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Mein.salzburg.com, a community site dedicated to life and leisure in the Salzburg area, has more than doubled its readership since creating their Movable Type blog. The service is managed by Salzburger Nachrichten, a respected daily newspaper read throughout Austria and is working toward being the premier address for all kinds of essential information for locals.Find out how Salzburger Nachrichten used Movable Type to increase their audience and create a dedicated new community here....

Six Apart EMEA is sending its very own Dhana Silva, Sales Manager of Spain and Latin America, on a 3 week-long  blog evangelism tour that will cover her trek (in stilettos, of course) through Venezuela, Columbia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile.With existing Spanish and South American clients like Hola, El Tiempo, El Pais, Banco Sabadell, El Clarin, Mobuzz TV, Mercurio and Microsiervos, Six Apart hopes to help spread blogging throughout this exciting region of the world. Among other things, Dhana will be sharing her insights on the growth of Web2.0 in...

Today we were notified of a great review of Movable Type 4.1 on Linux.com. The thorough write-up outlines the strengths of Movable Type, as well as some helpful hints. Recommended reading for anyone looking for a bias-free view of professional blogging options....

The Guardian's 50 Most Powerful Blogs In The World is back, featuring still more TypePad and Movable Type blogs than last time. According to the new shortlist, over 35% of the World's Most Powerful Blogs are powered by Movable Type or TypePad.Blogs powered by Movable Type:Huffington Post (#1)Boing Boing (#2)Kottke (#4)Talking Points Memo (#7)Beppe Grillo (#9)Gawker (#10)Treehugger (#13)Microsiervos (#14)Jezebel (#22)Gaping Void (#31)Chocolate & Zucchini (#38)Samizdata (#39)Blogs hosted by TypePad:Marbury (#17)Chez Pim (#18)Greek Tragedy (#26)Go Fug Yourself (#30)The Daily Dish (#40)Stylebubble (#48)...

Six Apart has always understood the possibilities in enterprise-level blogging (internal and external communications, easy publishing, data collection for R&D through direct client feedback, content management, creation of virtual communities and social networks, etc...). This month, we found out that we are not the only ones who see a proliferation of Web 2.0 tools in large companies.According to Global Enterprise Web 2.0 Market Forecast: 2007 To 2013, corporate spending in the Web 2.0 sector will hit $4.6 billion by 2013. The report, written by G. Oliver Young at Forrester Research,...

In its second year, the Festival de Romans is again in search of the web's brightest talent, to be celebrated in the picturesque town of Romans-sur-Isère on 18 - 20 April 2008.Any amateurs with their own site/blog/online presence can participate in one of 5 broad categories: Visual Arts (comics, photography, web and graphic design, illustration, painting etc); Video Arts (comedy, fiction, documentary); Music (pop, rock, rap, hip-hop, R&B, electronica); Literature (fiction, novels, erotica); or Blogs (biographical, food, beauty and fashion, tech, politics, travel). The contestants are judged by a...

Beppe's Inferno: A comedian's war on crooked politics tells the story of Beppe Grillo, one of the most visible bloggers on Movable Type. Mr. Grillo's story is a compelling one. The Italian comedian, known for his outspokenness regarding political corruption, started blogging at the advice of web consultants Casaleggio Associati when traditional media shunned him for his risqué routines.Il Blog di Beppe Grillo, now available in English, Italian and Japanese, gets thousands of comments per post and serves as an integral tool in Mr. Grillo's fight against government injustice....

Moleskine, the legendary stationery brand known for guarding the secrets of geniuses such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Hemingway and Chatwin, is bringing its annual five-city exhibition to Paris on 24 April.Detour: The Moleskine Notebook Experience has thus far showcased the notebooks of contemporary artists in London and New York (in 2006 and 2007, respectively) and features the work of many a modern luminary including designers Christian Lacroix, Ron Arad and Yves Béhar; novelist and art critc Simon Njami; and childrens' book author Maira Kalman.For more information on Detour, or...

Previously, we mentioned a very interesting political blog written by German public-access channel ZDF. Now they have done it again: Real Time Players, a videoblog featuring young people in Germany and Israel sharing their world view and snippets from their day-to-day existence. Because the videos are typically taped by friends on the interviewee's home turf, the fascinating insights (as seen in "What do you think of when you hear the word Germany?" and "What is typically German?" episodes) are sometimes shocking but always refreshingly frank.Real Time Players is a...

The Observer, Sunday publication of sister newspaper The Guardian, announced its picks for The World's 50 Most Powerful Blogs -- and guess what?Six of the Top 10 (that's 60%!) blogs in the world are powered by Movable Type.We have always known that our bloggers are our greatest asset but it's gratifying when the rest of the world notices it too. Among the best of the best were The Huffington Post (#1), Boing Boing (#2), Kottke (#4), Talking Points Memo (#7), Beppe Grillo (#9) and Gawker (#10). In addition, numbers 11...