Use the word “sucks” in a headline and it seems you’ll be more likely to get on Memeorandum. Dang. It’s weird. I think that my post on attention that I wrote the other night is far more important for the industry to read and think about than any of the posts I wrote that use the word “sucks” in the headline. But that didn’t make it to Memeorandum cause it didn’t capture the attention of enough bloggers. 😉

But, it does get to what I told the audience yesterday: write great headlines. Why? We’re getting thrown so much information that we skim headlines. Plus, many of us are doing headline searches. Still others are visiting sites like Delicious. All of which make writing good headlines more important.

Update: now the attention article is on Memeorandum too. Great, I have three articles on Memeorandum. Will someone link to someone else, please? Of course, this just shows that when I write something new instead of linking to the same stuff everyone else is that it gets more attention.

TDavid notices that my blog sometimes redirects to WordPress.com. Yes, I notice that too.

WordPress.com is in beta. It is a new service. It’s run by 21-year-old Matt Mullenweg and a band of others. I’m sure it’s going to have some rough patches. I note that Six Apart is going through a rough patch of its own and it is older and better funded than WordPress.

Yes, I’m a guinea pig. Lots of people want to know why I don’t go on my own server and do all that. My coworkers at Microsoft are even offering to give me server rack space and help me do a super dooper blog.

The thing is, I know that 99% of people who blog will do so on hosted services. Most people will not see the value in setting up their own server, or co-locating it. In fact, most businesses won’t do that. Look at the popularity of TypePad.

But, I am learning there are severe disadvantages to going with a hosted solution. It’ll be interesting to see if WordPress and TypePad overcome these disadvantages. If they do they’ll see robust businesses build up around them. If not, there’ll be companies like Blogmatrix, What Counts, or Telligent who’ll be happy to jump in and get you setup with your own blog server.

It’s fun to watch Web designers play with different interfaces to try to make things easier to use. Atiki just came out with a tag-based interface. Here’s a look at their tech news. It won’t displace Memeorandum, but I’m certainly intrigued!