Blogging Pro features an interview with Matthew Mullenweg. Matt is a founding developer of WordPress blogging software. You can read more about him at the About page of his blog. The interview is mostly about WordPress, Matt’s company Automattic, and blogging in general. Below are a few quotes that I particularly enjoyed.

About the fear of competition:

don’t take competition too seriously, you have to do your own thing and not focus on other projects

About GPL and Open Source:

I don’t consider any GPL software competition, because development on one piece of software can directly benefit another, and I will always promote other open source software whether it does the same thing as WordPress or not because at the end of the day we’re all really on the same team. I believe Open Source is the future.

More about competition:

if someone could take a product we wrote and do a better job with it then they deserve the success

Attitude towards Flickr and YouTube with some internal stats:

I think the success of services like Flickr and Youtube add to blogging, not take away from it. I’ll give you some private stats from inside WordPress.com.

On any given day, about 5% of the entries posted to WordPress.com contain a Flickr photo, and about 3% of the entries embed a Youtube video. We’re talking about tens of thousands of posts every week embedding Flickr or Youtube content, and I think that’s great.

About blogging:

Blogs serve as a personal aggregation point for people’s online activities. You might spread your junk all over the web, but most people like to bring it back together in someplace they own and can call their home, and for many that’s their blog.

There is more, so you better read the full interview with Matt.