links for 2011-02-11
by Martin Belam, 11 February 2011
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A criticism of 10 O'Clock Live that for once doesn't boil down to "oh, it wasn't as clever/funny/satirical as the mythical much better show that exists in my head"
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In the comments: "It’s interesting you blogged about tweets not being private. What about in terms of what a journalist should do if they are given access to a private Twitter account? I recently stumbled on this story, what do you think the ethical call should have been?"
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"One former BBC employee says..."
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"Every couple of weeks, one of my colleagues in the content strategy community wigs out a little bit about marketing people co-opting “our” terms and processes for their own (presumably nefarious) ends. As a content strategist who comes from the world formerly known as “web design” (and now mostly called “user experience”), I’ve felt sympathetic twitches when I see these complaints." [via @emcguane]
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As one of the rare remaining Movable Type platform loyalists, I'm interested in this debate
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...and another take on it
MT didn't lose because Wordpress 'won'.
It lost because installing it killed your server as soon as the first spambot found out where you were keeping the comment-post script. Used to manage a commercial blog network and buttonholed one of the 6A people in London when I still lived there - the response was essentially 'nob off, we don't care'.
Wordpress is in a great many ways bloody awful. But it couldn't ever be as awful as that. At this point there's no point in fixing MT (if they haven't already) because... who cares anymore?