WordPress Sold to Murdoch!

In a shocking move for all wordpress bloggers it was revealed late yesterday that wordpress.com has been sold to Newscorp in a deal worth around 125 million dollars.

Automattic, who own wordpress said:

“We would like to thank all the bloggers out there who made wordpress the success story it is today. We have every assurance that Newscorp will continue to maintain the high standard of service wordpress users have come to expect and wish them well in this new venture.”

WordPress supremo Toni Schneider left Oddpost when they were taken over by yahoo in 2005 and was unavailable for comment last night.

Newscorp have bought the entire Automattic company which also provide the wordpress open source blogging software and Akismet anti-spam protection.

It is believed by some insiders that the entire wordpress management team may be laid off and that eventually the wordpress platform will be merged into myspace.

A Newscorp source told Wired magazine that they were hoping to move myspace upmarket in an attempt to rival facebook.

It is believed that Newscorp will roll out mandatory advertising on all wordpress blogs.

Many wordpress bloggers (including this one) are already considering boycotting the site in future and are looking for a new platform.

schrödinger’s blog

Is it a paradox to exist on both blogger and wordpress at the same time?

We’re moving over here for good for now until we get our own servers based on Mars with a firewall made of real fire. Google were kinda alright about the recent banning incident but it got us a-thinking.

Google own blogspot, they also own the biggest search engine in the world as well as recently buying feedburner who publish our feed. If we nark off google we is fucked. And google are cunts.

So we’re taking our eggs out of one basket and spreading the love around a bit, with the confidence that we can nark off both google and wordpress and hopefully stay alive on the net for a little bit longer.

We’ll probably cross post a bit during the interim period but then the blogspot site will have to die, c’est la mort.

The blog roll’s finished, some blogs didn’t survive the transition, soz. And maybe we’ll get the hang of them there tags and categories. Not sure about the template, but it will do for now.

So hang tight and we’ll be back with more insurrectionary drivel in the ‘morrow.