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6 sites recommended by WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg

By thomascrampton ⋅ April 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

At yesterday’s WordCamp in Hong Kong I had the pleasure of interviewing Wordpress.com founder Matt Mullenweg about blogs, blogging and how he came to found one of the world’s largest blog-hosting companies. (WordPress.org is the open source blog and WordPress.com is one of Matt’s companies)

While it was difficult to take notes while interviewing Matt, I did jot down a few interesting sites he mentioned. I’ll be moderating a few more events while he is in Hong Kong, so hope to do a video or two before the week is out. Let me know if you have an specific questions.

Microblogging:

Matt says he is a great fan of micro-blogging and uses Twitter all the time. As for those to watch for the greatest innovation, Matt recommended:

  1. Plurk
  2. Tumblr
  3. Twitter
  4. Facebook

Blogging:

Matt highlighted two sites as offering interesting new twists on blogging:

  1. Posterous - a site that allows you to collect items found while surfing the net, simply by sending in an email
  2. P2 - a site Matt advocates as a way to rid yourself of email clutter. P2 combines microblogging with a thread system, allowing you to share short messages among a small group

Asked by a member of the audience about the future of blogging, I limited Matt to the Twitter limit of fewer than 140 characters. His reply:

The future of blogging is Multimodal.

By that, he means that blogging will include more video, image and sound, to reflect the evolution of our online life.

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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...