They pulled out of the free-n'-easy market three years ago with MT 3.0 - and caused pandemic dissent across the blogosphere. A lot of the more vocal dissenters moved to (at the time) B2, or the very basic incarnations of Word Press.
I remember talking to Anil Dash (one of 6A's first developers) at the time and he said that it was a small number of very vocal people who were upset - but now, if you look at 80-90% of the blogs out there - most of them say "Powered by Word Press"
It is no coincidence that pricing structures for blog software JUST DON'T WORK. You're dealing with a different kind of community than hard copy software buyers - these are developers, nerds, et al - and we like it easy to modify and easy to get and with a large community since this IS our community base.
All they're doing now is back tracking. Like hell I'm moving back to Movable Type. MT can rot in hell.
By the way - was this made clear enough that this really isn't an innovation?
I had this at my dorm through PurDigital (Biltmore Communications) a year ago in Atlanta.
Way to go - a corporate behemoth taking years to catch up to a more innovative and agile competitive company, and then calling it something new and fantastic.
Way to disenfranchise companies that may have a slight modicum of interest in the consumer.
Biltmore also owned and operated the city's only publicly available WiFi, and operated at a loss so that GSU Faculty and Staff could take advantage of it. Their contract with the city screwed them...like most municipal policies of Atlanta.
Anyway - I just wish someone would come out with something worth being./-ed.
For once, please.
No, you're entirely right - it's all about choice, but the way this article is depicting women it reinforces the lack of choice that women have. It's setting them into the mentality that their *only* option is to go home and care for the family, and that's why they have to give up their career.
I'm with you - if you want to take care of your family at home, then more power to you, but let people truly have a choice.
It really frightens me that the tone of the article depicts all IT related women as doting career moms who are only waiting for an easy out to go home and take care of Father Jr.
This backslide into 1950s pre-feminist movement status scares me. Why can't the IT dad have to worry about day-care and being on call 24 hours a day because he has to take care of his children too?
Why have we set up yet another situation for detached parenting that falls prey to the same social normality that we've been trying to eradicate for decades to pave the way for something far more beneficial - a well rounded parental structure that depicts both parties as nurturing.
I'm male, and I'm all for women's rights and the advancement of the sex and gender - and this article seems to paint a very different picture - one that I'm not sure most professional, career-driven IT women would agree with.
What scares me is that no one else in this discussion has really grazed this aspect of the topic.
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hasn't about.com been doing this for years and years and years?
They pulled out of the free-n'-easy market three years ago with MT 3.0 - and caused pandemic dissent across the blogosphere. A lot of the more vocal dissenters moved to (at the time) B2, or the very basic incarnations of Word Press. I remember talking to Anil Dash (one of 6A's first developers) at the time and he said that it was a small number of very vocal people who were upset - but now, if you look at 80-90% of the blogs out there - most of them say "Powered by Word Press" It is no coincidence that pricing structures for blog software JUST DON'T WORK. You're dealing with a different kind of community than hard copy software buyers - these are developers, nerds, et al - and we like it easy to modify and easy to get and with a large community since this IS our community base. All they're doing now is back tracking. Like hell I'm moving back to Movable Type. MT can rot in hell.
Made by nanotube-excreting bacteria! We solved our problem by creating a new one! ...yeah! go us.
Bellsouth was recently acquired by AT&T. It's probably where they got their technology - playing the M$ game of innovation.
By the way - was this made clear enough that this really isn't an innovation? I had this at my dorm through PurDigital (Biltmore Communications) a year ago in Atlanta. Way to go - a corporate behemoth taking years to catch up to a more innovative and agile competitive company, and then calling it something new and fantastic. Way to disenfranchise companies that may have a slight modicum of interest in the consumer. Biltmore also owned and operated the city's only publicly available WiFi, and operated at a loss so that GSU Faculty and Staff could take advantage of it. Their contract with the city screwed them...like most municipal policies of Atlanta. Anyway - I just wish someone would come out with something worth being ./-ed.
For once, please.
No, you're entirely right - it's all about choice, but the way this article is depicting women it reinforces the lack of choice that women have. It's setting them into the mentality that their *only* option is to go home and care for the family, and that's why they have to give up their career. I'm with you - if you want to take care of your family at home, then more power to you, but let people truly have a choice.
It really frightens me that the tone of the article depicts all IT related women as doting career moms who are only waiting for an easy out to go home and take care of Father Jr. This backslide into 1950s pre-feminist movement status scares me. Why can't the IT dad have to worry about day-care and being on call 24 hours a day because he has to take care of his children too? Why have we set up yet another situation for detached parenting that falls prey to the same social normality that we've been trying to eradicate for decades to pave the way for something far more beneficial - a well rounded parental structure that depicts both parties as nurturing. I'm male, and I'm all for women's rights and the advancement of the sex and gender - and this article seems to paint a very different picture - one that I'm not sure most professional, career-driven IT women would agree with. What scares me is that no one else in this discussion has really grazed this aspect of the topic.