Congratulations on WordPress 2.5

Congratulations to WordPress on the release of 2.5, "the culmination of six months of work by the WordPress community." While we've had our differences, there is one thing that unites we at Six Apart and the folks at WordPress -- a passion for blogging. As Matt puts it, this release:

reaffirms that we're as passionate about blogging as the day we started. Our community is too fierce to rest on its laurels -- contrary to what pundits claim, blogging is far from "finished" and every improvement just whets our appetite for more. And more is coming.

It's important for the community to know that while we do compete, the steps each of us take on our own platforms also move blogging itself forward, and that's healthy for the medium. Blogging is in a fantastic growth phase. Six Apart is growing tremendously well, as are all of our products and services, and so are Automattic and WordPress. Blogs and blog based businesses are becoming stronger and stronger and blogging is moving from an experiment to a strategy among large media and the corporate world. It continues to expand globally and new forms of blogging, such as Twitter, and blog ad networks, such as Federated Media, are also growing tremendously well. We all have a passion for this, perhaps matched only by the passion of the millions and millions of people who use our tools and services every day, and there is more innovation ahead of us than behind us.