Pictured above is Matt Mullenweg (the co-founder of WordPress), holding a Crunchie award (designed after a famous scene in Stanley Kubrick’s movie, Space Odyssey). WordPress is now used to power the blogs of many mainstream media (NY Times, WSJ, CNN, Fox, Time and People). The New York Times even invested in the WordPress company, Automattic. (Here’s the article about it in the New York Times.)

In the field of prediction markets, WordPress powers Midas Oracle, the HubDub blog, the (temporarily off) Consensus Point blog, the NewsFutures blog, Jed Christiansen’s blog, Justin Wolfer’s Freakonomics co-blog, the (anemic) Xpree blog, Andrew “Bert” Black’s blog, Mike Smithson’s blog, David Pennock’s (almost abandoned) blog, the (terminated) Yootles blog, the (non-updated) WSX blog, the UsableMarkets blog, the AskMarkets blog, and maybe later the blog from another software vendor.

And you wont be surprised ( ) to hear that the BetFair blog is not powered by WordPress —but by MovableType.

UPDATE: And WordPress is the most popular CMS among the Top-100 blogs.