October 2008 Archives

"When you don't know where else to invest, you invest in yourself."Six Apart CEO Chris Alden was interviewed by Portfolio.com's Tech Observer on how the economic crisis will affect the blogging industry....

This month, Movable Type is celebrating its 7th year of powering some of the best sites across the Internet (think Boing Boing, Beppe Grillo, Design Observer, Gothamist, Huffington Post and scores of others). The team behind Movable Type thanks MT users around the globe for their loyal support and looks forward to more of the innovations that have made Movable Type a pioneer in its field....

Where blogging is concerned, the question most often heard among the uninitiated is: what for? Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic shares his thoughts on this very subject in Why I Blog, a comprehensive look at the medium from a historical and sociological perspective.Mr Sullivan blogs regularly on the TypePad-powered Daily Dish as well as elsewhere on the Movable Type-powered Atlantic....

Britney Spears is back, better than ever... and on Movable Type. Check back regularly - Britney promises to update her blog with "videos, pictures and other cool stuff"....

La Presse Quotidienne Régionale, a consortium comprised of French newspaper publishers, has turned to Movable Type to create an open forum in which to discuss the hot topics circulating in the industry today. Representing 59 titles and 20,000 employees across France, the PQR is the nation's largest and most important association of daily newspaper publishers.Readers are invited to share their views on the current state of the newspaper industry, the effects of the Internet on the traditional press and their vision of what will become of daily publications in the...

Contre-feux, created by Hi-Media Publishing, is a French news site with a strong community focus. Project Manager Simon Loubris lays out the various technical strengths that were the deciding factors in Hi-Media's deployment of Movable Type:"A scalable CMS that can host a vibrant community with the capacity to manage a wide range of subtle settings for each individual member - and of course, inexpensive and quick to implement."To read more about Contre-feux's usage of Movable Type, download the case study here....