About Blogging.
Friday, February 7, 2003When to switch blogging tools?.
I've been reading about a few bloggers moving off of manila or Radio. Here's the basic formula for when to switch.
When you add up the:
- Current value of my blogging tool
- Expected value of the stream of improvements to my blogging tool
- Cost of switching
And find it is less than the:
- Current value of an alternative tool
- Expected value of the stream of improvements to the alternative tool
Then it will be time to move.
Every product manager faces this formula.
Dave Winer leaving UserLand is a blow to the future value of the product. His radar for novel technologies and software architectures kept exciting new features coming every month for years.
One of John Robb's challenges: making and keeping the promise of an exciting and valuable future for the product family.
[a klog apart]
John Robb can start by calling Erin Clerico at Weblogger about his new suite of tools... run John...My take is that a lot of open source cms look pretty lame and look like knock offs of one another... but I have a suspicion that new open source cms tools will be built to die for.. in by late this year.. So Userland better stay light on its feet! I luv Manila.
