The Upcoming Weblog Tool Hegemon
Sometimes it's fun to play games with the "blogosphere." That vaporous group of people who think they are more important than they really are, myself included, that like to weigh in on issues with their penetrating intellect. SixApart are smart folks. I can't imagine they didn't know exactly the types of ridiculous arguments that would be made against their as-yet-unreleased TypeKey.
Luckily I was gone for most of the weekend and missed all the shenanigans. Luckily Mr. Pilgrim was nice enough to give a mocking rundown of said shenanigans. Being associated with the "blogosphere" is enough to make you want to stop weblogging.
The blowback against Movable Type and anything SixApart related is quite striking. A real "eat your own" culture has developed in the weblog community around tools. Nobody is allowed to break away from the pack. If you try, they will pull you back in and make sure you never get too far ahead. I'm sure a large part of it is fighting the commercial whoring of weblogs. Guess what...too late. Look around and tell yourself that it hasn't happened. Denial can be a very happy state to be in.
Granted MT powers this site so you could claim bias. My bias, real or imaginary, should only really matter if I was making a coherent argument. Instead I'm just droning on about what a strange and stupid beast this "blogosphere" is. I also tend to use MT in most of my new projects that need some sort of content management ability. I like it. I use it. I buy it.
But as I mentioned, Mr. Pilgrim's run down is quite a hoot to read. You should always remember that the answer is LOAF. It doesn't matter what the question is.
