Comments on: Telegraph moves its blogs to WordPress http://puffbox.com/2009/06/25/telegraph-moves-its-blogs-to-wordpress/ Simon Dickson blogs about online news, e-government and the New Politics. Some important people read it. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:55:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Telegraph Relaunches Blogs on WordPress | Interconnect IT - wordpress consultancy, web development and design in Liverpool http://puffbox.com/2009/06/25/telegraph-moves-its-blogs-to-wordpress/#comment-2601 Telegraph Relaunches Blogs on WordPress | Interconnect IT - wordpress consultancy, web development and design in Liverpool Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:12:11 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=966#comment-2601 [...] interest in The Telegraph’s move by such important figures as Kevin Anderson at the Guardian, Simon Dickson (a WordPress friendly rival who specialises in e-Government sites), and others is anything to go by then WordPress is booming in the news sector.  Good! Posted on [...] [...] interest in The Telegraph’s move by such important figures as Kevin Anderson at the Guardian, Simon Dickson (a WordPress friendly rival who specialises in e-Government sites), and others is anything to go by then WordPress is booming in the news sector.  Good! Posted on [...]

]]> By: David Coveney http://puffbox.com/2009/06/25/telegraph-moves-its-blogs-to-wordpress/#comment-2594 David Coveney Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:15:48 +0000 http://puffbox.com/?p=966#comment-2594 Thanks for the mention Simon! Competitors we are, I suppose, but we're in this together and I don't think we've ever been bidding for the same project? It's good to see the interest in WordPress - it seems to have all started in a big way late last year. In fact, just look at the Alexa traffic for the big themes clubs and they all had big growth spurts last autumn. Something happened, though I'm not sure what. Incidentally, I reckon that implementing with WP over a proprietary system saves around £20k-£30k for most magazines and newspapers, whether for blogging or something else. And because it's open source, you don't get the risk of the suppliers going bust, as happened for the Telegraph's previous blogging system.... Thanks for the mention Simon! Competitors we are, I suppose, but we're in this together and I don't think we've ever been bidding for the same project?

It's good to see the interest in WordPress - it seems to have all started in a big way late last year. In fact, just look at the Alexa traffic for the big themes clubs and they all had big growth spurts last autumn. Something happened, though I'm not sure what.

Incidentally, I reckon that implementing with WP over a proprietary system saves around £20k-£30k for most magazines and newspapers, whether for blogging or something else. And because it's open source, you don't get the risk of the suppliers going bust, as happened for the Telegraph's previous blogging system....

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