As soon as you think of it someone else has made a WordPress plugin out of it
I always enjoy when a decent plugin comes with an equally inspired dose of Open Source anti-copyright agitprop, so this find of the Multiple Authors plugin by MCIncubus made me giddy.
Sitting her working on the RCF.org site, editing a blog entry for the group blog, Three Triscuits and Some Spinach, I was thinking to myself, boy it would be neat if there were some way WordPress could add multiple authors to a post. And then I remembered my own InterWeb Doctrine: “As soon as you think it should exist, it does.” And thus, one google query containing the words multiple authors and plugin led me to this find at boakes dot org. Not only did it lead to the plugin that I thught already should exist, it also included this line from, Boakes who was also thinking the exact same thing I was while I was looking for it:
This, in a nutshell is why open source software works. You don’t necessarily need to be able to code to make the system better, you just have to have the ideas and the community can pick them up, run with them, and often release code enhancements within 24 hours. Compare this to the slow world of single-vendor software where upgrades come around once per year if you’re lucky, and then you have to pay for them.
This is thinking aloud, and having your thoughts made reality, instantly.
Preach it from the mount, brother.
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption of high places will follow. The money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed. I feel more anxiety at this moment for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war.”
