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Wednesday, February 05, 2003

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]

I'd rather stay with Radio but this is something I'm looking into. 


7:56:31 AM    

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]


7:40:35 AM    

Truth … Or Scare? MS To Chop Windows Prices?. In its latest 10Q filing, Microsoft throws in its usual disclaimers about the potentially damaging impact of open source on its commercial software business. But this time it also warns that competitive pressure from open source may force Redmond to lower software prices. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley]
7:36:37 AM    

Cyrusoft International and Carnegie Mellon to Collaborate on Next Major Mulberry Release .... PRNewswire (press release) - 04 Feb 2003
CMU HCI Masters students will help add `user-friendly' interfaces to Mulberry's technical power." Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon's Herbert Simon Professor of Human-Computer Interaction ... [Google News Search: carnegie mellon human computer interaction]
7:24:20 AM    

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