year in review
The top 10 posts of 2024: the top 5
The five most read posts of last year were very concerned with audience, the fate of WordPress — and a long gone lads' mag.
The Sun
Spinning the digital news cycle
The Sun's starting to gate its content, and local news is putting up a paywall. No, this isn't a post from 2014 — this is happening now.
Threads
How many people are you?
Meta is up to its old tricks, the WordPress meltdown continues, and Shorts aren't long enough, it seems. Happy Monday!
WordPress
WordPress just lost its default status for publishers
The battle between Automattic and WP Engine has exposed an unexpected vlunerability of the WordPress ecosystem — and it's one publishers should be wary of.
WordPress
What the hell is happening at Automattic (part 2)?
The CEO of Automattic has declared war on WP Engine as a bad citizen of the WordPress ecosystem. What the hell is going on?
Automattic
What the hell is happening at Automattic?
The WordPress.com company is selling posts from that site and Tumblr to AI companies — while its CEO scraps with a banned user online. Which is… fine?
X (Twitter)
Cuttings #6: Blogging Elephants and Banned Influencers
Plus what could be Elon's strategy for X, and a useful newsletter tool…
niche
Metamorphosis of the Journalist
In today’s round-up of good internet reading, we learn to love the niche, look (again( at newsletters, and get attention hacking
local journalism
Facebook's donations won't save local journalism, but better CMSes just might
This week, Facebook has joined Google in throwing millions at the local news business. Is this really going to help the industry recover - or should we bee looking elsewhere?
ghost
The Haunting of One Man & His Blog
One Man & His Blog is now running on Ghost - and here's why.
blog platforms
The Sun runs on WordPress
Things I didn’t know [https://vip.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/bigwp-returns-to-london-next-week/]: > News UK moved thesun.co.uk to WordPress.com VIP last summer, becoming the fastest growing newspaper site in the UK, with well over 20 million monthly unique visitors, and tens of millions of page views
cms
Condé Nast buys a WordPress plugin
Condé Nast buys a WordPress plugin [https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/conde-nast-acquires-poetica-twitter-engineer-1201719426/] > Condé Nast said Poetica’s product, as well as its engineering and design team, will help it “seamlessly and quickly” deliver content to audiences across multiple platforms. The Poetica system will be integrated into Condé Nast’