Many of you have written in that CNN’s new Political Ticker blog is on WordPress. We know! They’re part of our VIP program which allowed them to launch quickly and serve millions of pageviews with no problems. The team there has launched dozens of blogs on the system, including ones for Fortune.com and CNN Money and is a real pleasure to work with. To the extent blogs are going to have an impact on the 2008 election they need to be able to reach millions of people in a short period of time without problems, I hope that WordPress.com provides that platform for folks. ¶
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Alex | June 7th, 2007 @ 2:49 am |
Nice. Good to see that WP is being recognized and used by such large companies.
Oluniyi David Ajao | June 7th, 2007 @ 3:25 am |
There is virtually no limit to what can be achieved with WordPress software. I have just checked-out the CNN political blog. It merges perfectly into the regular design of their news website.
I’d be using Wordpress as CMS for the portal of a radio station this week.
More grease to your elbow WordPress team.
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Jenny | June 7th, 2007 @ 8:34 am |
That’s pretty awesome.
Arash | June 7th, 2007 @ 10:32 am |
Great to see CNN use wordpress. I wonder if and when a company such as Yahoo, Microsoft or Google is going to (try to) buy Wordpress.
Michelle | June 7th, 2007 @ 11:02 am |
Wordpress so flexable. We use it at jbolsen.com for cms. It is amazing software.
Ken | June 7th, 2007 @ 11:35 am |
It’s too bad that CNN uses its blog as another way to try and marginalize Republican candidate Ron Paul. Right after the debate Ticker had a post up asking for feedback. When the response for Paul was overwhelming (and the response for supporters of other candidates near non-existent) CNN redirected the page to a post about a recent Democrat debate.
Matt | June 7th, 2007 @ 11:39 am |
Ken, I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation for that, I wouldn’t assume the worst.
Kyle | June 7th, 2007 @ 12:34 pm |
Holy below-the-fold batman! What is that.. .like 80000px of headers/ads?
Jay Reding | June 7th, 2007 @ 1:01 pm |
WordPress really has made amazing strides in the last few years of development. I switched over when MT changed their license terms, and from 1.5 – 2.2 WordPress has gone from a decent blogging engine to one of the most flexible CMS platforms out there.
Steve Skooz | June 7th, 2007 @ 2:32 pm |
I can’t believ CNN would behave like that?
Is this for real?
Steve
drew olanoff | June 7th, 2007 @ 3:47 pm |
great work, good to see WP out and about on the net in that way
Vikingisson | June 7th, 2007 @ 4:18 pm |
Nice to hear about but not a chance I’ll say nice to see because I won’t see it. CNN is *not* the news and neither are most any other mainstream so called news organizations. Nothing against their presumed bias, I don’t care about that and doubt anyone that claims to be neutral. But CNN has sucked rocks longer than Microsoft and anytime I accidently flip by their channel(s) I’m reminded why I hate them so much.
Metta | June 7th, 2007 @ 5:46 pm |
Before everyone goes conspiracy-berserk, you might want to read what CNN had to say about it themselves.
Not that a reasonable explanation ever put a stop to a good conspiracy theory, of course.
melovillareal | June 7th, 2007 @ 7:00 pm |
I hope CNN can remain non partisan… media should not promote or endorse any political figure or party…
Ken | June 7th, 2007 @ 8:34 pm |
Steve and Matt:
Yes, it is astonish, but CNN’s bias against Paul and other “minor” candidates is very real. The way Wolf Blitzer moderated the debate was unfair, especially when CNN claims to be a non-biased media source.*
http://www.chrisdodd.com/node/1382 | http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/?p=234
*yes, I know, the other cable news channels have problems too, but that isn’t pertinent to this discussion
ceejayoz | June 9th, 2007 @ 12:36 pm |
“When the response for Paul was overwhelming (and the response for supporters of other candidates near non-existent) CNN redirected the page to a post about a recent Democrat debate.”
So, when a bunch of people spammed one of their pages, they didn’t like it? Fancy that…
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