Wordpress goes mobile but misses the poi...

Wordpress goes mobile but misses the point.Mashable! today reports that Wordpress has launched two new mobile themes. But "mobile" here refers to iPhones and Android handsets not to the mobile market that we, in Africa, are referring to.I'm interested to know how many 3rd world (low broadband) countries have Wordpress blogs. What is the number? Is it ten thousand, fifty thousand, more or less?The reason I ask is because I have a feeling that if Wordpress was to start focusing on lower-end handset models in the mobile market they would open themselves up to a massively neglected market. The market that can't afford "smartphones", the market that can't afford laptops, computers and fixed-line internet.It's interesting to think that in 1st world countries the term "mobile" refers to iPhone handsets or "smartphones". What of the rest of the world? What of the people who don't have these phones and can't view the content they are looking for because it costs too much.Meeting with Marc Smith this month was an eye-opener for many reasons. Firstly he told me that Obama winning a Nobel peace prize was not regarded in very high esteem by Americans. Why? Because if Europeans like their president there must be something wrong him. This seems to echo in the approach of many a large company playing in the online/mobile space.Why is Wordpress not going after the African market? Why are they not providing those without fixed-line broadband an outlet for their mobile phones to read and write blogs?To me it feels like a lack of insight and foresight.

Shocking: Regator rip off Afrigator... or did they?

UPDATE:

In typical SA blogosphere style yesterday we all (myself included) jumped to the defence of Afrigator and condemnation of Regator.com.I am pleased to say that the issue has been resolved and we all look a bit silly. I am more than happy to openly acknowledge when I make an err in my ways and this was such a moment. The post below is what I wrote yesterday and how it may seem as though Regator ripped off Afrigator, Scott - one of the Regator co-founders - ensures the Afrigator guys and myself that this entire situation is merely a coincidence.What I think we should be focussing on is how the "holy trinity" hahahahaha of the techblogs, Mashable, RRW and TechCrunch quickly picked up on Regator but only RRW picked up on Afrigator.For now, like Mike and Justin have done, I wish Regator the best of luck!And dip my head for a brief moment to show that I have learned my lesson and wont be jumping on bandwagons any longer (I hope). My closing words: Stii, you got it spot on yet again.I feel compelled to add my voice (or this blog's words) the struggle.Regator.com just opened a beta of their new site. TechCrunch covered it as did ReadWriteWeb and Mashable.First issue I have with this is that I know that TechCrunch fobbed off the Afrigator guys when they asked for some exposure. Secondly TechCrunch should've done their homework and thirdly ReadWriteWeb did cover Afrigator and should be more aware of their content.Justin and Mike both speak out against this and I think it's important that we all try and add our voices to this sort of rubbish.People need to innovate. We all take a little from here, a bit from there but we never duplicate and publicise accordingly. Shocker.

Screeshot of the Jimmy Wales "Socialpedia"

I seem to be the only person who managed to snap a photo of Jimmy Wales' new project. So I thought I should post it here for people to see.Matt has a great couple of posts that were picked up by Mashable! Good on you Matt!