Category: Products

Noticed in my sidebar, The Blog Herald (which needs an editor as bad as I do), reports that undisclosed sources inside Yahoo! say “that the company is already in talks with a number of blogging firms, looking for the right acquisition vehicle to integrate into the Yahoo! stable of sites.” It seems more likely to…

John Robb notes the orange XML (RSS) icon on this Korean Yahoo blog page called

Did the Six Apart people think about the fact that TypePad will inevitably be abbreviated as TP, and that TP already has a vernacular association in English? Though I guess no one yet has said, “MT means empty” or “RU completely satisfied?” so it’s probably no big worry.

John Robb reminds me that Radio and Manila both have blog-to-email bridges (and both have post-by-email as well), in response to my Weblog-to-email plug-in? query. Radio users can go to http://127.0.0.1:5335/system/pages/prefs?page=5.12 to turn on a service that sends weblog headlines by email to an address you specify. When I tried using this feature I ran…

A friend asked me to recommend a good third-party plug-in for automatically turning weblog posts into mailing-list messages. I’ve got the Bloglet service plugged into this site but I subscribed myself when I signed up and haven’t gotten a post in months, so I don’t know if that’s just me or if it’s a flaky…

Richard Silverstein has written a comparison between Typepad and Blogger. Neither product has mature enough photoblogging capabilities for Richard’s liking, but he sides with TypePad overall, despite a steeper price.