What Your Blog Software Says About You

by Brett Kelly on February 3, 2010
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They say you can tell a lot about a person by the shoes they wear. Doyle Brunson, arguably the greatest poker player that’s ever lived, says that showing him your eyes is the same thing as showing him your cards. It’s been said that the best way to get to know somebody is by looking at their garbage.

It’s funny how much the things we do betray the details of who we are. Even things as inane as shoes and the contents of your trash can are dead giveaways for some folks. For others, it’s the blogging software they use.

I’ve been around this blogging game for a good while now and I’ve worked out what I feel are some pretty dead-on theories regarding the folks who own and operate blogs powered by specific pieces of software. At the risk of alienating the couple dozen folks who actually read this blog, I give you my list. And, to keep things extra spicy, it will be written from the point of view of the blogger.

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I know I hinted at updating you guys on this project somewhere in the middle, but I’m thinking it might be somewhat interesting to see how this whole situation progresses on a daily basis. This also coincides with another experiment I’m conducting on this here blog in full view of the handful of folks who read this regularly, but we’ll revisit that after we talk about this iPhone stuff for a minute.

Here’s the home screen near the end of day 2:

As expected, Tweetie and Mail have already returned to their rightful positions in the dock of ubiquity. The other showing that doesn’t surprise me one lick is Google Reader (that’s a Web Clip, not a native application, if you’re wondering), which is a go-to for me when I have a few minutes of down time. I am, however a little surprised by the presence of the remaining apps (not a ton, though):

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