WordPress

Changes Members Public

One phase of my life ends. Another begins.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Giving OM&HB a little CloudFlare Members Public

[![Image representing CloudFlare as depicted in C...]()](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cloudflare)Image via [CrunchBase](http://www.crunchbase.com)A brief diversion into administrivia. People with no interest in self-hosted blog platforms can move right along. There’s nothing for the like of you here. 🙂This blog has languished

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Telling your readers where to go. Literally. Members Public

The decisions that newspapers make around “serving” their readers just astound me sometimes. Dave Winer on accessing the New York Post via his iPad [http://scripting.com/stories/2011/06/18/theNyPostTheIpadAndTheWeb.html]: > Today I was told by the Post that I couldn’t read the article on the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
iPad

WordPress, Six Apart silences and communities Members Public

The company that was Six Apart is gone. The name and Movable Type are ensconced in Japan [http://blog.saymedia.com/2011/01/movable-type-finds-new-home-at-infocom.html], Vox is dead and Typepad is part of SAY Media. It seems an appropriate time for a post-mortem, and that’s just what former Typepad

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Automattic

LeWeb: Where now for WordPress? Members Public

It’s been a tricky year in the blogging world – Six Apart, the traditional blog business representative at Le Web has gone, attention has shifted to things like Twitter and Facebook, and new services like Tumblr and Posterous are driving innovation. So, how do Matt Mullenweg [http://ma.tt/] and

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

What AOL and SAY: Media have in common: a platform Members Public

When the two acquisitions of the week meet: AOL’s new purchase TechCrunch [http://gigaom.com/2010/09/28/nailed-it-aol-bought-techcrunch/] talking to the new CEO of SAY:Media: Let’s be honest, that’s a great example of how talking heads video can be dull, but there is some interesting

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
AOL

Blogging: History and Misconceptions Members Public

This is long, but well worth sitting through to catch up with the ideas and concepts that have driven the success of blogging as a medium over the last decade. Don’t worry about the software stuff at the beginning – it rapidly moves beyond that.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
Blogging

Afternoon Tea Reading: National Newspapers Members Public

Some links about our friends in the nationals that have been hanging around in my Chrome tabs for too long now: * The Independent has switched its blogs from Livejournal to WordPress [http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/06/08/the-independent-switches-to-wordpress/] . Makes sense. LJ always seemed like an odd fit. * The Guardian

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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