Amazing information architect and interaction designer, Donna Maurer, dumped Movable Type after 5 year relationship for WordPress.
Category Archives: Open Source
Overwhelm their Fears with Open Source
February 1, 2008 – 9:55 am
When in conversations with people championing freedom causes using Google Blogger or Six Apart TypePad, I share that myself and many people find it upsetting that they do so using proprietary software.
The inconvenience and their frustrations with software usually leaves them too afraid to even consider switching to another publishing platform.
It is ok that it [...]
CMSWire: WordPress dominates the Technorati’s Top 100
January 23, 2008 – 6:40 pm
John Conroy of CMSWire wrote “Results: Most Popular CMS in Technorati’s Top 100” which finds “WordPress dominates the list” and “[WordPress is used on] a whopping 34 percent of the 100 blogs on Technorati’s Top 100″.
Movable Type 200% Open Source!
January 18, 2008 – 12:26 pm
Where 100% and fully are not quite the definitions I’m used to.
Yes, Movable Type Open Source should be celebrated! It is awesome that it already includes everything that was released as Movable Type 4.0 and more. As I understand it there should soon be a stable release. But I am confused by the conversations I [...]
WordPress Hands Free Upgrade?
January 7, 2008 – 3:09 pm
This comment by Matt is too good to leave obscure in a WordPress bug report:
Fundamentally, I think the reason [automatic upgrade] should be core is that WordPress being used as, and has the responsibilities of, a platform. Therefore it’s useful to look at the evolution of a few of the other most successful platforms out [...]
When Knowledge Disappears
December 20, 2007 – 10:01 pm
The other day, I went to reread an amazing article Eli Goldberg wrote on “Verifying a bug” written when we were both working at Flock. I was saddened to find that http://wiki.flock.com/ has been replaced by a sparse “Flock developer website” and I couldn’t find that article.
Dealing with the High Cost of Ubuntu
December 11, 2007 – 2:02 pm
Yesterday, I did an install of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on the Dell Dimension E520. The install went well; I haven’t experienced any hardware problems (yet), but I’m near tears for all the (minor) experience issues.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
October 5, 2007 – 3:51 pm
Today, when I tried to <code>aptitude install</code> a package on Ubuntu the response was “WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!”
I received a similar warning when I tried to use Synaptic Package Manager.
I checked and made sure that the software was trying to install from the official repository.
I’m not really sure of the cause, or [...]