WordPress made… Micro.blog? From their new ‘social’ blog theme announcement:

Here’s what makes this different from a social app: every quick thought and every reblog is a real WordPress.com post on a site you own, and every reply is saved as a comment. You get the speed and feel of a social feed, with the permanence and portability of a blog. Export it, back it up, migrate it to another host. It’s yours.

@jarrod @manton “You kind of get a sense when the platform vendor is going to compete with you instead of work with you.” — Dave Winer’s observation on the WordPress ‘social’ theme. I hope that’s not so.