Blogging
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.)
Global Neighborhoods
I got Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s Naked Conversations for Christmas — which I’ll read after finishing another Christmas gift, John Batelle’s The Search, which I read between workouts and Guild Wars snowball fights, which will be followed by another Christmas gift, Zig Ziglar’s Secrets of Closing the Sale. Yup, fun-filled Holidays. I have yet to enjoy the red wine Inquirer gave me, because I’ll share it with a lovely young lady to welcome 2007.
Next Christmas, I hope to get the follow-up Shel’s working on: Global Neighborhoods. Click here to continue reading “Global Neighborhoods”…
