Results tagged “Culture”
Harold Check: Blogging and Inspiration
Harold Check is one of the quiet innovators of blogging, having started publishing his personal site Offhand Remarks ten years ago. In the interim, he's contributed to dozens of blogs, most recently as part of our own team at Six Apart, shepherding some of our best blogs into existence, such as TypePad Featured Blogs and the TypePad Books blog and podcast series.
Michael Sippey: Anything But Obvious
Many people in the Six Apart community know Michael Sippey from his work as our VP of Products -- when you see something like Amazon's new widgets for TypePad, it's Michael's tireless advocacy and leadership that makes those sorts of features happen.
Leslie Harpold: Always Fearless, Never Smug
If you didn’t know her work, you might fear that someone who owned the domain names fearless.net and smug.com might be a bit, well… prickly. But more than 10 years after Leslie Harpold helped start some of the most...
Thanks, Dave!
Yesterday, Dave Winer celebrated the 10th anniversary of Scripting News, his seminal and enormously influential blog at scripting.com. Dave co-created or popularized of a broad range of blogging technologies — from RSS to podcasting to blogging itself. So this week,...
What's the News?
We've had a bunch of recent press stories about the different projects we're working on at Six Apart, so it makes sense to highlight a few of the ones that are particularly interesting. BusinessWeek takes a look at new networks...
Microsoft Supports OpenID: A Belated Birthday Present
Have you heard about OpenID? The simple idea that your web address is one form of identity, just like your email adddress or even your physical address? Well, back in December, we mentioned how OpenID has been gaining momentum like...
Science + Blogs = Wired
Wired has just launched Wired Science, a new one-hour primetime TV series on PBS. And as you'd expect, the new series has an exceptional presence online. Not only can you watch the pilot, there's a well-written TypePad-powered Wired Science Blog....
Time Meant "Us", Not "You"
Time made a big splash (and caused a few rolled eyeballs) when they named “You”, the citizens of Web 2.0, as the Person of the Year for 2006 a few weeks ago. But amidst all the congratulations and second-guessing in...
Does Ellen's blog feature a Frank cameo?
Sure, as part of the The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen keeps a Movable Type-powered blog with peeks behind the scenes of her popular daytime show. But when Ellen posted her recent American Express commercial, we couldn’t help but notice...
Digging up info on Gopher
Thanks to Jason Kottke’s recent blog post about Gopher, people are discovering or rediscovering Gopher. Gopher is a text-based system for navigating documents on the Internet that was extremely popular in the early 90s and helped create and influence...
Blogs for all ages
The New York Times today has a story on older bloggers enriching their lives by starting blogs and engaging with people online. Prominently featured is Ronni Bennett's Time Goes By, one of the very first sites we ever featured on...
Interview with Paul Bausch
As part of a new occasional series of interviews here on Six Log, we're going to be talking to people who actually make stuff, as opposed to the usual interviews with people who just talk about stuff. The goal is...
Encouraging Accountability through Personal Publishing
There's an increasing sense today that many of our most powerful institutions have become disconnected from the ordinary citizens they are supposed to represent. From questions about the accuracy and bias of the media to concerns over accountability of elected...
Newly Digital
Being longtime geeks ourselves, we couldn't help but love the project that longtime contributor to the Movable Type community Adam Kalsey has created: Newly Digital. In this experimental writing project, a number of great online writers recall their first experiences...
Photo Blogs Coming of Age
Today's New York Times has a nice feature on photo blogs, giving a bit of background on how they're used and how communities are developing around the images that people are sharing on the web. One of the featured starting...
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Congratulations to Cory Doctorow on the publication of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. We helped build his site because he's a good guy and he's written a great book. I pre-ordered a copy in September despite the fact...
