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Why WordPress? – the Tumblr Question

I just read the strangest apologia for a new service: Uh, why’s the official Tumblr blog on WordPress? (broken link – http://blog.davidville.com/2007/02/23/why-wordpress/#comments)

Simply – all the CMSy stuff it comes with. Blogs are an awesome platform. WordPress lets our entire staff contribute to the same blog, maintain tags and slugs, save and give feedback on drafts, upload and store media, back and forward publish posts, group our archive by month, lets our audience comment, lists trackbacks, et cetera, et cetera. It’s awesome! Blogs rock! But we knew this. WordPress is the perfect way for a business like ours to communicate with our audience.

Sounds good to me. David Karp goes on to write about the advantages of Tumblr: “posting with zero obligations, little or no comment”. Great for wisecracking, difficult for communicating.

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Current WordPress 2.4 Admin Theme a Disappointment

WordPress are finally getting around to updating the Admin theme.

This is a great idea. From the beginning WordPress has generally looked great when going out with visitors but she dresses awfully sloppily around the house.

The front end just keeps getting better as the backend stagnates.

Unfortunately, current previews of the updated WordPress 2.4 Admin interface show a getup which looks worse if anything, than what’s there now.

I’m having visions of Mambo circa 2004. What’s with the dreadful new brown and orange? The blue on blue colour scheme is about all the WordPress Admin Panel has going for it aesthetically.

The only good looking Admin interface for WordPress has been Steve Smith’s  WordPress Tiger Administration, which first saw the light of day in June 2005. 

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