Wednesday, February 05, 2003

Oreilly.net. Andy Oram in Oreilly.net: Media is Ripe for a Convergence of a Different Sort. Good thoughts here. [JD's New Media Musings] 12:56:44 PM    Trackback []

Jeremy Zawodny reviews AmphetaDesk for Linux Magazine: "Unlike many of the 'headline grabbing' tools you'll find by searching Freshmeat, and contrary to it's description, AmphetaDesk is a server process (written in Perl) that you interact with using your favorite Web browser." [Workbench] 10:13:47 AM    Trackback []

Microsoft Watch has compiled a list of present and past Microsoft employees who publish weblogs. Because I think it's inevitable that Microsoft will offer weblog publishing software, I was curious to see what these publishers use. There are a bunch of Radio weblogs -- At the Core, Better Living Through Software, DouglasP, InkBlog, Peter Drayton, SimpleGeek, and Y.B. Normal -- several using Ingo Rammer's .NET-based OutBlog, a few Moveable Type blogs, and one Manila site. [Workbench] 10:10:52 AM    Trackback []

Weblogs vs. Websites. My good friend Erik Heels went live with his Radio-powered site last week. Part of this is an experiment to see whether weblogs deliver greater ROI than a traditional website (his "traditional" site is a database-powered website that is at heels.com). Keep an eye on this. Erik's analysis is always detailed and his conclusions often surprising. [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog] 9:28:00 AM    Trackback []

When 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] 9:23:31 AM    Trackback []