Free Post blogging Technorati Interviews Typepad. Hello, 2005... It’s like 2005’s blogging world came back… (Snark aside, it’s interesting that both are still around, despite social media’s relentless neophillia, and that Jeff Reine has some interesting things to say. Watch part two for some interesting stuff on the
Free Post ad networks Where now for Movable Type and Typepad? Here’s a thing to discover just before you go to bed: Six Apart, the company that produces the blog software that’s at the heart of much of my day job, is about to be sold. In its new incarnation as part of
Free Post content What Does Facebook Like Do For Blog Traffic? The Typepad team have just published a graph of referrals from Facebook since they made Facebook Like available as an option for their users: [
Free Post blog platforms Monetising Conversation Six Apart have added an interesting feature to their Typepad hosted blogging platform. Typepad Conversations is reminiscent of Vox‘s QotD – a daily question which people can answer as fodder for their own blogs. The interesting thing is that some of these questions are
Free Post blog platforms The Merger of Blogs and Social Networks One of the “joys” of living in the social media world is those days that you wake up, and discover your e-mail in-box crammed with something – comments on one of your posts, Twitter follows or, as happened this morning, a metric ton of new
Free Post blog platforms Innovation in Blog Platforms Occasionally in recent months, I’ve bemoaned the lack of innovation in blog platforms. However, I’m not being very precise in my use of language there. What I actually mean is the lack of innovation in self-hosted blog platforms – ones you actually upload
Free Post blog platforms More on the WordPress Hackings A couple of interesting posts have cropped up since I posted about the WordPress problems over the weekend. Kevin Anderson has followed up, looking at the security risks (or lack of them) around WordPress: Security analyst David Kierznowski at BlogSecurity has a list of
Free Post hackopalypse Blogging Your Way Out of the Hackopalypse? In a meeting earlier, I made a throw-away remark about the publishing news being so bad between now and next spring that all our journalists will be scared stiff. I was joking. But judging by the news coming in (hat tip to Heidi from
Free Post akismet The One Man Report - June 2nd Back in London, back at work. And this is what has been occupying me today: 1. Movable Type 4.1 has been working very well for us during my week away. We’re into “steady as she goes” mode, until we go up to
Free Post blogging Posting a Blog Post From Facebook Good morning all. I’m posting to this blog in a whole new way this morning. I’m actually typing this in Facebook, using the new Blog It Facebook app released by Six Apart over night. Now, it’s not massively sophisticated. No WYSIWYG.
Free Post action streams Blogging News Round-Up: Prologue, Activity Streams & New Typepad An interesting couple of days in blogging technology: Automattic announced the Prologue theme for WordPress.com, which seems to be an attempt to create Twitter-like functionality to their platform for workgroups Genial Chris Alden announced some major changes coming to Typepad, and not before
Free Post hosting Publishers Need To Get A Grip On Hosting Martin at Press Gazette has spotted something interesting: The Times website suffered under load this morning, and so visitors were directed to the Typepad-hosted blogs instead. Following The Telegraph‘s problems earlier in the week, this does beg the question: why don’t more
Free Post blog platforms Six Apart on Future Blogging I’m not a huge fan of Robert Scoble‘s very static video interview style (I don’t think he really takes advantage of the visual nature of the medium), but this interview with some folks from Six Apart is worth a watch, if
Free Post site problems Typekey Problems Resolved Apologies to anyone who tried to comment on here with Typekey in the last few days. It wasn’t working, but all is now fixed. It appears that I had a bad case of absent trailing slashes. Don’t you hate it when that
