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 [...]
Today, people all around the world are celebrating that five years ago today the first version of WordPress was released!
Of course, most people’s celebration is limited to Happy Birthday WordPress posts. It’s awesome reading them; most posts (subtlety) demonstrate the authors own participation in WordPress. We’re all the developers of WordPress!
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I found a gem of a blog the other day, Darth Mojo. It is written by BattleStar Galactica Visual Effects Designer, Adam “Mojo” Lebowitz. The blog’s tag line is “the dark chocolate side of the force”. As well as in depth BSG insider info, he geeks out on Star Trek, Star Wars, and all [...]
Greta Van Susteren’s, the host of Fox News On the Record, GretaWire is a fantastic combination of blogging and social media.
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Bloggers and problems enter, only bloggers exit!
Friday, Feb 22, day 1 of the 4th annual Northern Voice including an “internet bootcamp” for people new to blogging, Facebook, podcasting, wikis, and more. It is an awesome logging conference being held again at the Forestry Sciences Centre at UBC! It’s Tim Bray’s “favorite little blogger conclave.” This [...]
I just read with interest Movable Type Product Manager, the fantastic Byrne Reese’s “Implementing Ping Back for Movable Type“. This is fantastic and long overdue!
This is good news for all bloggers. Someday soon trackbacks can be retired.
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When in conversations with people championing freedom causes using Google Blogger or Six Apart TypePad, I share that myself and many people find it upsetting that they do so using proprietary software.
The inconvenience and their frustrations with software usually leaves them too afraid to even consider switching to another publishing platform.
It is ok that it [...]
Andy Olmsted, a US Army Major was killed in Iraq on Jan. 3, 2008. The following day his friend published Final Post written by Andy in case he was killed.
I highly recommend you read it, and the other articles this very thoughtful and articulate person shared on his blog and in other online communities. [...]