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The Globe uses Movable Type - badly
By adamg on Tue, 12/06/2005 - 9:36am
Kudos to Globe ombudsman Richard Chacon for wading into the blogging pool (now let's get video blogging Globe reporter Emily Sweeney to interview him!).
Fie on whoever fed Chacon this:
... But on the point about real time, I explained to Eric that this particular version of Movable Type - the blogging program that the Globe uses - does not allow real-time comments to be posted. Yes, I know that other blogging programs allow for real-time comments, and if this version doesn't seem to work well for us and readers, then we may consider switching to another platform. ...
As anybody who's ever used Movable Type knows, that's just plain wrong. That the Globe might choose to disable comments is fine. But please.
Via Dan who read about the blog in Sunday's paper, which, alas, still sits in our foyer, wrapped in plastic.
A post about the Globe? Gotta conclude with my standard disclaimer.
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I can't fully blame them for wanting to block comments, the sorts of comments that are posted on the Israeli moderate/left newspaper Ha'aretz really defend the choice to not have comments. For some reason Ha'aretz seems to attract the most hateful people from every possible end of every spectrum that you could ever think of, and at least on the English side, they're all posted and never moderated.
But why he would say that/be told that is beyond me.