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 Computer Weekly [http://twitter.com/computerweekly]
Automattic
[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.
Blogs
However, it feels like there’s still a significant amount of work for the team to do to make implementing this stuff easier. I’ve had an initial poke at adding the community stuff to this blog, using the instructions here [http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/designer/taking-advantage-of-community-features.html] , and
Blogging
Paid Content’s interview with Olivier Creiche of Six Apart [http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-video-interview-olivier-creiche-vp-six-apart-selling-to-sup-and-the-end/] . Some interesting thoughts on the usage and evolution of Movable Type (and why they flogged Livejournal to the Russians):
akismet
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 [4.2](http://www.movabletype.org/
Blogging
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 [http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=14103720714] app released by Six Apart over night. Now, it’s not massively
Blogging
I’m having a frustrating evening. I’ve stacked up a series of blog posts for my various blogs, and I can’t publish them. There isn’t even a sniff of the cafe WiFi that we’re meant to have access to in this apartment, so I’m left
action streams
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:
abuse
For an opening session focusing on eeeevil on the web, it proved to be rather quiet. I think everybody was knackered, thanks to the early start… Laurent Haug [http://www.liftlab.com/laurent/] of LIFT [http://www.liftconference.com/] kicked things off by asking if there is a thirst for
blog platforms
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
movable type
The Open Source version of Movable Type [http://www.movabletype.org/2007/12/movable_type_open_source.html] has just been released.
Blogging
Six Apart has flogged Livejournal [http://news.livejournal.com/104520.html], home of my very first blog, to a Russian media outfit that rejoices in the name Sup. Business Week has a good analysis of what this might mean. [http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc2007123_052837.htm] There’
