Movable Type Pro with Comments

I’m sure Movable Type Pro is a fantastic product, but when I watched the introduction video in the announcement article I wasn’t feeling the “profoundly powerful new set of capabilities that shows the web where blogging is going next.”

I thought it was ripe for parody, and so here is my voice-over:

Update: Six Apart shared my video with all of their customers, but gave no link love or attribution to me (no Lloyd Budd anywhere in sight), see my response “Movable Type Pro, Setting Social Networking Free, Vaporware, WordPress, BuddyPress

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13 Responses to Movable Type Pro with Comments

  1. westi says:

    Brilliant! Well done Lloyd.

  2. Brent O. says:

    Comments! That’s so Web 3.0! Damn, why did I ever give up MovableType for WordPress? What was I thinking? I’m probably going to have to wait forever to get those cool “comments” on my blog. That sucks, because I’ve got thousands of friends dying to write messages about their casinos and pharmacies. WordPress is holdin’ me back, man.

  3. Chris Cagle says:

    This is hilarious Lloyd. Thanks for making me laugh about something that none of my other (non-geek) friends would ever get.

  4. Mike says:

    I had to go watch the original video after I stopped laughing from viewing yours. So because they give the ability to allow user comments, gives them the ability to build social networks…right. Well then, this commenting thing must be the wave of the future..HOLY CRAP. I’m writing one now! No offense to movable type though, the video just had it coming to them

  5. Rick Beckman says:

    That was gold, dude. Thanks for the laugh!

  6. Mark Jaquith says:

    Delayed comment publishing is pretty bizarre, in 2008.

  7. johnbillion says:

    Lloyd that voiceover was supreme! Bloody good effort.

  8. Brad says:

    That last sentence had me laughing: (superfast) just like every other blog engine ever made…

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  10. The Real MT says:

    Sounds great! How about some linguini to soak up that sauce?

  11. Kirk M says:

    So that’s what that little checkbox means in my Admin’s “Discussion” page. And I thought I only wrote posts, not articles that people could comment on. I thought like posts were different than articles.

    So, like, you mean, like, WordPress had that commenting thing all along? Dude! That’s like an awesome function! And here I was ready to ditch WordPress for MT Pro.

  12. Matt G. says:

    Sweetness. The video is great. Nice catch. The last I think too is really funny.

  13. Wilson Pon says:

    Oh my god, this is really hilarious indeed…lol

    By the way, thanks for the video and the laugh as well :)

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