Category: Products

I found one of my recent posts appropriated (plagiarized) at a clickfraud spam blog called Christian-radio, hosted or created by a tool called BlogSolution that appears to be designed to create splogs. Welcome back my friends, to the tragedy of the commons that never ends.

Quoting from Google Blog: This was posted from Microsoft Word: Last July, a few of us visited the Democratic National Convention to see political bloggers in action. Many were using Microsoft Word to post their reports. It was a multi-step process that didn’t look like fun, but for citizen journalists, punctuation, spelling and grammar are…

I really should get off my ass and get a blogads account. All my blogs together might cover my bandwidth costs, anyway. I don’t think I’m PM material (Charles Johnson creeps me out, for one thing), but even if I were it sounds like a dubious plan. In Althouse: Pajamas Media vs. BlogAds — the…

Frances Pabon over at Good Bloggin’ alerts me that

I’m looking forward to testing out the new version of Movable Type (Movable Type 3.2 Beta) – if only for the new administrative features.

an interesting discussion in the Textpattern support forum pulls together statements from the creators of Greymatter, Movable Type, and Radio Userland describing the genesis of each application. What’s fascinating is how different they are. Someone should gather analogous statements about Blogger, Textpattern, WordPress, and so on.

Typo “provides a fast and easy way to start a weblog and manage it with a rich desktop client application like MarsEdit or ecto.”

Quoting from Blogging and Ping-O-Matic built into Mac OS X “Tiger” In Ping-O-Matic in Blojsom we learn that Tiger will ship with Blojsom, a Java based mutli-user blogging system. And Blojsom has built in support for Ping-O-Matic. Nice. I wonder how Apple will package it up. Will blogging be one of the sleeper features in…

The other day I was talking to someone about Steve Rubel’s great Micro Persuasion weblog and the energy and enthusiasm he demonstrates as he avidly filters key blog news and posts about whatever he cares about (note to self: add his headlines to the list of feeds down the right side…). Anyway, I just scored…

But he is pointing to people sitting near him who are. I’m in the Blogging Showdown session that hasn’t commenced yet, where we’ll get to hear some of the leading lights of nanopublishing comparing their products and maybe even confessing to some of the warts therein. If not, I’m sure the audience will hold their…

In A Whole Lotta Nothing: Blogspot is hurting America, Matt Haughey points out that Google’s blog hosting service is becoming part of the typical spammer’s infrastructure. Given that the quest for page rank also underlies most of the problems with comment and trackback spam, isn’t it about time Google started closing some of these loopholes?…

I upgraded most of the sites I publish or host to Movable Type 3.15 a few weeks ago and for the most part the transition was fairly painless, but for some reason the Edgewise blog gives me trouble when I try to rebuild older pages. That is, new posts go up as they should, but…

Livejournal confirms the rumored sale to Six Apart (via Waxy.org Links): Mena discusses the purchase, and Six Apart’s Livejournal FAQ and press release

Six Apart to buy Livejournal!? “holy crap!,” says Andy Baio [via] Holy consolidation, batman, says I.

BLOG:CMS appears to be a fairly full featured open-source blog / content management system. I believe Martini Republic uses this application. I’d like to hear from people who have compared it to some of the other popular blog and open source CMSes.

Obligatory MSN hosted blogging service post, autoquoting from MSN Spaces = soylent green Xeni Jardin: Updated. Today, Microsoft launches their free hosted blogging platform, spaces.msn.com. What effect the service will have on Blogger, TypePad, Userland, and the like is, predictably, a subject of great debate. The service is free, and seems aimed squarely at home…

Quoting from Scripting News: Mary Jo: “Microsoft’s MSN division is expected to take the wraps off its MSN Spaces blogging service this week, according to sources close to the company.”

So this weird thing happened over the weekend. Somehow, Monday morning, none of my bloggers were able to post to any of the blogs I host with Movable Type. And MT was acting strange in other ways. It listed each of my hosted blogs as having no comments at all. Actually, it didn’t list 0…

At inessential.com Brent Simmons explains some of the user-interface design decisions that went into his new MarsEdit weblog-posting product for Mac OS X. (It is in beta currently and is free for paid-up users of NetNewsWire.) It’s a pretty good tool although being in beta it still has a few flakey behaviors. My recent flurry…

In evhead: Next?, Evan Williams explains that he’s been on the startup dotcom treadmill for six years now and needs to work on some other aspects of his life. Sounds like a healthy move. He answers all of the inevitable questions in his post, debunking in advance any potential rumor of a shakeup or forceout.…