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Middleton Place
This past weekend, I went to a meetup in Charleston, South Carolina. While I was there, I learned a few things about South Carolina, including that they believe that calling a cockroach something else makes it less of a cockroach (it does not), and that the beach had phenomenal shells. I was only there for…
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What I do
Last autumn, I wrote a post about being a woman at Automattic, and a bit about applying here (yes! we are hiring). Since then, I’ve been frequently asked what it is, exactly, that I do. I’m a Happiness Engineer. My super-super-super short answer is that I help people with their WordPress.com blogs. This is mostly…
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2013: A Year in Review

Originally posted on WordPress.com News: With 2013 behind us, we can now take a look at our community’s incredible accomplishments over the past year. Here’s the year that was on WordPress.com. 13,704,819 new blogs in 2013 That’s a 36% increase from 2012, during which you created 10 million new blogs. 489,281,136 posts in 2013 That’s…
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,300 times in 2013. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to…


