Blogging
Happy Fourth Birthday, WordPress!
How appropriate that the world’s leading blog software started out as a blog post four years ago today.
What to do? Well, Textpattern looks like everything I could ever want, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to be licensed under something politically I could agree with. Fortunately, b2/cafelog is GPL, which means that I could use the existing codebase to create a fork, integrating all the cool stuff that Michel would be working on right now if only he was around. The work would never be lost, as if I fell of the face of the planet a year from now, whatever code I made would be free to the world, and if someone else wanted to pick it up they could. I’ve decided that this the course of action I’d like to go in, now all I need is a name. What should it do? Well, it would be nice to have the flexibility of MovableType, the parsing of TextPattern, the hackability of b2, and the ease of setup of Blogger. Someday, right?
Textpattern adopted a GPL in mid-2004, but it was too little, too late. Had it given itself to the world earlier, its code would’ve lived on in WordPress instead of fading into irrelevance. In a remix culture, generosity is the key to longevity.
(Via Mike Little.)
Philippine Blog Party Makes Technorati Top Ten
More proof Filipinos are taking over the blogosphere: the tag for the Philippine blog party this Saturday, blogparteeh07, is now the #7 top search on Technorati. It’s the #11 tag, too.
Note that the party hasn’t even happened yet. Imagine what’ll happen once the attendees, bloggers all, start tagging and sharing their photos, videos, and reports. Any flamers brave enough to fight me at the party will win a ton of social media mileage.
This is the power of a unique event tag: buzz marketing and monitoring. Thanks to Shari for the heads-up.
