Jim and I consider ourselves lucky to count Matt Mullenweg as a friend. Over the past several years I’ve had the chance to talk with Matt over dinners etc and every time I learn something new and am even more amazed by him.

Who is Matt Mullenweg? He is the father of Wordpress. Yes, it’s now open source and lots of people, including other folks Jim and I know, are working on it, but Matt started it all. He is also the author of several key WP plugins maybe most importantly Akismet. Akismet is the uber anti-spam plugin for WP and MT. Matt talks about why he hasn’t made it open source and some of his other thoughts on Web 2.0 in this interview with Rafe Needleman of CNET.

This is certainly worth a watch (okay I listened).

Tags: Wordpress, Matt Mullenweg, Akismet