This came up in a discussion I was in the other day too, about whether blog software is a de facto content management system. My argument here would be, if it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck, quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.
So, like there were lots of people who turned up their nose at HTML back in the early days, because it was such a thin and pale imitation of SGML, a REAL markup language, after all. So why did HTML in effect trump SGML? Could it be because its ease of use enabled far greater widespread distributed or democratized uses than the more powerful and full-featured SGML? For that matter, why would anyone use a PC, a weak, desktop machine, when mainframes are so much more powerful, and do so many more things. Could it be because the ease of use enabled far greater widespread distributed or democratized uses than the more powerful and full featured mainframes and "microcomputers"? Chris On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Elin Sjursen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wouldn't think of typepad as a cms anymore than I would blogger:) > But that said, there is another really neat "typepad" like publishing > system out there - squarespace.com. It is really easy to use and very > customizable – it even contains an analytics system. They've just > launched a new version. Have a look, > Elin > > On 7/25/2008, "Christine Boese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Thanks, Elena. I'm also feeling that Typepad is getting dated, >>however, and I chart that directly to the disaster that was the >>Movable 3.0 launch, which was when the entire Movable community >>started migrating en masse to WordPress and Drupal. That didn't hurt >>Typepad, but it took most the strongest design energy away from the >>Movable/Typepad platform, as if a center of gravity shifted. >> >>I had an advantage, being a Typepad beta tester, of having 20% off the >>monthly Pro fee for life, and for years after, any guest I invite also >>gets my discount grandfathered in (don't know if that still works, but >>it means $11.95 a month, unlimited blogs, unlimited something else, >>space, I think). I wouldn't get anything but the pro account. >> >>But then I'm looking to spend at least $6.95 a month now, for >>WordPress hosting, so I figure, six of one... l just suck it up and >>support my habit. >> >>Chris >> >>On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Elena Melendy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Christine Boese wrote: >>>> >>>> Nobody is speaking up in defense of Typepad.... >>>> Here we are, >>>> interaction designers, and nobody is talking about the subtle >>>> colorations the blog input interface brings to the kinds of things one >>>> writes about, and how writers FEEL about the interface. >>>> >>>> If you want the best control over your CSS, you can't beat Typepad. >>>> Custom CSS is brilliant, even if I've only needed it for teaching. >>>> That's just cuz I was too lazy to move out of my Advanced Templates, >>>> but if I had to start from scratch now, I'd be in nothing but the >>>> Custom CSS stuff >>> >>> Chris, I'm bowled over by your passionate defense of Typepad! To be fair, >>> though, I think it hasn't been raised as a possibility because in my >>> original post, I specified that I was looking for a free CMS. To get control >>> over CSS and advanced templates in Typepad, I'd have to pay $15/mo. >>> >>> I'm not making any kind of statement about the business model--just about my >>> current budget. >>> >>> I'm definitely interested in the kind of discussion about interface you're >>> describing. It seems to me that one of the reasons Typepad can charge $5/mo >>> for the basic, single-blog, non-customizable feature set is because of the >>> high quality of its UI. When I said that Drupal's interface was "easy to >>> use," I meant that it has very sensible architecture. The UI is nothing to >>> speak of, though. >>> >>________________________________________________________________ >>Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >>To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >>List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >>List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
