Post 2004, or, a MT intervention.

Movable Type, darling, we have to talk.

I tried an experiment two months ago, where I tried to put all my online data into you. Brief updates, links, everything would get dumped into good ol’ Movable Type. You’re a workhorse, and I knew you could handle it.

And you did, but there were some problems.

• All the extra stuff has really slowed you down. It now takes 2-5 minutes to post even a simple blip.

• Your web interface is really not easy to use. Once I tried MarsEdit, I could see that it wasn’t just trying to write from the iPhone - it’s just not easy to write in your web interface.

• Putting everything together has resulted in a lot of clutter. The last two months are huge. And they’re mostly text. I looked up last night and saw pages and pages of links, with very little content.

And that’s just not right. You should be used for what you’re good at, not shoehorned into a whole set of other tasks.

So. I’m sorry I tried to make you do all those other things. Let me let you get back to doing what you’re good at - publishing stories.

I’ll move the other things off to sites and software that are made for them.

Have a good night.