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WordPress, Six Apart silences and communities Paid Members Public
The company that was Six Apart is gone. The name and Movable Type are ensconced in Japan [http://blog.saymedia.com/2011/01/movable-type-finds-new-home-at-infocom.html], Vox is dead and Typepad is part of SAY Media. It seems an appropriate time for a post-mortem, and that’s just what former Typepad
The WordPress Attack, Competition and Blogging Innovation Paid Members Public
John Gruber mused [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack] : > I have to wonder when WordPress users will start switching to some other platform. There’s a reason it’s not happening. They can’t. There are no good alternatives for a less technical user who wants to
Aksimet: Too Enthusiastic in Spamming Comments? Paid Members Public
Darren of Problogger finally articulates something that has been bothering me for a while: [Aksimet](http://akismet.com), Automattic’s comment spam filtering system, seems to be [throwing up a lot of false positives](http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/05/27/my-love-hate-relationship-with-akismet/) of late.I’ve been using Akismet
Blogging News Round-Up: Prologue, Activity Streams & New Typepad Paid Members Public
An interesting couple of days in blogging technology: * Automattic announced the Prologue theme for WordPress.com [http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/01/28/introducing-prologue/], 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 [http:
Blog Tech Afternoon Paid Members Public
I’ve spent a chunk of the afternoon today dealing with various behind the scenes issues on my blogs. The most obvious to you will be that, at long last, the headlines of each post on this blog are now links that take you through to that entry’s own
Automattic acquires Intense Debate Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/09/intensedebate-automattic_blog.png] An e-mail was waiting for me when I got home, announcing that [Automattic has acquired Intense Debate](http://www.intensedebate.com/blog/2008/09/23/automattic-acquires-intensedebate/). For those not familiar with it, [Intense Debat](http://www.