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Server Upgrade: Video Status Report Members Public

Watch me stumble over technical stuff on Seesmic:

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Adam Tinworth
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When Servers Go Down Members Public

It’s going to be a long day: looks like we have a problem with the database server underlying our Movable Type installation, and it’s been down for much of the weekend. Technology is such a bitter-sweet joy, isn’t it?

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Adam Tinworth
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Blogging News Round-Up: Prologue, Activity Streams & New Typepad 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:

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Adam Tinworth
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Six Apart Upgrades Vox Members Public

Six Apart have just updated Vox, their consumer blogging platform with a social networking bent. It’s notabley faster to use, and now you can embed any video, photo or audio you upload elsewhere, which is rather cool. For example, here’s a video I uploaded of our blogathon at

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Adam Tinworth
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Six Apart on Future Blogging Members Public

I’m not a huge fan of Robert Scoble [http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/12/the-future-of-moveable-type-vox-typepad-and-live-journal/] ‘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,

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Adam Tinworth
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Wordpress Woes Members Public

You know, I keep hearing about how difficult Movable Type is to install & maintain, but I’ve never had any real trouble doing it. I just upgraded my WordPress blog, Coffee & Complexity [http://www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/], to version 2.3 [http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-23/]. It

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Adam Tinworth
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Le Web 3: Mena Trott Members Public

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/adders/320564967/] Mena Trott [http://www.sixapart.com/corner/], star of last year’s big controversy [http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2005/12/07/les-blogs-me-mena/] is on stage, giving a very, very quick presentations on what Six Apart [http://www.sixapart.com/] has learnt

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Adam Tinworth
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Vox-up: the good and the bad Members Public

Good news and bad on Vox [http://www.vox.com], which is Six Apart [http://www.sixapart.com]‘s new blogging platform from talking to friends and family rather than publishing to the world. I was kindly provided with an invite to Vox’s starter level, which allows you to

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Adam Tinworth
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