Close that blockquote tag!

Matt Weiner wrote, "Close that blockquote tag!"

Yeah.

For all the hype about blogging software, how much would it really take to have the software close tags? (Most especially in the comments section.)

Or, for that matter, write some kind of hash table to discard accidentally duplicated posts?

And isn't there some MT "feature" that does some ridiculously long regex search on comments in an effort to cut down on spam or something?

"Close that blockquote tag!"

I think this is an attempt on Brad's part to show that MT is the MS of the blogosphere. Overpriced, underperforming, yet curiously successful.

"Blogger (and Groksoup) started in 1999, two years before Six Apart"

Oh, and country miles behind on the technology frontier.

"Oh, and country miles behind on the technology frontier."

Indeed. The "Blogger" of old was hardly the best example to choose in arguing that "timing, not technology, is everything in business" ...

Liberal,

Typepad has a wysiwyg interface now and it makes open html tags pretty much a thing of the past. Now if they could only do that in comments . . .

Overpriced, underperforming, yet curiously successful?

Could someone explain to me how Blogger has ever been superior to MT? I didn't think so. Seems to me that MT really kicks butt, has always been highly expandible with it's plug-in architecture, and the majority of bloggers (including me) don't pay a dime for it.

Why is it that everyone wants to be a millionaire, but everyone hates people when they become millionaires? Jealous bitches!

Two things struck me about the story:

1. "The revenue stream, which the Trotts declined to disclose, has enabled the privately held Six Apart to expand from just six employees in early 2004 to more than 70"

Since it isn't disclosed, neither we nor the reporter can know that it's enabled the expansion. Some of the expansion, at least, has presumably been financed by venture capital.

2. 70 people seems a lot. More than 70 seems even more.

This analysis is complete nonsense. The fact is Blogger has a reputation for being very buggy and unreliable. Many of the people who moved to Movable Type where simply fed up with Blogger.

If that isn't a technological consideration, I don't know what is.

OT: but what do all you economist make of this Daily Kos story?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/20/19343/7771#56

Is this a sign of recession?

I like MT. But what I see in Six Apart lately is the kind of delusion that was rampant during the recent dotcom era. They're looking to make money in the CM space; but where their product is positioned it will get bulldozed by some much bigger players.

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