Hey folks,

The wonderful people over at WordPress have a new version of the blog software that I installed and upgraded to. It has nice new editing features that some of you will notice if you add an article to the blog. It should all be mostly self explanatory, and I don’t see any issues with the stunningly easy upgrade.  If you don’t like the new editing features, you can turn them off and go back to the old one’s in your user profile.
A big additional feature is that this version supports some software that should filter out the spam advertising that we’ve been getting lately.

If you see spam, let me know, and I can mark it as spam. The whole system is a collaborative automated filtering system. This means that all comments are compared to spam from a whole bunch of blogs on the web (I think it is anyone running the new version of the Wordpress software.) Once one member of this club has marked something as spam, all the other members automatically benefit from the identification and any spam that matches the pattern is automatically rejected.
The whole open source (WordPress is free, open source software) thing is tremendously Green in its approach. Grass roots thinking locally (ie creating something for one’s own use) is shared with others, and the community as a whole benefits. The price is right, and the software actually evolves. Each user is empowered because he can dive into the guts of the software code and fix or fiddle to his/her heart’s content, the only stipulation is that his/her change is made available back to the community as a whole, completing the evolutionary cycle.

Wonderful model.

Oh, and let me know, by commenting here or emailing me, if you see anything about the blog that doesn’t look right to you. Maybe the upgrade didn’t work as flawlessly as I think.