Monday 16 September 2013

How Wordpress Used VideoConferencing and IRC to Change the World


I’ve been reading Scott Berkun’s book The Year Without Pants which details his working life at Wordpress. The book reveals a thought-provoking collection of lore behind Wordpress and in particular, the day-to-day operations of a distributed volunteer team who built a technology that powers about 20% of the internet.
Scott embeds insightful gems about daily startup work life into his stories. My favorite so far is this one:
“Most people doubt online meetings can work, but they somehow overlook that most in-person meetings don’t work either.”
It’s a brilliant little dagger into the argument for in-person meetings. He continues,

How Wordpress Used VideoConferencing and IRC to Change the World

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