My Take on WordPress Social (Blurt)

There is a new short-form blogging theme for WordPress.com called Blurt. I have a few opinions about this, so I figured I’d chime in. This is one of the hopefully many things we’ll see come out of Radical Speed Month at Automattic, which only started a week ago. For those of you not following Automattic too closely, it’s essentially a month-long hackathon where pairs of Automatticians get to ship something with no oversight. “No design reviews, no product sign-off, no marketing sign-off.” This project seems to be the output of Joseph Scott and Dave Martin. When I saw Joseph’s name, I was excited because he’s the maintainer of the WordPress RSS Cloud plugin. It’s Not P2 This theme is interesting to me because I remember a long time ago, there was this really cool WordPress theme called P2, which was basically a microblog theme published in 2009. This became a hosted solution that, although no longer available for signups, is still used for much internal communication at Automattic. At…