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May 20, 2004
Stupid People
I know this has been posted everywhere already, but it's hilarious.
People type Maury Povich into Google, latch on to first site they see!
Posted by Laura at 03:56 PM
May 19, 2004
How I'm using MT
Mena wants to know how we're using MovableType since there was so much backlash last week. My MT install contains 5 blogs with 1 author, but those 5 blogs serve three websites. In my mind, I'm within the boundaries of the free license because I have three sites. If I have to count each blog instance, then I need to move up to the $69 license. At this time I wouldn't buy a license because upgrading holds little appeal and no one even reads my crappy blogs.
Partially due to the licensing debacle and partially because I couldn't find a good domain name, I decided to try out TypePad for a new gardening blog. I like it so far, but I think I'll balk when the fees start rolling in. If I weren't paying for web hosting already it wouldn't be an issue at all.
Posted by Laura at 04:30 PM
May 13, 2004
Movable Bandwagon
Yes, I'm preparing to gripe about the new MovableType 3.0 release and Six Apart's blatant money-grab.
I think the main points have already been covered: the free version limits you to 1 author/3 weblogs, large blogging environments will be forced to pay $699 for the big license, etc. Here's what hasn't been said, that's bothering me:
1. They admit this is not a feature release and that they want developers to come up with new extensions. So, for the privilege of doing 6A's job for them, developers get to shell out a few hundred bucks. That makes no sense to me at all. If you want the community to contribute, you have to make it freely available - i.e., open source.
2. The new styles suck...hard. They are all the same except for color. Even Blogger has better layouts. Again, they want us to do all the work, and pay for the privilege.
3. There has been quite a movement within the community to use MT as a total site management tool. Many such schemes involve creating additional blogs within MT to segregate the content. However, by limiting the number of blogs in each license, and pricing the licenses prohibitively, Ben and Mena are basically saying that they don't want their software to be used this way.
I have more than 5 blogs in MT right now, even though I only use one as an actual blog. Thus, I have to pay over 100 bucks to upgrade. All this for a few personal sites that get no visitors and make no money at all. Hell, if they did make money I'd have to pay 299 for a commercial license. So much for micropayments.
4. I wonder if this is an attempt to get small time bloggers to use TypePad instead, thereby producing a steady income for 6A.
5. I used to be on the MT users mailing list. The last note I received from them was the alpha release announcement. I wouldn't have even known about the new release if it weren't such big news everywhere today. Why did they stop using the mailing list?
That is all.
Posted by Laura at 10:49 AM