{"id":6092,"date":"2004-05-19T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/19\/in-the-place-wh\/"},"modified":"2004-05-19T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T13:01:10","slug":"in-the-place-wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/19\/in-the-place-wh\/","title":{"rendered":"In the place where you are"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 4<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

When Six Apart<\/a> released MT3.0 (Beta-Developer)<\/a> and a new pricing structure
\nearly last week, I started out with an uneasy feeling. Lots of froth and
\nfray bubbled out from the announcement; some among the MT faithful<\/i> cried
\nout Betrayal!, some swiftly dumped MT…hooks to beefmeat. <\/p>\n

Parts of what Clay Shirky wrote at Many2Many
\nyesterday<\/a> got me thinking about content management systems as social
\norganizers, more
\nspecifically weblogging systems, as a kind of cybersocial fabric, a
\n"community enabler" as he puts it.  He argues that social
\nsoftware built on a free now, pay later upgrade scale dupes the community by imparting a class system
\nand, basically, the branches or divergences in the system are inimical to
\nthe sense of community shared among users.  It makes sense that
\n"changes to the [social software] tool trigger anxiety." Many anxious
\nvariations have turned up in these six days (apart) from the announcement. FWIW, I
\nhave a less easy<\/i> time making sense of the move to separate the rational
\nusers and emotional hooks. And I grant that I have, in the use of a handful of
\nMT plugins, benefited from the fruits of an MT developer community that might
\nshift, fade, vanish in the months ahead (toward other platforms or more recent
\nversions).<\/p>\n

The comments following Shirky’s post are worth a read, too.  Perhaps
\nit’s because I’ve never fully realized membership in a community of MT users
\nthat I don’t see my laggard attachment to the older, freer version of MT as a
\nsocial rip-departure from the upscale 3.0 users.  I’ll be able to read
\ntheir blogs; they’ll be able to read mine.  Presumably, I will be able to
\nleave them trackbacks; they will be able to link to me.  In fairness, I
\nreally don’t want to use Shirky’s post daftly. However, as a blogger, I never
\nsaw myself as a member of an MT community more than, say, a member of a blogging
\ncommunity among people I admire and read regularly (mostly) in my field(s) of
\ninterest.  The self-defined blogroll trumps the CMS community, I think, and
\nit’s much more directed, much more real to me, having a greater effect by far on
\nhow I conceive of blogging as purposeful.  These are the people whose weblogs I keep up with.  So, Shirky’s entry set me to thinking about a few
\nother issues that have stirred in these six days–other material I want
\nto dig my 2.65 anchor (temporarily, perhaps) against. <\/p>\n

First, my blogroll, which has remained relatively stable lately, includes a
\narray of platforms: <\/p>\n

Mister BS<\/a> – Blog-city; Clancy Ratliff<\/a> and Charlie Lowe<\/a> – Drupal; Dennis
\nJerz<\/a> – WordPress<\/strike> JWeblog; Will Richardson<\/a> – Manila; Dr.
\nB<\/a> – Blogger; Ken Smith<\/a> – pMachine;
\nMarie Freeman<\/a> – TypePad; John
\nLovas<\/a> – Manila; Rich Rice<\/a> –
\nWho knows?; Amy
\nPropen<\/a> – Blog*Spot; Jeff
\nRice<\/a> – Greymatter<\/p>\n

These are most of the non-MT bloggers I keep up with (although aggregation
\nisn’t possible with a few of them, so I visit less frequently, attributable to
\nbusiness, absentmindedness).  Without
\ngushing burning bloglove, their regular entries, getting to know people by their work,
\ntheir ideas, their weblogs–that’s the sense of community membership I identify
\nwith.  And…important and<\/i>, here…I appreciate that they work
\nfrom different platforms<\/i>.  I’d feel uneasy if all<\/i> of them used Movable Type
\nor Drupal or WordPress.
\nChanges to platforms (upon which or through which our conversations unfold, our
\nconnections manifest) are less significant to me socially than their persistence
\nas available, present, and connected bloggers.  In other words, it would
\nmatter less if John Lovas, for example, switched to Blogger or Manila than
\nif he gave up blogging altogether–literally checking out of the
\n"membership in a community."  <\/p>\n

Second, software choices present ideological window dressing, perhaps
\nmore, perhaps less.  Hanna from join-the-dots makes
\nthis point squarely in her announcement<\/a> of the switch from MT to WordPress. 
\nFor folks committed to GNU
\nGPU<\/a> licensing, true open source, as I understand it, the point is
\ncrucial.  Honestly, I’m not sufficiently well versed in property law to
\ngive a responsible run-down of the differences between CC, GNU GPU (which
\napplies to software source more than IP?) and all the gradations. Suffice it to
\nsay that I’ve always struggled to live out ideological fancies with lasting
\nvigor–I have worn Nikes, munched on KFC, even thrown away perfectly recyclable
\nmaterials in the trash.  So, without preferring to be an ethical slob or a
\nhypocrite, I’ll continue with MT 2.65, no matter how that reflects an
\nideological layer.  I on-ramped to blogging with a recommendation to use
\nMT.  It was free.  I’m content with it.  I don’t have time to
\ntinker with Drupal or WordPress.  MT will continue to meet my needs for
\nwriting here and teaching and so on.  Bunker the social and ideological
\ngales along the way.<\/p>\n

Third, I haven’t observed any features in other blogging systems that vastly
\nexpand the potential of EWM to do<\/i> what I mean for it to do<\/i>. Maybe my mood would
\nchange if I got hit with 1000 spam comments, but that hasn’t happened yet.  Drupal is the only system whose look, feel and usability appeal to me–for
\nthe wiki functions than the threaded comment functions. On that note, Drupal<\/a>
\nand WordPress<\/a> users have
\nbeen out in full glory, converting the MT-disgruntled, inviting the dejected
\ninto the warm and gregarious open source alternatives.  Distracting us from
\nsmashed idols and empty dreams.  Please forgive the evangelical language.
\nI’m just having a bit of fun.<\/p>\n

This is less of a defense of sticking with an earlier version of MT or riding
\nout the ripples of Six Apart’s mustard-on-the-shirt announcement last week than
\nit is an attempt to make sense (for me or for you) of why I’m doing what I’m
\ndoing.  Maybe, in the next six months, the competing platforms will feature
\ncollaborative entry authoring (co-authorship or tri-authorship
\nfunctionality…for comments, too) and other stuff, such as [insert wishlist
\nhere].  In the meantime, I’m going to idle, wait it out and blog
\ncontentedly in this MT space, crossing my fingers that my delicate sense of
\ncommunity won’t be obliterated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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