Results tagged “Press Mentions”
2005 Black Weblog Awards winners announced
The 2005 Black Weblog Awards has just posted its list of winners, with Blog of the Year going to Daily Views, Pop Culture, Rants and News and the achievement award going to George Kelly of All About George and Negrophile,...
TechWeb's Software Hall of Fame
A recent accolade we've been honored to receive was seeing Movable Type named to TechWeb's Software Hall of Fame. Mike Elgan says, "Movable Type was also one of the first Weblog software packages to take the concept of content management...
EContent Reviews TypePad
Though we don't link to every review of our products, sometimes we like to pass along ones that are especially in-depth or insightful. The latest is EContent magazine's review of TypePad. The reviewer's summary: TypePad is a terrific tool to...
InfoWorld review of Movable Type
InfoWorld has just published a review of Movable Type 3.15, with the ultimate conclusion that "Overall, Movable Type delivers a solid blogging experience." There's a useful overview of the platform's features, along with some legitimate points about what needs improvement,...
Focus on the Tennessee blogging community
Thanks to a heads-up from Brittney, we noticed a segment that WKRN TV in Nashville, Tennessee ran about the active and growing blogging community in their hometown this week. As the video of the segment (Windows Media stream) shows, each...
LA Times on Six Apart's story
The Los Angeles Times has run a brief look back at where Six Apart came from, including a bit of history about Ben and Mena Trott, as well as some hints as to what they see next for us and...
The Blog Economy
EContent magazine's published a fairly thorough overview of blogging business models entitled IN Search of the Blog Economy. There's a big focus on advertising, but little talk of the potential of subscriptions to blog content, as is possible with plugins...
Shutterbug on Photoblogs
Shutterbug, one of the most popular magazines for photographers, has just published a piece entitled "How Photographers Are Making The Internet Work For Them". Covering some of the basics of photoblogging, and providing links to a few prominent sites, it's...
Gizmodo scores an interview with Gates
Amongst all the other announcements of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, Gizmodo scores a coup by being the first blog to interview Bill Gates. Like all the Gawker blogs, Gizmodo's powered by Movable Type, so we're especially proud of the...
On the cover of Fortune
In a week of milestones for both our company and the whole weblog medium, we'd be remiss if we didn't mention one of the most remarkable: Bloggers made the cover of Fortune magazine. Though it sounds like a lyric to...
SiliconBeat Six Apart Interview
There's been lots of press coverage of our acquisition of LiveJournal, but one of the most interesting is the SiliconBeat interview with Mena and Barak. Silicon Beat is the Movable Type-powered weblog covering tech news for the San Jose Mercury...
BBC on Getting Dooced
Perhaps it's time to start a "Blogger Gets Fired" story-of-the-week award. This time, it's the BBC, talking about the Looming pitfalls of work blogs. There's the usual mention of high-profile cases of people getting fired, but little talk of people...
Pew on the State of Blogging
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a new report on the state of blogging, with 8 million adults saying that they have created blogs. (No numbers are listed for teens.) There's a wealth of useful statistics...
Revisiting comment spam
With the release of Movable Type 3.14, a lot of people are revisiting the topic of comment spam and offering their opinions. I talked to eWeek's Matt Hicks for their story Movable Type Fixing Bug as Spam Clogs Blogs, and...
Your Blog or Mine?
Another week, another blog story in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. This week's "Your Blog or Mine?" offers the dubious assertion that "[s]ex is the favorite topic for online journals" but does a good job of covering the boundaries...
Time loves blogs
Time's Person of the Year issue has a pair of stories on blogs this year. The first, 10 Things We Learned About Blogs, is viewable online and offers a list of popular blogs and the lessons they've offered in 2004....
SF Business Times on Six Apart
MSNBC's picked up a San Francisco Business Times piece talking about our growth here at Six Apart, as well as our impending move from San Mateo to San Francisco. One highlight is the retelling of the company's history: Six Apart,...
The Year in Ideas
Also from the New York Times Magazine's Year in Ideas issue, The Blogo Ad. Innovative advertisers are using the weblog medium to connect with people used to the straight talk of bloggers: From a marketing perspective, blogs make perfect sense....
Books from Bloggers
The New York Times covers the increasing trend of great writers who have blogs being signed to book contracts, with a notable mention of Kate Lee of ICM: All this has begun to stimulate even more interest among editors and...
MarketWatch on TypePad gifts
Bambi Francisco of CBS MarketWatch (who has her own TypePad site) mentioned the following in her list of holiday gift suggestions: Speaking of the tech enthusiast, many people are getting into blogging. Blog just entered the Merriam-Webster dictionary this year....
