Ponderings From The Perch

So, you think you’re pretty tough, do you? Well lemme introduce you to a couple toughies who eat fear for breakfast. Their names: Priscilla McKinney and Andy Crestodina. I heard they’re so accustomed to living on the edge that they don’t even flinch at…using Wordpress for a web host. Pretty hardcore, yeah? In this episode, Momma Bird Priscilla McKinney enlists the cognitive muscle and steely reserve of Orbit Media Co-Founder and CMO Andy Crestodina, to analyze an article arguing that Wordpress is “A Risky Choice” for web hosting. The daredevil duo offers a series of sound counterpoints to the article, while acknowledging a few of its valid points. In addition to rebuffing the content of the specific blog itself, the conversation also touches on a type of blog-writing that Priscilla and Andy feel is less than helpful. Priscilla says, “I feel very committed to the integrity of our industry, and when I see something like this that’s just written out there that really in the end looks like clickbait to me, it’s a