Here is the official releases by Six Apart: read six apart log post
This info of a merger is definately a little stunning. I don’t exactly know if it is true by any means. If any of you don’t know, Six Apart is the company behind the Movable Type system and TypePad. I have not used TypePad, yet I am using Movable Type over at my portoflio site, constructds.com. LiveJournal is one of the larger free weblog projects much like Blogger or xanga or any of the other many free weblog services out there.
Back to my topic, the article is over at om malik on broadband. Check it out, it has a little bit of information in it. Here is another article on eweek.com
By the way, here are some of my free weblog accounts. They are all hardly ever updated, sorry!
dan.adion44.com powered by Blogger
photodan.blogspot.com powered by Blooger
livejournal.com/users/facture powered by livejournal
I also have a few other random free accounts spread all over the place just testing things out. From the get go of my blogging, I have installed my own system on my own web host that I pay for. I started with pMachine and now I am using WordPress. I don’t think I will ever leave WordPress mainly because I have become so used to it. It has it’s limitations right now compared to Movable Type, yet it is getting better and better everyday. One thing that I really don’t like about Movable Type is that you have to “rebuild” your site in order to make changes and add posts and things. It’s hard to explain, I guess you would just have to use it to know.(Anil Dash Let me know in the comments that I don’t have to rebuild the site everytime. I really need to learn more now. Thanks Anil!)
Wow, this was going to be a short post, yet it has now turned into a sort of my thoughts on weblog systems. What can I say, they are pretty cool. Maybe I’ll do a rundown of the main weblog systems that are out there sometime.
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January 5th, 2005 at 1:13 am
Just so you know, Movable Type fully supports dynamic pages, and doesn’t require you to rebuild at all if you don’t want to. Plus, you can use the Smarty templating language with the dynamic PHP pages.
January 5th, 2005 at 2:55 am
Thankyou Anil. I feel honored that you visited my little weblog here. I will look into Smarty now for my other site running MT 2.6.