How to delete your digital life
Wiping away your digital life means getting rid of the traces you've left – the mistakes you made, the embarrassing photos, the unwise comments, the flawed social media profiles where you've left too much visib...
Getting the blog spammers to hang up their affiliations
Affiliate schemes have been described as a good way to earn money without lifting a finger. Say you're a classic car enthusiast and create an interesting website about them: you'll attract like-minded visitors ...
Nominet’s new rules on .uk domains could mean the end to users’ privacy
Since Tuesday, running a personal website has become a privacy minefield for people using .uk domain names. A recent rule change by Nominet, the company which manages the .uk registry, means that domain name ow...
Turkish court bans Richard Dawkins website
A Turkish court has banned internet users from viewing the official Richard Dawkins website after a Muslim creationist claimed its contents were defamatory and blasphemous. Adnan Oktar, who writes under the ...
On a mission to democratise publishing – Matt Mullenweg interview
So what's the mission statement for Automattic / WordPress and how has this changed over time? Automattic's mission has always been very aligned with WordPress itself, which is to democratise publishing. Bas...
SoakSoak malware leaves 11,000 WordPress sites blacklisted by Google
More than 11,000 websites using the WordPress blogging platform have been blacklisted by Google, after they were infected by the “SoakSoak” malware. Security firm Sucuri, which first reported on the blackl...
WordPress pulls interview with anti-gay group Straight Pride UK
WordPress has removed an interview with the "homophobic" campaign Straight Pride UK after the group used US copyright law to issue a takedown notice. In an interview posted on his WordPress blog, student...
Could WordPress be the next Tumblr?
Giant media and internet companies keep scooping up social-media services: among others, MySpace went to News Corp, YouTube to Google, Instagram to Facebook, and now Tumblr to Yahoo. For the young founders and ...
WordPress in court victory over blogger censored by ‘Straight Pride UK’
After a two-year legal battle, journalist Oliver Hotham and Automattic, owners of blogging service Wordpress.com, have emerged victorious against an attempt to use an American copyright law to shut down critici...
WordPress makes a stand for open source morality
Matt Mullenweg, the 23-year-old who is the founding developer of the open source blogging software WordPress, woke up in March to find that disaster had struck. "A cracker gained user-level access to one of the...