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 we passed during the day, he made this cute tweat instead:

There are a couple of [...]

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, BuddyPress“. His comment wasn’t polite, so I’ll answer without here without publishing it or calling [...]

Movable Type Pro, Setting Social Networking Free, Vaporware, WordPress, BuddyPress

Six Apart VP Anil’s response today on the official Six Apart blog to my Movable Type Pro Introduction video parody doesn’t surprise me, but where is the link love?

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 [...]

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 discussions, and it’s a great launching point for more conversations.
I whole heartily recommend you try [...]

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.

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 Journalism, and O’Reilly author knows his stuff, and backs it up with the data. Brilliant [...]

MaadMob Dumps MT for WordPress

Amazing information architect and interaction designer, Donna Maurer, dumped Movable Type after 5 year relationship for WordPress.

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 there should soon be a stable release. But I am confused by the conversations I [...]

Todd Cochrane Doesn’t Like MT4’s Podcasting Support, and What That Really Means For WordPress

Todd Cochrane who wrote the book on podcasting, Podcasting: Do It Yourself Guide, wrote a harsh post about Movable Type 4 not living up to its announced podcasting support claims. The article begins:
From today forward I will no longer recommend Movable Type as a viable new media blogging / podcasting platform. I will recommend Wordpress [...]