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Why is Email So Hard?
As an Internet services consultant, I continuously deal with email. Next to the Web, email is one of the Internet services that is considered essential. Can you imagine running a business without email? Me either. But, increasingly so, running an email server is much more complicated than running a web server. Here’s the deal. A web server basically stands by itself. There’s a set of protocols (http, https) and languages (HTML, more or less) that have become more and more standard since the beginning of the…
Kenneth
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Matt Mullenweg is not WordPress
Updated Sep 30, 2024. Last week, Matt Mullenweg posted an article on WordPress.org highlighting some concerns about private equity investments and their inherent conflicts with the principles of open source software. Followed by a “spicy” talk at WordCamp US, this opinion (which singled out a particular company, WP Engine) has led to lawsuits and division in the WordPress developer community. I have been following the news at a distance, and I am not interested in taking sides at this point, but I did want to give…
Kenneth
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Do You Need a Website?
As a website consultant, I frequently talk to people about whether or not they need a website. Whether you are an individual, a community organization, or a for-profit business, a website is the most fundamental part of your online presence.
Kenneth
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