{"id":2110,"date":"2004-05-15T14:59:34","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2004\/05\/15\/butterflies-and-bloggers\/"},"modified":"2004-05-15T14:59:34","modified_gmt":"2004-05-15T14:59:34","slug":"butterflies-and-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2004\/05\/15\/butterflies-and-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterflies and bloggers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&#8220;[[wp:Butterfly Effect]]&#8221; is the term that comes to mind. A small nudge can result in a big change. Bloggers are like that. We&#8217;ll change software on a dime if we have a reason. 6A benefited from this, and now they are getting hammered by it.<\/p>\n<p>As predicted there has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sixapart.com\/log\/2004\/05\/movable_type_30.shtml#trackback\">been some clarification<\/a> (read major change) from the 6A folks about Movable Type. Honestly? I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to change anything. The damage has been primarily done and while many will now feel comfortable staying many will be gone.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Again, this isn&#8217;t really about people not wanting to pay for good software. In that way at least &#8216;bloggers seem to be wholly more intelligent that your average [[\/.]] Linux <strike>music pirate<\/strike> zealot. Bloggers have no problem paying a reasonable price for software in general &#8211; they simply didn&#8217;t find the price in this case to be reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, bloggers that run their own software are also usually technically savvy and we have a wide range of options to choose from. A seeming contradiction: we are loyal, we have fads, we experiment.&nbsp; On one hand we are comfortable with our set-ups once we have them right and on the other if you give us a reason to try something else we are pretty happy to do that.<\/p>\n<p>I think the butterflies have flown.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scriptygoddess.com\/archives\/005115.php\">scriptygoddess<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bradchoate.com\/weblog\/2004\/05\/15\/mt3\">Brad Choate- Movable Type 3.0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/wlg\/4870\">O&#8217;Reilly Network- Movable Type 3.0 and Eating. [May. 14, 2004]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/archives\/2004\/05\/14\/freedom-0\">Freedom 0 [dive into mark]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timaoutloud.org\/archives\/000351.html\">tima thinking outloud &#8211; Closure on the MT3 Licensing Fury.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/archives\/2004\/05\/14\/never-kick-a-sleeping-giant\/\">Burningbird ? Never Kick a Sleeping Giant<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.carthik.net\/vault\/2004\/05\/14\/movabletype-to-wordpress\/\">C A R T H I K . N E T ? Moving from movable type to WordPress<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&#8220;[[wp:Butterfly Effect]]&#8221; is the term that comes to mind. A small nudge can result in a big change. Bloggers are like that. We&#8217;ll change software on a dime if we have a reason. 6A benefited from this, and now they are getting hammered by it. As predicted there has been some clarification (read major change) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}