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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Comments (12)

  1. westi wrote::

    Brilliant! Well done Lloyd.

    Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 11:24 pm #
  2. Brent O. wrote::

    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.

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 5:06 am #
  3. Chris Cagle wrote::

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

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 9:16 am #
  4. Mike wrote::

    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

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 10:33 am #
  5. Rick Beckman wrote::

    That was gold, dude. Thanks for the laugh!

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 1:36 pm #
  6. Mark Jaquith wrote::

    Delayed comment publishing is pretty bizarre, in 2008.

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 1:56 pm #
  7. johnbillion wrote::

    Lloyd that voiceover was supreme! Bloody good effort.

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 2:40 pm #
  8. Brad wrote::

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

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 3:16 pm #
  9. The Real MT wrote::

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

    Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 11:59 pm #
  10. Kirk M wrote::

    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.

    Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 7:10 am #
  11. Matt G. wrote::

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

    Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 8:08 am #
  12. Wilson Pon wrote::

    Oh my god, this is really hilarious indeed…lol

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

    Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 11:27 am #

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