screwed up!


it’s weird how as i feel more introverted i get more creative which makes me extroverted once i have stuff to show and/or play for people. what up with that.
my birthday party on sunday was really quite good. nathan volunteered to host the gathering after i told him about the uncertainty with the weather for julie’s place. the weather turned out great, but i had already sent out my invitation with directions by the time julie had decided to go ahead with her original plans. i would have liked to have gone over to her potluck as originally planned but i did not want to confuse people by sending out different directions twice in one day. i missed those who were not able to make it (too much in one day).. some did make it though, which was great! anyway, nathan doesn’t read this but i’d like to thank him for having me and my friends over. we weren’t too messy, i think. and thanks to julie as well for the potential potluck. hee hee hee.
i realized that i have a lot of friends that have not met eachother. erik was looking forward to meeting julie since we’ve known eachother the same amount of time and they’ve never met. what! and there was a whole crew of my buds from The Old House that didn’t show up for whatever reason i don’t know. i saw those guys on thursday though (at hush when i was DJing with azim) so it’s all good.
ooh, i gotta go!

on the spot

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last night I DJ’d with Azim at Hush. it was a really good night actually. DNA played an opening set, and then I played some pretty fun music during my set. i played dreamcache and i think it has never sounded better than it does now. i think that means it is done. all the levels are right, the percussion is bangin’ and people like it. i like it now too!
it’s mah birthday weekend! if you are waiting for directions from me, i will be sending them tomorrow after i sort out the details with julie. so! stay tuned. 🙂
more to follow when i get home tonight..

moveablegrype

Woah, I thought the forums were gone on moveabletype’s website. They sort of are. Can you find the link? I have not been able to yet.. I know that the forums are there because I am on them right now. For new users, it would not be so simple. Oh, there it is, I found it. That is, honestly, what troubled me the most about all of this.
The community, any way you cut it, has been moved to the back seat of the bus now for Six Apart.
Wondering what I am talking about? Read this:
http://www.sixapart.com/corner/archive/2004/05/its_about_time.shtml
I can’t argue with them on their decision to take the free community support and do something with it. That’s what business is good at and is half the reason we have so many innovative products out there. On the other hand, some companies PAY for R&D, which is what the community has been doing for Six Apart for a good long time. For free.
I can’t argue with their decision to make money on a great product. Hey, they deserve to make a tonne of money off of this software. However, their approach seems a bit wacky.
What this is.. is not an upgrade. It is a rebrand. New logo, new messaging. Moveable Type has shiner packaging and so they think it is worth more [than it was]. Which I agree with. It does look better. Is it worth more? It’s always been worth quite a bit, but they’re charging more for it than an iPod at the highest end. This price point is doom. The limitations are doom. The disappearance of community is doom. Basically this is an optics disaster in one of the most listened to and connected communities on the planet.
I hope their 26 employees are Public Relations wrecking balls and not programmers so that they can break through the walls they’ve put up for themselves.
By the way, if I was to continue running and upgrading moveabletype, the cost would be $206 CAD with no functional benefits. Yeah right.
Yeah. So what else is there for people to use? You can still use Moveable Type for free if you want. Once you register with them, you can download good old 2.661. Probably for a limited time. The new one is free but they don’t offer any support for it. And like I said, the forums .. well, I don’t even know if you can find them any more unless you already happen to know where they are. Weak sauce, weak sauce.
So anyways, we still got something out of the whole deal. But emotionally I consider the deal to be over. I may be interested in them from a business angle, but Moveable Type doesn’t do everything that I would need CMS to do, so that’s unlikely. In that regard, Moveable Type is competitively priced, but functionally falls short of other solutions.