You know you’re truly geekified when you jump off a perfectly comfortably chair, all reckless abandon and wild eyes, at the sniff of a WordPress scoop.

I blame – in the nicest sense possible – the lovely Jane Wells for starting it. In her blog she told us that she and Matt had spent a short time creating a website for the WordPress Foundation.

It looks a laudable effort to take WordPress to an even greater audience through outreach projects designed to get more folks blogging.

Or as Matt Mullenweg himself would have it:

to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.

Details, conceded Jane, are scant. And a cursory scan over the WordPress Foundation site provides little more information than what’s already been said.

Creating the Foundation as an official non-profit organisation is the right start. As they say, it’s all about creating a stable [and free] platform for web publishing for generations to come.

With all the banter and feud over GPL I wonder how many developers will rally to this apparently innocuous cause? I, for one, with a modicum of skill in the coding department, would be happy to contribute in any way to making blogging a part of the school curriculum, for example.

I found a letter I wrote to a pen pal about 20 years ago. It reminded me in a sugary way how cool it was to wait for the postie to deliver news from a friend you’d never met, but connected to via ink and paper.

Imagine how distant a reality that is, today. The idea of spending an hour or two composing a message to be read by an audience, even if that audience numbers just one.

With texts, Facebook and Twitter, kids don’t have the wherewithall or resolve to chatter through dozens of paragraphs of insight into the comings and goings of life. One thing pen-palling instituted in me was a fondness for the welfare of others. You don’t get that from an impersonal, acutely concise electronic message.

So blogging, for me, should be as letter-writing was for the boot-strapped kids of the 80s. Given precedence in academic environments. Inspiring people to create new worlds through words rather than pixels.

And did I mention the WordPress Foundation website is built on the 3.0 platform?

So I mentioned three, twice. That makes six. I’ll have four reasons to say ‘A-HA!’ later to reach my tally of 10 for the day… If you don’t get it, read the sticky post a the top of my home page!