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It’s Hard to COPE Without a WordPress Lite

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Dan Knauss
It's still far from simple to do well — let alone do better — what was first possible in the Web 1.0 era, even before WordPress was born. Thoughts on "WordPress Lite" and "Create Once, Publish Everywhere."

An Operating System for the Web

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Dan Knauss
What if WordPress, growing as an operating system for the web, spawns distributions and spins, like Linux? What do nine years of Jetpack teach us about Automattic and WordPress — the project and the dot-com? Rethinking how we think about SaaS, hosting, and the WordPress ecosystem...

Substacking the Deck 🃏 Jared Newman…

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Dan Knauss

Substacking the Deck 🃏 Jared Newman notes over at FastCompany that "writers who crave independence should skip Substack." He refers to several WordPress-powered alternatives, including Newsletter Glue "which lets me instantly send out WordPress posts as nicely formatted newsletters." ✉️…

I listened to this interview with…

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Dan Knauss

I listened to this interview with Chris Best, the CEO of Substack and found it very interesting, especially for his thoughts about the attention advantage with email. There's also a small bit on the role of CMSs in an age…
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