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Full story: WordPress: a poster child for open source accessibilityYesterday May 27, 2023, was a milestone date in the history of WordPress, marking the 20th year since the first version 0.70 was publicly released on May 27, 2003. In all, the open-source software has gone through 47 public versions over the past 20 years to its current version 6.2.2, evolving along the way from a self-hosted blogging platform into a full-blown content management system. According to a W3Techs metrics report updated today: WordPress is used by 63.2% of all…
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Full story: Bluesky leads the alt-Twitter packSince Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter last October, much discussion has ensued on finding an alternative social networking platform where unhappy Twitter users could migrate from Twitter and leave the uncertainty and chaos behind. In the past month, one name has gathered significant momentum and come to the head of attention – Bluesky. Bluesky is a new social network founded by Jack Dorsey, one of the three founders of Twitter, built very much to look and feel like…
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Full story: Of Zadok the Priest, Katy Perry, Take That, and climate changeI have a few takeaways from this Coronation Weekend of pomp, pageantry and rock ‘n’ roll I’d like to share that characterised the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday 6 May and the coronation concert at Windsor Castle on Sunday 7 May. Like millions of people in the UK and many more millions around the world, we watched the coronation ceremony live on the BBC. It was all you’d expect from an event like this and the BBC’s mastery…
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Full story: The Twitter end gameThe phrase “end of days” came to my mind as I reviewed a number of critical news reports during this past week about the current state of Twitter. The forthcoming demise of Twitter, sooner or later, is the strong thread running through all of this content, assessing the situation and arriving at this conclusion from many different routes. A consistent narrative underpinning everything is a standard view that Twitter has gone to the dogs under Elon Musk’s leadership. Some reports…
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Full story: Rishi Sunak connects on LinkedIn LiveToday the UK government launched Business Connect, described as a new conference that champions the dynamism of UK businesses to unlock innovation and grow the economy. Or, as The Times puts it, a charm offensive with business. It’s also a means by which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak can engage in small-group conversation that will let him pitch his wares, as it were, more directly and personally. As part of this charm offensive (I like The Times’ moniker), Sunak presented himself…
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