Epistemographer

Fascinating case that lays bare some of the fundamental assumptions (and internal contradictions) of an open source community:
* “Matt Mullenweg”:http://photomatt.net creates “Wordpress”:http://wordpress.org
* Wordpress gets “popular”:http://www.daveschalkboard.com/index.php/archives/2005/03/13/how-popular-is-wordpress/ and grows an “open source”:http://wordpress.org/about/ “community”:http://wordpress.org/development/
* Matt makes a decision to spend some of Wordpress’ “whuffie”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie, “gets”:http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml “caught”:http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/04/01/wordpres.shtml, “responds”:http://photomatt.net/2005/04/01/a-response/
Takehome questions – how much agency does the founder of an open [...]