Oct 28, 2012
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Craig Dietrich's talk "When Relational Isn't Enough: Software Architectures for Scholarly Production" at the Critical Code Studies conference 2010. His argument seems to be:
1. Wordpress is not intrinsically good - especially when used for scholarly production (I can agree to this!) 2. Wordpress runs on MySQL which is a relational database. (Dead-on!) 3. Wordpress is too limited because it makes use of a relational database. (OK, OK, I would agree that relational database technologies have serious shortcomings and shouldn't be treated as the Swiss army knife of data processing, but it seems to me that Dietrich is jumping to his conclusion. Why? Because the alternative he proposed to relational databases are Semantic Web technologies which are not at all incommensurable to the structure and logic of relational databases.)