Many people use Alexa as a generic “site comparison” service, but is it accurate? Here are some oddities I found:
Blogging Software
Niall Fixes Plaguing Movable Type Bug
I’m not sure if this is big news to all of you, but for designers/developers who work on sites run with Movable Type, it’ll probably be useful. Up till now, if you used custom submit images at the bottom of a comment form the entire comment-posting process wouldn’t work the way you expected. Either a comment would get previewed, but not posted, or it would put the user at the wrong template afterwards and wouldn’t record the comment. This behavior bothered me back when I was designing this iteration of the Business Logs site, since I had custom submit images all made up, but I could never figure out the problem.
Flock Soars Like An Ostrich
With the private beta scrapped because of P2P leaks of the Flock installer, the bird team decided to step-up and drop a public beta into everybody’s laps. Their Flock homepage is full of disclaimers, but that didn’t stop some people from raining on their parade:
Content Management for Weblogs
Weblog management software is a type of content management, so why do so many weblog publishing applications not let you handle other types of content in the same elegant manner? In my experience, all content you handle is called “posts”, “entries”, “articles”, “logs” — but how is that intuitive? By pigeonholing content into pre-defined terms, you’re virtually eliminating flexibility.