WordPressDirect: No fuss blogging or spammer’s delight?
November 24, 2008 by Joe Newman
Filed under From the Blogs
Michael Kinsley’s recent piece in Time online asked the question: “How many blogs does the world need?” Kinsley was wondering if, at this point in the history of the Internet, there was anyone out there without a blog?
The opportunity for us all to express an opinion is wonderful. Having to read all those opinions isn’t. In 2004 there were probably still more people reading blogs than writing them. Not so now, or so it seems.
I came across Kinsley’s piece after seeing a mention on Mashable about a new service for the would-be blogger who wants a blog but doesn’t actually want to, you know, do any writing.
Meet WordPressDirect, a blog-in-a-can service that will have your blog up and running in no time and all you have to do is enter some key words to describe what you’d like your blog to be about. WordPressDirect then scrapes different user-generated content sites, such as YouTube and Yahoo Answers, looking for content that matches your key words.
