Congeries of cross connected concepts
Winds of Change is switching from Movable Type to WordPress as their weblogging software. It seems they were done in by junk trackback floods. I recommended some of my tools (like AutoBan and Trackback By Name) but not being part of the in crowd they were not adopted. Oh well. I can hardly think too ill of WoC because SixApart, the MT company, has shown no interest in my junk defense technology either. I wonder how long it will be before MT is used only on internal corporate networks where there is no need for anything except trivial anti-junk protection. I, personally, am stuck for a while because I have too many plugins that I depend on that don’t work in anything else. I can only hope that if I hold out for another couple years, the Zend Engine will rescue Perl as a viable web application language by supporting the robust embedding of the interpreter in the web server, which is currently the main advantage of PHP over Perl.
