7. Wayne (1 comments.) says:

    I’m just adding myself to the list of people having trouble with the podcast. I’m having real trouble trying to pick out what Matt is saying.

  8. Lynne (1 comments.) says:

    I’m another one having trouble understanding Matt. I’ve spent 2 1/2 hours concentrating on the first part of the interview, where you discuss the premium themes but still missed chunks of what he was saying. A transcript would be really good.

  9. Flick (20 comments.) says:

    @Jeffro: Would you consider cutting the interview into several parts and just sending them over to individuals (like moi?? :D) who would happily transcribe e.g. half an hour or 45 minutes?

  10. zaki blogjer (1 comments.) says:

    Only questions listed.

    I can’t download it with slow internet connection resulted from the submarine cable cut 2 days ago which impacts Asia.

    Can you summarize it please

  11. Jeff Chandler (295 comments.) says:

    If you look at the bottom of the post, you should now see a link to download a text file to see a log from the chatroom. This is not the transcription of the podcast which I am till investigating how to do without spending a good amount o money.

  12. Monika says:

    Thanks Jeff, maybe Matt is nice and post his answer on ma.tt –maybe.

    k.r
    Monika

  13. Jeff Chandler (295 comments.) says:

    As you folks can tell from the latest pingback, looks like Flick from WPSnippets.com has picked up on the project of transcribing the interview and has part one finished:

    http://www.wpsnippets.com/2008.....1/#content

    Lets work together to make sure the transcription is accurate.

    • Flick (28 comments.) says:

      Thanks for the plug, Jeff, it’s much appreciated! Any corrections to ensure that the transcription is accurate would be so very helpful as well. :) Thanks for everyone’s support so far!

  14. Donny Kingston (1 comments.) says:

    This meet up was in 2008, any plans to meet up with Matt again soon? It would be great to hear Matt’s thoughts on the new blog tools such as Pinterest and Tumblr and see where he plans to take WordPress from now onwards. My guess is that some of Tumblr’s features will be added to the WP core.



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