The Future of Blogging According to Matt

Matt’s up on stage with Liz Lawley of Microsoft Research talking about the future of blogging as the final session at the Blog Business Summit.

It has been a fun conversation with Liz and Matt taking different sides in terms of the importance of community vs. technology. Here are some of my favorite conversations (Some of these may only be paraphrasing).

Matt: “As technologies, we tell a Noble Lie.”

The idea is that the technologists are telling everyone the technology is going to rule the day, but in reality, the technology has been around for a while. What is new is that we have an audience to read the massive amount of content that has been created!

Matt: “When we look at the search engines like Google… and Yahoo and Microsoft… I feel bad like I have to do equal opportunity pimping when I’m on stage…”

Host: “What do you see as the future of the internet?”
Matt: “I don’t know… Don’t even want to guess at that. The reason I’m up here on stage is timing. WordPress is here because of timing.”

Host: “If you could buy any companies today, who would it be? Who is doing things right?”
Matt: “The companies I’m going to buy is Amazon and Sun. Sun is the only company that is innovating at a lower level. and Amazon is doing the same thing: they are making it a true grid… That is going to be the platform where the next generation of the web is being built.”
Liz: “I would agree with Amazon. I would also buy Six Apart. They recognize the way people are using the web and the way people network at these low levels.”

Matt also unleashed the news that the new version of WordPress (2.0.5) was just released. Note that the first released version of WordPress MU (1.0!) was also released recently. We used WPMU to build out the Move Blogs. The flexibility in design that this tool provides in terms of upgrades and design is awesome and I can’t wait until we get the chance to upgrade to this version!

Tags: blog, BlogBusinessSummit, blogging, future, Microsoft, opportunity, wordpress, wordpress2.0.5, wpmu

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