“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” Web - brandonrawks.wordpress.com Twitter - @brandonrawksTumblr (3.0; @brandonlusk)http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/02/09/posterous-importer/">Posterous Importer</a>: <p><a title="Posterous" href="http://posterous.com/" target="_blank">Posterous</a> is a blogging system that launched with an interesting twist — everything happens via email from signup to posting. Since <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/" target="_blank">the launch of our post by email features</a> in addition to…</p>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/379358100http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/379358100Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:38:40 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/new-theme-steira/">New Theme: Steira</a>: <p>Full of character yet minimal, we bring you the wonderful “Steira,” bursting at the seams with detail and functionality.</p> <div id="attachment_3654" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 785px"> <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/screen-shot-2010-02-08-at-2-8-4-26-01-pm.png" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-3654" title="Steira in all its glory!" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/screen-shot-2010-02-08-at-2-8-4-26-01-pm-e1265664399575.png" alt="" width="775" height="420"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Steira in all its glory!</p> </div> <div id="attachment_3650" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 422px"> <img class="size-full wp-image-3650" title="Recent Comments" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2010/02/screen-shot-2010-02-08-at-2-8-3-21-22-pm.png" alt="" width="412" height="230"/><p class="wp-caption-text">Recent Comments Widget…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/378971136http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/378971136Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:47:23 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/improved-polls-ratings/">Improved Polls and Ratings</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>We have made a couple of updates to the <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/polldaddy-ratings-and-polls/" target="_blank">polls and ratings feature</a> on WordPress.com that you may have already noticed.</p> <h4>Ratings on front page</h4> <p>There is now an option in the ratings settings to…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/371136970http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/371136970Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:09:07 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/post-by-email-wrapup/">Post by Email Wrapup</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Since our <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/post-by-email/" target="_blank">Post by Email</a> feature opened last year the emails have been coming in fast and furious. Here’s a wrap-up of some of the latest improvements.</p> <p><strong>Bigger attachments</strong><br/> We like to see…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/357776873http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/357776873Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:42:14 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/vox-importer/">Vox Importer</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Thinking of moving your blog from <a href="http://vox.com/" target="_blank">Vox.com</a> to WordPress.com? You are not alone.</p> <p>We’ve noticed that several people are dissatisfied with the service and want to move their blog elsewhere. A lot…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/356949314http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/356949314Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:51:04 -0600<p>So excited about the Apple event. C’mon, Steve - don’t let us down!</p>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/356413392http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/356413392Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:07:19 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/wordpress-personas-for-firefox/">WordPress Personas for Firefox</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Last week Mozilla released <a href="http://www.firefox.com" target="_blank">Firefox 3.6</a>, the latest and greatest version of their open source Web browser. To mark the occasion, we worked with designer <a href="http://www.thebigpugh.com" target="_blank">Chad Pugh</a> to create a couple of brand…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/353694474http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/353694474Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:34:42 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/my-tips-on-wordpress-com/">My Tips on WordPress.com</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><blockquote><p><em>Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, that’s creativity.<br/> – Charles Mingus</em></p></blockquote> <p>From the time <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2005/11/23/opening-it-up/" target="_blank">we started WordPress.com in 2005</a>, we’ve focused on making it…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/331547247http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/331547247Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:18:37 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/wordpress-com-and-hootsuite/">WordPress.com: Now on HootSuite</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Last month we introduced new ways to post and keep up to date with WordPress.com blogs <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/twitter-api/" target="_blank">through the Twitter API</a>. One of the coolest parts about this is you can make use of a growing number of…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/320852301http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/320852301Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:34:01 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/two-new-stats-things/">Two New Stats Things</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Did you ever look at your stats chart and wonder which posts were published on a particular day? Now it’s easy to find out. Just move your mouse around the chart. (This only works for…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/320104314http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/320104314Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:29:54 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/upcoming-wordcamps/">Upcoming WordCamps</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>We’ve said it before, and we’ll probably say it again: attending a WordCamp is one of the most enjoyable ways to meet other WordPress users and learn new tricks that you can use on your site….</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/317098524http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/317098524Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:36:35 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/24/new-theme-duotone/">New Theme: Duotone</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Happy Holidays! To spice up the coming weekend I’m here to present you with Duotone. Duotone is the successor to our highly popular photo blogging theme, Monotone. Duotone is very similar, but…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/299156222http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/299156222Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:49:08 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/holiday-wallpaper/">WordPress Holiday Desktop Wallpapers</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><img style="margin-left:20px;" src="http://wpcom.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/wpholiday-1024x768.png?w=480" alt="" title="WordPress Wonderland" class="alignright size-full wp-image-1607"/>This year, we teamed up with San Francisco artist <a href="http://coley.me/" target="_blank">Coley Wopperer</a> to spread some WordPress-themed holiday cheer. We thought it turned out so well, we wanted to share it with everyone as a…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/295152299http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/295152299Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:22:07 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/email-geolocation/">Email Geolocation</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/geo-email11.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3389" title="geo email1" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/geo-email11.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="250"/></a>If you haven’t already tried our <strong>post by email</strong> feature then it makes blog publishing as simple as sending an email. <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/" target="_blank">Configure your blog</a>, write an email, and we’ll do the rest. You can…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/293757515http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/293757515Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:57:54 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/support-holiday-hours/">Support Holiday Hours</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Happy holidays from the WordPress.com Happiness Team! We’re working hard getting ready for the holidays and <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/a-little-snow-for-the-holidays/" target="_blank">sheltering from the snow</a>.</p> <p>We will be closing support for one week in order to spend…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/289267607http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/289267607Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:15:37 -0600<p>ran 0.35 mi on 11/24/2009 at 10:29 AM with a pace of 13’43”/mi <a href="http://bit.ly/66RO1N" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/66RO1N</a></p>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/289256091http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/289256091Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:03:10 -0600<p>Just discovered this. It’s amazing and sad and funny, go look NOW! <a href="http://aliceandkev.wordpress.com" target="_blank">http://aliceandkev.wordpress.com</a> #thesims3</p>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/285022066http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/285022066Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:20:01 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/twitter-api/">Post and Read via Twitter API</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>The other day <a href="http://ma.tt/2009/11/micro-blogging-vs-mega-blogging/" target="_blank">I talked about micro-blogging and mega-blogging</a> and shared my view that new forms of social media, including micro-blogging, are complementary to blogging. We’ve seen <a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-18-mFEk4J448M" target="_blank">ongoing…</a></p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/280679511http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/280679511Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:17:43 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/november-wrap-up-3/">November Wrap-Up</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p>Before we get to the stats, I should mention that at the top of my thankful-for list this Thanksgiving was our growing group of Automatticians. <a href="http://automattic.com/about/" target="_blank">These are the folks</a> who bring you the awesome…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/274485748http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/274485748Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:41:03 -0600<a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/a-little-snow-for-the-holidays/">A Little Snow for the Holidays</a>: <div class="snap_preview"> <br/><p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3250 alignright" title="nick-snow2" src="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/files/2009/12/nick-snow2.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225"/>I’ve seen my fair share of snow growing up in northern Michigan. The sun was shining today, but there is a good chance we’ll have snow on the ground by the end of the week. My favorite…</p> </div>http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/266952881http://brandonlusk.tumblr.com/post/266952881Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:14:09 -0600