Why WordPress ISN’T A Good Choice For Your Website
Last month I did a guest article for Jemima Gibbons monthly newsletter on Freshbusinessthinking.com about Social Media Monitoring and Analytics. In that same newsletter Nikki Pilkington argued why WordPress is a good choice for your webs…
Product or Platform?
Just read this lengthy discussion of the dynamics of the ‘war’ between WordPress and Movable Type for the hearts and minds of bloggers – written by a former Movable Type product manager (and current partner) but in a very evenhanded fashion. There’s a great deal of information here and I recommend reading the entire post, [...]
Trouble in WordPress Land. Here’s the Band-Aid
If you run a WordPress blog and can’t get into your Admin Panel today, you’re not alone. Or to be more specific, you can get in for a second, then the page blanks out. If you are fast enough to click on a function in that second, you’re lucky – or if you know the [...]
Retiring Ecto
I have used Ecto to write my blog posts for almost as long as I’ve been writing this blog. I just like having an offline editor to write with and doing so gives me the added benefit of having an offline archive of everything I have published, plus Ecto handles images really well and like [...]
Vox Shutting Down
Six Apart is shutting down their Vox blogging service at the end of September. I’m surprised it has taken this long… I, like most people, never got why Vox even launched in the first place but it’s a great lesson in product portfolio management. Vox was originally pitched as a blogging platform that embraced video [...]
Column 2 Now on PressHarbor
I’ve been seeing some performance problems with this blog, and have moved it over to PressHarbor on the advice of my friend Joey, who uses it for his very popular blog that sees a lot more traffic that I do. I’ve also changed the theme to a cleaner look that supports a few additional features [...]
Blogging and Branding, and Learning about MX Records
Where to host your blog? Do it yourself? Let your blog provider (like WordPress) do it? Use a hosting company? I was struggling with these ideas last week, and ultimately came up with a very simple model. If this is not of interest to you, stop reading now. It’s just a little personal tale. My [...]
About that Second “S” in SaaS – Awesome Service
”There is an app for that” – say the Apple commercials. “There is a plugin for that” – was my conclusion, while lookin for the rigth tools to move the Enterprise Irregulars blog to WordPress a few months ago. Seriously. The WordPress ecosystem is simply amazing, things that a few years ago required messing with [...]
WordPress and the Dark Side of Multitenancy
Quite a bit of hubbub over WordPress’s recent outage. A number of high profile blogs including Techcrunch, GigaOm, CNN, and your very own SmoothSpan use WordPress. Matt Mullenweg told Read/WriteWeb: “The cause of the outage was a very unfortunate code change that overwrote some key options in the options table for a number of blogs. We [...]
Include All Comments on Blog? No. But Please – Jump In!
By Merv Adrian on June 3, 2010
I post and respond to all substantive comments. But I’ve had questions from readers who didn’t see theirs. Understandably, they wanted to know why. Here’s how I handle comments: If they are about the content – they go up. Agree, disagree, it’s all good. Dialogue is exactly the point. If they are just “I liked [...]
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