Tag Archives: Movable Type
The TypePad Trap
So during my talk “Switching to WordPress Painlessly” at WordCamp, (video coming soon!) Six Apart’s Open Platforms Tech Lead David Recordon was in the audience and rather than have a chat with me at any one of the numerous times … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Also tagged Anil Dash, AtomPub, Christopher Alden, Data Portability, Dave Winer, David Recordon, Export, Import, Importer, Open Web, Ronald Heft Jr, Six Apart, Switching to WordPres Painlessly, TypePad, Web Standards, WordCamp, WordCamp SF 2008, WordPress
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Movable Type and TypePad Passwords in Plain Text
“If Movable Type was as popular, and under the same amount of scrutiny, I can’t imagine they would still be storing passwords as plain text.” upset at least one reader of “Movable Type Pro, Setting Social Networking Free, Vaporware, WordPress, … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging
Also tagged Authentication, TypePad, Web Security, WordPress, WordPress Security, WSSE
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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 … Continue reading
I’m Biased, But Try Movable Type and Drupal
Anil Dash has written an article titled “A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide” on the official movabletype.com blog. It is full of misdirection, and, thankfully, overall it hasn’t been well received. What excites me is it has sparked some excellent … Continue reading
Posted in WordPress
Also tagged A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide, Anil Dash, Automattic, Bias, Blogging Software, Boris Mann, Byrne Reese, Collaboration, Darren Hoyt, Don Dodge, Expression Engine, Jeff Jones, Matt Mullenweg, Michael Sippey, Open Source, Raincity Studios, Shelley Powers, Six Apart, WordPress, WordPress 2.5
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Movable Type to support Pingback!
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.
Posted in Blogging
Also tagged Blogging, Byrne Reese, linkback, Pingback, protocol, specification, TrackBack, WordPress
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15 Minutes to Publish!
Down to a few few seconds after migrating China Digital Times from Movable Type to WordPress.
Go to the Scot Hacker Bird House and read Notes on a Massive WordPress Migration. Scott, the webmaster of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of … Continue reading
Posted in Opinion
Also tagged China Digital Times, O’Reilly author, Scot Hacker, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, WordPress
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MaadMob Dumps MT for WordPress
Amazing information architect and interaction designer, Donna Maurer, dumped Movable Type after 5 year relationship for WordPress.
Posted in WordPress
Also tagged Australia, Donna Maurer, Happy Cog, iA Summit, Jeffrey Zeldman, Liz Danzico, MaadMob, WordPress, WordPress 5-minute install
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Movable Type 200% Open Source!
Where 100% and fully are not quite the definitions I’m used to.
Yes, Movable Type Open Source should be celebrated! It is awesome that it already includes everything that was released as Movable Type 4.0 and more. As I understand it … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source
Also tagged Anil Dash, Byrne Reese, freedom, Mark Jaquith, movable type 4, mtos, Open Source, Six Apart, Tom Keating, Zeremy Zawodny
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