WordPress dominates Technorati Top 100, Movable Type second

CMSWire have been looking into what the Technorati Top 100 sites are using to power their words, and WordPress is a whopping victor at 34%. Second is Movable Type with 16%. Check out the full report here, with a hat tip to the WordPress Publishing Blog.

Automattic secures $29.5m in funding, WordPress creator happy

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, founded on the success of blogging platform WordPress (which BloggerTalks incidentally uses) by Matt Mullenweg, have raised another $29.5m in funding, with The New York Times opening its wallet. Matt himself have a post up, calling it Act 2 for Automattic, and takes a look in the rear view mirror [...]

Alex King on WordPress development, the community and the Share Icon project

Bloggertalks to Alex King about being a Wordpress plugin developer, the 2.1 version, the Share Icon project and more.