Aside: I wanted to call this post “If NASA is using WordPress, does that make it Rocket Science?”, but the logical, user-friendly, SEO-loving part of my brain won out over the funny part. Sorry about that.

I discovered tonight (via @raanan) that NASA is not only using WordPress, but using it so much they have created user guides for their departments. How cool is that?

There’s a lot of other high profile and amazing sites using WordPress listed the WP Publisher Spotlight. Here’s a few I found interesting:

• UBC’s Place of Mind – a UBC community site to aggregate content from blogs, YouTube, Flickr, etc.
• The Ann Arbor Chronicle – an online newspaper from Michigan. My favourite part is “Stopped. Watched.” — quick updates from members of the community.
• The Tasty Kitchen – a community website for recipes. It’s using BuddyPress, a group of plug-ins that turn WordPress into a social networking site (sort of like a niche Facebook).

There are so many more interesting publishers, from the Wall Street Journal, to the UK Royal Navy and Prime Minister’s sites, to Martha Stewart. The WordPress Publisher Spotlight is worth a look to see the breadth of possibilities with the platform.