Read the article, and check out the other great content lately on CMSWire. Recently, I particularly enjoyed the the interview with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert.

Back in November, I had an email discussion with CMSWire Publisher & Chief Editor Brice Dunwoodie where I accused CMSWire having a bias against WordPress including pointing out specific examples. His response reassured me:

We’re small and growing and always looking to improve quality. Time is always tight and we don’t always make the best decisions. But we do care about doing the right thing and with constructive feedback we are sure to move in the right direction.

The quality since then has greatly improved. So if you do have any WordPress or other CMS related news story tips, I recommend sharing it with them.

Anyway, back to “Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100″.

Although, I agree with people that these lists get too much attention (and have their own problems), these tools are one valid dimension of popularity. WordPress being so well presented is great promotion! Who doesn’t choose the products that their friends and colleagues use.

I would be interested to know how many of the blogs on platforms other than WordPress predate a stable version of WordPress?

How does the Technorati 1000 look? The 10000? What about other top lists of bloggers?

I’m always engaging non-WordPressers about what we can do to make it worth while for them to migrate to WordPress. If you aren’t using WordPress what do we have to do to make WordPress the right tool for you?

Scoble broke the law by sharing our personal data with Plaxo.

Was that really so hard?

Now, I don’t know if that accusation true, but that I think is the accusation they are trying to make. If Dennis and Thomas do want to argue that then it should be a foundation of legal precedence — how plain Dennis finds the English isn’t how any of the legal work as far as I’m aware, nor does it respect the complexity of electronic data storage.

Still, I don’t find that is interesting as to whether Scoble broke our trust, which I hoped to challenge in my original article . It seems far fewer would argue that he had broke our trust if he had used a tool that didn’t provide the data to another service, in this case Plaxo.

In the process, I’ve demonstrated why a conversational approach isn’t appropriate for an accusation of legality

For the people that suggest that Facebook‘s Terms of Service describe either the legal or social contract, get your heads out of the sand! Terms of Services are clubs wielded by poor designs or when polite requests fail. The experience of your service is your tool for describing the contract.

I’m really excited to see what comes from the work of the wonderful people participating in DataPortability — the group includes a lot of people I greatly admire: Robert Scoble, Brad Fitzpatrick, Scott Kveton, Marc Canter, Dries Buytaert, Kristopher Tate, Blaine Cook, Chris Messina, and so many other appropriately experienced people considering these challenges.