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Attention Movable Type Developers

Attention Movable Type Developers and plugin creators and staff at SixApart. Are you all watching what is happening in the Blogsphere. MT is one of the most powerful blogging platforms available yet I sometimes see developers for other blogging applications kicking you in the groin with cool features. Will someone work with Dave Winer on this for MT.

Ten Blogging Hacks

I found this pretty interesting. Nice to find hacks that are popular with more than one kind of blog. There are also some others posted in the comments. I am going to explore some of them for my own. Welcome back Todd! [Micro Persuasion: Ten Blogging Hacks]

Blogs Defined

With Todd shopping for a new blog service, and anyone else, I decided to finish up a article I started a few weeks ago for GeekNewsCentral. Blogs Defined When I first heard the word "Blog" it sounded like something that was a waste of time. I could not seem to grasp what exactly a blog was, or what the point

Blogging while on vacation

I have had some friends in from Holland this month and to stay in contact with their friends back home they have set-up a blog. It is amazing how technology now allows us to share our vacation photos and memories in real time. It sure reduces the number of pictures one has to explain to friends and family. Please take

MovableType version 3.2 an trackbacks!

Well seems SixApart did a pretty good job in their trackback and comment spam implementation but now they need a way for us to run a cron job or something to kill the trackback entries from driving my database size thru the roof. In less than 24 hours the systems has about 8000 junk trackback entries that it has flagged

Google That Blog

Google, Inc., the search engine (and everything else) company has released a beta version of a blog search site that offers similar features to its most-popular web search engine. The new search engine scans blogs, the popular online journals that offer both professional journalists and citizen pundits simple access to online publication. Google Blog Search should give a bit of much-wanted visibility and authority to the burgeoning blogosphere.

More Weblog Search Sites joining the Party

I have not really been watching my raw log files for blog specific search engines, at least not until today when I found and article about a new blog that had not yet been discovered by the big search engines and was able to look at the traffic for a couple of days before getting slammed by the big boys.