As you can see from the counter lifted from WordPress.com, the blogging site has passed 1,000,000 blogs today. Congratulations, it’s quite an accomplishment. Now the good folks at WordPress don’t need any acclamation from a piddly little web outpost like mine, but I wanted to mention this anyway.

I use WordPress for this, my personal blog, and as a content management and publishing system for my businesses. I think it’s the rarest of all software products: it does what it claims, it does it well, and it’s simple to use and extend. This is not to say the software is perfect, no software ever is. But it is darned good, one of the best I’ve ever used and I will continue to use and promote it because of its utility and performance. Great job WordPress team, we in your user community appreciate your hard work.

If you want to start a blog, use WordPress.com as a hosted solution or download and install the software for your web server at WordPress.org. You won’t regret it.