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May 18, 2004
How Do You Use The Tool?
Mena of Six Apart, trying to get more information on the MT3 announcement reaction, is asking people how they use the tool in ways that the license doesn't cover. I'll refer to this, which discusses the three blogs I've set up at work - one of which is single author and presents as a webzine, and the other two being news/events aggregators for the College of which will potentially have over a dozen authors each (especially the events item).
The capability of MT3 to make nigh-infinite authors made a lot of novel uses possible beyond the personal journal. Project blogs, collaborative fiction, family journals. The sudden change from a "donate $20 and use it to the limit" model to a model that makes heavy use of blog/author metrics will severely restrict the tool flexibility that had made MT such a popular tool.
I'm afraid I don't have an answer for the SA folks as to how to create a reasonable tiered pricing scheme that can doesn't create these arbitary limits. But it's a massive sea-change in how people approached the tool...
Posted by jim at May 18, 2004 11:12 AM