This is good news. As many A-list bloggers migrate off of Radio towards MT or TypePad it's heartening to hear that some are moving beyond that. It's important that we keep the 'pressure' up - to get more and better features.
I had to deal with this issue the past few days, as my Radio Userland blogging environment broke down. But then it turned out to be Marc Barrot tinkering with activeRenderer, and.....
Well let's just say I REALLY like using Radio and it's built in aggregator. Too cool to fool with the tool. For now - at least.
MT Loses One.
In A Niche Battle Movable Type Loses One
One of the most interesting market battles in recent years is taking place right here, in the blogosphere.
Which software will bloggers use? For many months now, Movable Type has had all the momentum. Its user interface isn't the best, but it's powerful, it's Linux, it has Joi Ito behind it, it has buzz. I've joined nearly a half-dozen different blogs in the last few months, and each one used MT.
But some of the biggest blogs don't use MT. For "industrial-strength" blogging, there are Kuro5hin's Scoop and Slashdot's Slash. While you might equate the battle between Movable Type and Radio to the 1980s clash between Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel, a better analogy here might be to the battle between various flavors of Unix. (Yes, there is a third level to this market, the consumer hosted-software battle that mainly pits Google's Blogger against Weblogger. Note that MT is the only outfit playing in all three arenas.)
So I found it interesting when Markos Zúniga, better known as DailyKos, switched this week to Scoop. Kos also does some technical work for the Howard Dean campaign, which is very wedded to Movable Type. But he does rhapsodize about Scoop's advanced features -- threaded discussion, instant polling -- features the Deansters will need if they're to scale. The Dean blog is currently suffering because discussions won't scale and there is no way to moderate them.
It will be interesting, from a market point of view, to see what the Deansters do over the next few months. It's always fun when you're covering a political campaign and suddenly a business story breaks out.
Dana Blankenhorn [Corante: Moore's Lore]
Fear focused us on AAA (authentication, authorization and administration.) These are byproducts leftover from the 1st era of the web.
