Rid the Philippines of N00bs!

Filipino tech blogger Jepoy Bengero posts his predictions for 2007. Number two is especially sigh-inducing.

More Filipino idiots will be online, and would be jumping into international message boards showing how stupid they are, dragging us with them.

With twenty million Filipinos going online in 2007, he’s probably right. This is why I’m brutal to n00bs, especially n00bs in Philippine business. The faster they can be educated or eradicated, the faster the Philippines can enter Web 2.0.

With Filipinos rapidly adopting social media, the Philippines’ smartest are only getting smarter. N00bs have only two choices: wise up or wipe out. To anyone who holds my country back by spreading ignorance, I will show no mercy.

Wired Cites WordPress as Acquisition Bait

WordPress, the insanely extensible and customizable open-source content management system that powers this blog, has been tagged by Wired magazine as acquisition bait in its January 2007 isssue.

The new de rigueur blog-management software, WordPress is favored by the majority of high-traffic posters. One caveat: It’s open source and unlikely to accept a corporate come-on.

Personally, I don’t think WordPress needs some big corporate owner to slow it down. It has long risen to the top of the blog software heap on its own, powered by its incredibly active developer community. With the rise of problogging, WordPress doesn’t need a centralized business model to drive its development — developers tweak it to make better blogs that can make more money, and those who package and release those tweaks gain fame and could make even more money. Mammals don’t need to be chained to dinosaurs.

(Via Dave Jackson.)