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An Interview: Apperceptive, Boing Boing and MT4

As we’ve mentioned on the Movable Type news blog, today Boing Boing, the immensely popular “Directory of Wonderful Things”, relaunched on the Movable Type 4.0 platform. There were a lot of people and organizations involved in the effort, but one...

Seed Magazine launches with Movable Type

Seed Magazine, a magazine devoted to the connections between science and society, wanted to relaunch their website along with the redesign of their magazine. It's a beautifully designed, intuitive site, making full use of some of our favorite features of...

The Crushing Blow

The Crushing Blow is a promotional site for the Ford Fusion done in Movable Type. But the fun starts with the videoblogging aspect of the site. The videos follow a fake (or are they?) band, Hurra Torpedo, "a rock band...

Fuji's bird's-eye view on blogs

Many of you have seen the Fuji blimp hovering above your cities and big sporting events, but did you know that it's got a blog of its own? Indeed. The Movable-Type powered Fuji Blimp Captain's Blog (insert Star Trek joke...

ABC News launches blogs

Though they're best known for their television coverage, the correspondents at ABC News are making good use of the web in their new collection of blogs. Powered by TypePad, the blogs give correspondents like Jake Tapper, Ned Potter, and Manny...

In Praise of "Overheard in New York"

The site's not new, but some of the appreciation for it is. Long-time favorite Overheard in New York (the content there isn't always safe for work) has always been a blog that gets attention. But the Movable Type-powered site full...

Adobe Blogs Launches

We're very excited to see our friends at Adobe have just launched Adobe Blogs. It's a great leap forward for a company that makes the tools that many of us use every day, and Bill McCoy describes it well: ...I...

Comedy Central Insider

The team behind Comedy Central's lineup of mirth-inducing television has launched CC Insider, a new TypePad-powered blog that gives a look behind the scenes at the shows in their lineup, live appearances by comedians, and events in the comedy world...

JSAN, the JavaScript Archive Network

From the O'Reilly Radar blog comes word of JSAN, the JavaScript Archive Network. JSAN promises to be the central resource for the Javascript community in the same way that its near-namesake CPAN has strengthened and united the Perl development community...

Tour Resources

As the Tour de France rolls along, we're enjoying a few blogs that might be of interest as examples of event-targetted weblogs. First, the Race To The Tour is a Movable Type-powered site run by Subaru, offering coverage of contest...

Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch

One of the most fun new TypePad blogs we've seen is Popwatch, from Entertainment Weekly magazine, which offers an amusing overview of what's going on in pop culture today. In addition to the great writing, they've got a blogroll of...

Redesigning the Morning News

The Morning News has long been a great example of how simple blog publishing tools can be used to create an exceptional online magazine. In the announcement of their new redesign, the team behind the site offers some insight into...

Blogging the Family Guy

Though this one's been running for a little while, we couldn't skip mention of the Family Guy Blog that's accompanying the animated series' return to television. Though the show is already popular with bloggers, we're guessing the Movable Type-powered weblog...

EPIDEMIca

The variety and breadth of ideas that weblogs can cover continues to be amazing. Witness one of the latest efforts, EPIDEMIca, a weblog about infectious diseases. Powered by Movable Type, this site adopts a serious tone and a professional look...

Revenge of the Blog

A nice (and timely) example of how traditional print media can take advantage of blogs: As part of their entertainment section's coverage of the new Star Wars movie, the Washington Post has been keeping a blog called "Sith Sense". Jen...

Spamhuntress Wiki

Ann Elisabeth has created another resource for fighting blog spam, the Spamhuntress wiki. She's asking for community contributions to help document tools, techniques, and lessons in the fight against comment spammers. If you're interested in the topic, you'll want to...

ProNet Pastoral Project Published

Professional Network member Jedd Haas of EPS, Inc just let us know that the relaunch of the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy site has just gone live. In addition to being a clean and attractive use of Movable Type...

O'Reilly Radar Launches

O'Reilly Media has just launched a great new blog called O'Reilly Radar, where the popular publisher covers the latest trends that inform the publications and conferences that O'Reilly is known for. There's a lot of cool new features that have...

Bluefly's Flypaper Blog

Bluefly, the popular online clothing retailer, has just launched Flypaper, a cool new Movable Type-powered blog. Besides having great content, it's a good example of a Professional Network success story, as Cameron Barrett got the project lead through his membership...

Before and After

Jay Kerr's posted a quick overview of the Yorkminster Park Baptist Church site which JAK Media has redesigned over the past 10 months. It's a classic makeover, moving the old site to a new presentation that's valid XHTML and CSS....