WordPress: the Quiet Revolution Taking the Web by Storm

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There are certain enabling technologies which change the way we think, the way we act.

Microsoft. Apple. Netscape. Wikipedia. Google. Facebook. Twitter.

WordPress.

Yes, WordPress!

Microsoft and Apple provided a necessary hardware.

Netscape and Google provided the web as we know it today.

Facebook, Twitter and WordPress are enabling person-to-person communication.

Writing web pages used to be time consuming. Not particularly difficult, but definitely time consuming. Building a website was even more time consuming. Building large, content-driven websites such as the WordPress system cost millions of dollars just a few years ago. Now, you can install WordPress for free using an incredibly inexpensive internet hosting company… of which there are thousands.

The barrier to entry to the internet is almost gone… for both reading… and writing.

WordPress helps fulfill the original promise of the World Wide Web, where knowledge can be shared, modified, extended, criticized, categorized and celebrated. By anyone. By everyone. Easily.

WordPress makes sharing trivial. Want to collaborate? Easy, set up a couple of accounts on a WordPress blog… you’re in business.

Don’t like something? Leave a comment.

Want to know what people think? Ask for feedback, allow comments.

Need a website for your small (or even large) business? Easy. Use WordPress. At least for getting started! If you need more later, your existing WordPress site can be moved when you know exactly what you need.

It’s funny how all those other technologies get the lion’s share of the press and public attention. While the underlying WordPress technology just keeps chugging along, powering more and more sites, serving more and more pages, quietly, without calling attention to itself, just getting the job done.

Here’s my prediction, based on watching the internet evolve for over 15 years: because WordPress enables the web equivalent of email (and usenet) spam, within a very short time, 90% of the publicly available web will consist of spam blogs… powered by WordPress! If that isn’t success, I don’t know what is!

First person to leave a comment telling me what I think half the remaining web pages will serve gets a half hour of free coaching (offer expires August 7).