Silly Ecto, no corporate licenses for you
I’m a little peeved at the developers of ecto (a quite nice blogging client for OSX). It turns out that whenever you add a new blog to post to, the default settings include a ping to technorati, weblogs.com, and blo.gs. They say that this is default behavior in Moveable Type but that is patently untrue, you have to explicitly enable that kind of behavior in MT.
So this really bit me at work before I realized it. Since we’re doing some extensive blogging on our corporate intranet right now, ecto was going ahead and pinging external public web sites about entries going on to our internal proprietary system.
UPDATE: Adriaan has mailed me back in response to my queries and explained his reasoning, and said he will remove the default behavior in the next version. I’m very happy about that, and glad I paid for the product a while ago.
Once removed, it’ll stay removed. I am not sure why you think this is a bad idea - weblogging being basically a public activity I think the pings are perfect to have. I removed them once, after looking over the app, and never again worried about them.
Well, if you want to deploy this tool inside a corporation that is using blogging for internal purposes, then the default public ping is a bad idea. I realize that all you have to do is tell users to go and delete those pings when they setup the blogs, but that’s a bit of administrative overhead that most IT organizations won’t want to take on.