Category: Products

Dana Blankenhorn has written a long reply to Dave’s criticism of the Dean campaign, and I’m still a little confused. Is it that the Dean team should not feel free to develop and promulgate technical solutions to their own specific problems? How is that different from any sovereign entity doing so? Does a campaign have…

Where did Dave get the cockamamie idea that Howard Dean is in the software business? Is it based on the modified version of the open-source Drupal CMS called DeanSpace that some Dean supporters are distributing for free to encourage people to build sites for Dean that will generate and aggregate RSS feeds? If so, how…

Since I moved Radio Free Blogistan to Movable Type I’ve used my Radio software mainly as a public news aggregrator, building the Mediajunkie page from most of my RSS subscriptions. For some reason, though, the page stopped updating on August 30. I’m definitely still picking up new posts. I can see them on my desktop…

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.

TypePad launched as a preview release yesterday (Tuesday, August 5 – or, technically, 11:59 pm Pacific time, Monday, August 4). MovableBLOG offers a brief review of TypePad, pros and cons. I’ve been writing about the beta since I got in on it a few weeks ago. The most interesting issues, I think, are the pricing…

I just got pinged by Don Park. It kind of tickles. Jake Savin has completed work on Trackback for Radio. It looks very cool. It seems to do the autodiscovery and outgoing pinging automatically based on your entry links (so you can’t selectively ping or not, unless you don’t link). Actually Don’s entry pinged me…

Six Apart is gradually lifting the NDA for beta testers of TypePad, unveiling a specific interface detail each day this week. Today we’re allowed to talk about the template builder, which I do over on my TypePad blog (Linotype), in an entry called Best CSS-design interface yet.

Not Just A Pretty Girl compares the business models of Diaryland and Six Apart: Diaryland versus Movable Type: An interesting corollary to the Dairyland situation is the relationship between Movable Type, Movable Type Pro and TypePad. I’m an extremely happy MT user. I love MT. I think it’s the best thing ever. And it’s free.…

Following Rogers Cadenhead’s forthcoming Radio Kickstart, Anil Dash links to this book about Movable Type. Note to self: see if Anil’s daily links has its own RSS feed. D’oh! Of course it does.

Not sure if Zempt did the ping, so I’m posting with the bookmarklet now, second try at pinging Jake’s Radio ‘Blog: Wed, Jul 23, 2003.

Jake Savin, a very cool guy who works at UserLand, is demoing a Radio weblog with incoming Trackback pings turned on in this entry: Jake’s Radio ‘Blog: Wed, Jul 23, 2003. This post should work. The other half would be enabling Radio users to send Trackback pings when posting links to incoming-Trackback-enabled sites. (And telling…

Another parody from Denounce tacitly compares AOL Journals webloggers to spam, and over in the TypePad beta testing world a nascent community is born, unsure of its place in the pecking order, but pretty sure it’s above AOL and, from the sounds of it, Blogger as well. Verdict’s out from LiveJournal users but most of…

Shelley Powers is launching her *.forpoets.org domain and plans to employ four different weblog tools to build the four initial branches of the site (weblogging.forpoets.org, internet.forpoets.org, linux.forpoets.org, rdf.forpoets.org), and to launch each subdomain with an essay on the weblog tool being used. Even better, she is inviting her readers to recommend weblog tools for her…

Már Örlygsson explains

Found a link from Technorati: Top 50 Interesting Recent Blogs with Context in my referrers, went to check out the page, and saw a lot of unfamiliar listings with similarly formed titles. On a hunch, I started mousing over and sure enough most of them were LiveJournal blogs. Is Technorati manually mining LJ or have…

I installed Zempt , a free blog-posting client for Movable Type (and TypePad) and it’s pretty slick. It uses Really Simple Discoverability to set up the connection to your blog-server host. In fact, the Choose Blog pull-down list gives me access to both my MT installation and to my TypePad beta account. It’s hard to…