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MovableType gets performance boost

The folks over at SixApart have been looking at the performance of MovableType and have some recomendations for those of you that upgrade to the latest version 3.34. Those that have their own servers or that are on hosting accounts can install FastCGI to get as much as a 15x increase in performance in their existing installations. I will be

MovableType Tags Feature has no External Editor Support!

If you look at the bottom of this post you will see at section on the entry that says Tags: yet there are no entries in the Tags section. You may scratch your head and ask why. Well it is quite simple I am writing this post with an external editor and although the application has the ability to add its own tags listing it does not support MovableTypes “Tag” feature.

Podpress Plugin for WordPress causing Havoc with iTunes

When I set my mom's blog up at CherieCast.com I used the standard Wordpress install for a few days without any plugins. I was able to get her RSS feed setup and once her first podcast was published I submitted the listing to iTunes. The listing came up on iTunes within 24 hours, and we were smooth sailing. About a

State of the Blogsphere update is online!

Some very interesting trends in the Blog space, as David Sifry releases his now famous report on the State of the Blogsphere. What I find really disturbing is the ongoing creation of Splogs by 100’s of thousands that are cluttering up the Web. With all of the free blogging services, it is almost impossible to stop the activity. Let’s just

Six Apart Introduces TypePad Mobile Client for Blogging

That's right, when you are sitting in traffic, you can blog, when you are sitting in the doctors office, you can blog. Add pictures, take it anywhere. I realize that other blogging services already have mobile blogging where you can text your messages and or pictures to your blogs, but I think this will be the first of many that

Launching products with Bloggers versus PR firms!

It comes as no surprise to me that companies are finally figuring out that blogs are very powerful information vehicles when it comes to product launches. By giving a new product to a bloggers and allowing them to test the products, then allowing them to provide feedback to the company and then blogging about the product is resulting in very