Blog.com is, as you'd expect, a Blogger/Blogspot analog with a very desirable domain name, and it's currently in beta. The interesting thing is, I'm talking about portuguese technology. Thumbs up to André Restivo for making it real. These kind of things don't need necessarily to come out of chic San Francisco or hip New York. Porto will do. ¶

Re: the Movable Type shooting their own foot thing. A final argument could be that MT3.0-Free is a much inferior product compared to MT2.6-Free. But not only that, MT3.0-PayingNinetyBucks is still worse than MT2.6-Free. Better than it, actually, only MT3.0-HundredsOfBucks. Not worth it. But if you consider that a high end CMS like Typo3 is both free software and Free Software, that really ought to get you thinking. ¶



Last week I went to visit the Serralves Museum of Modern Art as I usually do every three months or so, so that I can get a grip in the latest crap postmodernist critique has legitimized. This time it wasn't that bad - there were a few interesting installations involving speakers playing glitchy CD skipping unmusic, a truly hardcore sensory deprivation experiment consisting of a very brightly lit room totally painted in bright white and full of white smoke, and a big collection of photos and postcards by late 70s and 80s Soviet artists which as always look like something out of an entirely alternate universe. A few photos I took during the visit are here. The intriguing image you see above is actually a photo of the park surrounding the museum, shot through a window which had been covered with a strong green acetate. My crappy CMOS-based toycam did some freakish compensation, hence the weird result. Now there's some use for those gel filter catalogs I've got lying around. ¶