Ars Technica forumgoers have voted for WordPress as the Web Application of the year!
WordPress is the most prominent rising star of weblog software, completely free and with a large and active community. Styles, plugins and hacks are readily available, with problems such as comment spamming being addressed far more rapidly than competing applications.
Founding member Larry Sanger has written a well considered article: Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism over at Kuro5hin. In it he explains why, as Wikipedia hits the big time, it has to address its perceived lack of credibility, and the dominance of difficult people and trolls. A couple of prominent articles last year brought the former problem into sharp relief.
He points to anti-elitism, or lack of respect for expertise
as the root cause of the problems. I have to agree with his reasoning, and also his prediction that unless it is addressed that there will be a ‘fork’ of the project with the express purpose of producing a vetted version of the work with a tangible level of credibility.
Hat tip to Matt
That’s another year nearly over. One in which I’ve had some major changes in my life. One which seemed to have flown by in retrospect (don’t they all?).
Next year will be another year of changes, with any luck the big changes will be the ones anticipated and planned for, like Jamie going to high school.
Of course, if everything that happened was expected and planned-for, life would be terribly boring. I just wouldn’t want to repeat some of the things that have happened this year.
I’m hoping to be a little more visible on line next year. I’m hoping to be much more organized and achieve some personal goals. I’m hoping that David Allen’s Getting Things Done will help. I must lose the weight I’ve gained since stopping cycling. I really want to swim more and get better at it. I want to do something more active with music. I don’t know what yet, but I have recently missed being a (very small) part of the music industry. There are a million software things I want to do! There are skills I want to gain, and experiences I want to… experience!
I don’t really expect to achieve a tenth of what I would like, but next year I am determined to do some of them.
Happy Birthday Kim
Lots of love from
Mike, Jan, and Jamie
xoxoxox
Happy Birthday Chloe
Lots of love,
Mike, Jan, & Jamie
xoxoxoxox
See you later…
Happy Birthday Kate
Lots of love,
Mike, Jan, and Jamie
xoxoxox
See you later.
The German WordPress user community sends their thanks to Matt, Ryan, and the crew. This is really nice. Each of the stars has a little pop-up message.
Hat tip: Matt
WordPress 1.2.2 is out. This is a minor release with some bugs fixed and a couple of security issues addressed.
You can download WordPress from the usual place.
