Comments on: Promoting & Upgrading the TLF

By: sib

sib — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:06:18 +0000

You might want to think about following some people on Twitter. It's not very conversational to collect followers but not to follow anyone in return…

By: sib

sib — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:06:18 +0000

You might want to think about following some people on Twitter. It's not very conversational to collect followers but not to follow anyone in return…

By: sib

sib — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:06:18 +0000

You might want to think about following some people on Twitter. It's not very conversational to collect followers but not to follow anyone in return…

By: dm

dm — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:32:53 +0000

Another curmudgeonly comment about Scribd: when I asked to save the document, I was prompted for a login. I'd prefer not to have to do that in order to view the document with a document reader that I prefer.

By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:39:43 +0000

One thing you could do to increase your readership and enhance your credibility would be to add a link to Broadband Politics to your site. All the cool people read it.

By: rybolov

rybolov — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:13:18 +0000

Hey guys, your twitter stream gives me the same value as your RSS feed. I'll follow you on twitter when you do something different on it that I can't get out of a feed reader. =)

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:18:03 +0000

I'm curious about what you don't like about Movable Type. Would you mind posting a comment here about what you don't like about it versus WordPress?

If it's related to performance or spam in particular, I can tell how to quickly get rid of those gripes with the new features

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:59:43 +0000

Well, a good example would be you can set up ActionStreams to track what you are reading/sharing on Digg, Google Reader, Slashdot and sites like that. There's some documentation that is helpful for getting started with that. You could create an Atom feed of your latest actions on news sites of interest to your readers.

Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. We use MovableType on the PFF blog and... well, let's just say that I don't have anything nice to say about it.

I feel much the same way about WordPress. I stopped using it after I read about the attitude problem displayed toward the developer behind Spam Karma when he reported some security holes to the WordPress developers and I had a chance to write a plugin for WordPress. Those two factors turned me off to it as a platform. Every time I see WordPress get forked to accommodate features that Movable Type handles gracefully, like multiple blogs or use as a forum, I feel more vindicated that WordPress is nowhere near as technically sound as its proponents suggest.

And on that note, I'll just say that the WordPress developers had better hope that hosts don't start preferring PostgreSQL to MySQL because WordPress is so wedded to MySQL that a shift that simple would cripple it.

By: Berin Szoka

Berin Szoka — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:24:59 +0000

That's a great suggestion, Peter! We'll look into this.

By: Peter Twieg

Peter Twieg — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:14:49 +0000

Actually, one thing which I found myself wanting the other day is that it'd be nice if the events that were plugged here were added to a Google calendar (or some other form of calendar) that could easily be added to one's own event planner. I'm hoping that this feature becomes increasingly ubiquitous over time.

By: Berin Szoka

Berin Szoka — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:40:55 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. We use MovableType on the PFF blog and... well, let's just say that I don't have anything nice to say about it. Interestingly, it seems that ActionStreams is a MT knock-off of the WP plug-in Lifestream: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/154694

I can see the appeal of such plug-ins for a personal blog. But has anyone seen such a thing implemented in a group blog? Mike, if you can point to any specific examples, that would be very helpful.

I have explored plug-ins that would allow us to set up a stream of TLF tweets on the site, such as Twitter Feed but I'm not sold yet - http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:59:01 +0000

Kinda ironic that you guys switched to WordPress right around the time that Movable Type started getting some serious performance upgrades and cool new features like Action Streams (which would allow you to share what you're reading and commenting on with your readers).

By: Andrew W

Andrew W — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:17:06 +0000

I can vouch for Scribd for another good reason: it processes metadata well so that a doc is more easily searchable than a PDF alone.