Styled Bits runs the Wordpress weblog platform. It’s easy to install and maintain, outside of worrying about PHP vulnerabilities. I like to take a peek at what others are doing from time to time, and noticed that the plug-and-play version of Wordpress has a built-in community of sorts. I wonder how well it works: do Wordpress.com users follow the various tags of interest and contribute in meaningful ways to each others’ weblogs?
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I would say that there is little interaction within the WP.com community. The “tag-surfer” feature make it easy to see what other people have got to say about certain subjects, but I don’t think an “internal” community develops on account of it. The glory of WP.com, like an WP.org blog, is its ability bring in hits from all over the net.
I’m not certain about this, but I think you can link your own website into WP.com’s communities through the Akismet anti-spam feature. This would promote your blog in their tag-surfing pages.
e.g. http://wordpress.com/tag/halifax/
Thanks for the comment, Mitchell. I am seeing the truth in your statement, and went towards wordprss.com with the wrong ideas in my head.
I think that I’ll be better off moving to a standard, self-hosted wordpress.org site so I can have more control.
A worthy experiment, though.