We’ll cover features that are often overlooked, we’ll highlight plugins that extend WordPress functionality, and we’ll showcase interesting sites being built with WordPress.

From the description, it sounds like the WordPress Publisher Blog aims to be Automattic’s in-house version of Weblog Tools Collection, currently the leading source for news on WordPress plugins and themes.

Curiously, unless you look at the WordPress Publisher Blog‘s feed, you won’t know that the author of the posts (so far) is Automattic’s Raanan Bar-Cohen.