The News Review:
- Thoughts on Wordpress fficial Plugins Directory
- Building a better blogosphere
- Best Buy swallows Speakeasy whole
- Chief execs urged to get blogging
Thoughts on Wordpress fficial Plugins Directory
WebProNews – Mar 27, 2007
There are lots of good plugins out there that are not in any sort of searchable database other than a search engine. However the Wordpress plugin directory isn’t living up to my excitations yet. The directory holds less than 150 plugins out of the thousands out there. What is there seems to be organized well and has a nice star rating scale installation information screenshots a FAQ and even download stats for the plugin.
Building a better blogosphere
The Age – Mar 27, 2007
And most importantly he’s not underestimating the influence ofMatt Mullenweg. More than a member of the blogosphere Mr Mullenweg could bedescribed as one of its chief architects. He is a co-founder ofWordPress the popular open-source blogging software that helpedfuel the explosion of blogs as a publishing tool. The software isused by The New York Times The Wall Street Journal CNN CNETHarvard Ford Yahoo! and Southwest Airlines as well as 700000bloggers on WordPress. com and hundreds of thousands of individualblogs. Mr Mullenweg has also helped create a highly effective solutionto blogging’s most pervasive problem – comment spam – helped definenew HTML mark-up protocols and created a highly popular blogupdate notification service. All of this by the time mostuniversity graduates are handed a diploma… “The more people trying it the better” Mr Mullenweg sayspreaching the “release early release often” approach thatcharacterises many successful open-source software projects. “Yourbest feedback will come from your first 100 or so users. Based on the community’s enthusiasm the core team of WordPresscontributors rapidly grew to “between 75 and 150″. As with otheropen-source projects the appeal of creating a great product wonout over financial incentives. “Money and salary is not a particularly good motivator in thelong term” Mr Mullenweg says. “What you really want is a strongpersonal and emotional investment. For some developers tied to boring careers working withWordPress code was a thrill.
Best Buy swallows Speakeasy whole
Register – Mar 27, 2007
Speakeasy also stood out for its lack of bandwidth caps and the tolerance it showed to customers who shared their connections with neighbors. Today’s announcement raises the question: Can Speakeasy’s reputation for attentiveness and tech saviness survive in a Fortune 100 company better known for quantity than quality? Despite an email to Speakeasy subscribers from the company’s CE promising there would be no changes bloggers are decidedly skeptical. “I chose Speakeasy eight years ago because they openly welcomed and supported Linux” someone at The Command Line.
Chief execs urged to get blogging
iT News – Mar 27, 2007
The SEC questioned Sun last year about its use of blogs. Sun’s general counsel is meeting with the SEC this week to explain its use of the medium as well as the traffic that Schwartz’s blog attracts. Blogs are more than just another PR tool according to Schwartz who cited the case of a complaint by Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg about Sun’s unresponsive sales programme for start-ups. Schwartz responded to the complaint with a. ”Everybody at Sun felt bad.