Wordpress

Normally, when something isn’t working, I get a little annoyed. However, with WordPress, you just have to smile.

I had a beautifully crafted draft that said… So MySpace has a staggering 55 million users (well 54 million angst ridden, teen blogs with garish colours, dodgy photos and flash animations galore) while the more recently launched WordPress.com has a mere 110,000 blogs but a far more discerning, perceptive, technically minded and intelligent user base. Quality not quantity. …but now I see the most popular WordPress tag is ‘LECTURES’ so maybe WordPress also has 109,998 students, a Microsoft blogging evangelist and me. ...

Thanks to AtariBoy, we now know what it takes to feature on ‘Top WordPress.com blogs today’. 11,706 hits (at least). Hmm. Way to go. As our American friends say.

Just noticed that those nice people at Wordpress.com have added aggregated statistics over 7 and 30 days. A software company that actually listens to their users and ' eats their own dog food’. Interesting concept but I don’t think it will ever take off.

You spend 3 months watching your WordPress statistics bumbling along the horizontal axis close to zero. Some traffic dribbles in. The graph accelerates into 10’s of hits daily. You feel better. You will persist with this blogging experiment for a little longer. At this rate, it may soon be time to consider a proper blog using WordPress.org and Adsense to make the millions that eluded me during the dot com boom. ...