How Do You MU?

James, who runs edublogs.org, and hence hosts this and well over a thousand other blogs, recently posted thoughts on running edublogs. I was very pleased to see this. I’d be very interested to see similar posts from the folks running other WPMU hosts.

James’ post covers three aspects of hosting edublogs. 

• Purpose. “I want edublogs.org to provide free, high quality blogs for educational professionals.” Now that’s what I call a clear mission statement.
• Technical. James would like to do more in terms of community-building, but there are limits, some time-related, some technical, to what he can currently do. I get the impression that WPMU is handling the large number of blogs pretty well.
• Sustainability. The large number of blogs impacts bandwidth, which in turn impacts bank balance. Starting to charge for edublogs would go against the very purpose of edublogs (see above quote).

Matt commented that he’s interested in putting edublogs on the WordPress.com architecture, and that this would help with some of the technical issues. I’m not sure whether this is an offer to fund the bandwidth, and thus help with the sustainability of edublogs.

Again, many thanks to James, not just for the hosting, but also for this very interesting recent posting. 

This entry was posted on October 21, 2005 at 9:04 pm and is filed under EduBlogs.