We kicked off July with an open vote on new media features. Thanks to all of you who voted and submitted comments. Your feedback determines the future of WordPress.

Later in the month we introduced PollDaddy ratings and polls, the Gravatar widget, and the archives shortcode (one of many you can check out here).

Here are July’s stats:

• 394,609 blogs were created.
• 5,666,839 posts were published.
• 418,946 new users joined.
• 6,594,795 file uploads.
• 3,762 gigabytes of new files.
• 839 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters.
• 7,890,707 comments.
• 6,681,646 logins.
• 1,253,217,900 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 1,289,187,116 on self-hosted blogs (2,542,405,016
  total across all WordPress blogs we track).
• 2,146,576 active blogs where “active” means they got a human visitor.
• 1,419,364,230 words.

Plus:

,035 posts via the new WordPress for BlackBerry Public Beta.

WNET.ORG published a whitepaper about their experience launching multiple sites with WordPress MU.

Telegraph blogs relaunched using WordPress MU; FADER relaunched using WordPress; and Tasty Kitchen launched a community site on the BuddyPress platform.

WordCamps in July: WordCamp Montreal and WordCamp UK.

WordCamps coming up in August: WordCamp New Zealand and WordCamp Huntsville.