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Redesigning Movable Type's Comment Management Screen?

In a project I have been working on I have had the need to revisit an old plugin of mine: the Contact Form plugin. When designing the inquiry management screen the plugin I thought it would be a nice user...
.tiff: one of my favorite bloggers

One of my favorite bloggers of late is an old friend and colleague from Six Apart, Tiffany Chow. Each month she composes a collage/calendar of self-portraits capturing as succinctly as one can her state of mind for each day. I...
Meet Melody

People who know me, know that I love Movable Type. In fact I have devoted much of the last five years to the product and its community. Therefore it gives me great pride and much relief to be a part...
An idea for URL shortners: content type hinting

Regardless of how you feel about URL shortening services they have become an essential component of the Internet today. Services like Twitter make them all but a necessity so that character starved bloggers can squeeze as much copy into a...
A Photo Gallery Theme for Movable Type that works.

I am the maintainer of the Photo Gallery plugin for Movable Type. It originally started with me creating a plugin to simply automate the installation of Doug Bowman's amazing photo gallery templates for Movable Type and slowly evolved from there....
Easy, easy, easy contact forms for any web site.

One project that I had always hoped to find time to work on while at Six Apart was a plugin that provided Movable Type bloggers with a capable and easy to use contact form solution for their web site or...
Movable Type System Architectures

Movable Type is renown in operations circles for a number of its "abilities," mainly its scalability, availability and reliability. The larger your site gets however, and the more readers you have creating content for you in the form of comments...
More Publish Queue Manager Enhancements

Publish Queue Manager was received well by the community and as a result, I got a lot of bug reports and feature requests for this little plugin. So I spent some time today working on an update that includes: a...
"As long as themes are selling, why make them free?"

The Revolution Theme will begin to transcend the blogging platform it was originally designed for, and Brian as a designer will gain greater visibility in a market he has yet to tap. In a post on wordpress wank, one of...
Introducing Super Page for Movable Type

Following the release of Movable Type 4.2 I wanted to take some time to focus some concerted energy upon an area of Movable Type that needed a great deal of love: documentation. In about a week I had managed to...
@WordCamp

Today I am happy to be at WordCamp, a conference for WordPress users and devotees. Some may find it curious that I am here, being such an ardent Movable Type user, but truth be told this is not about platform...
The #1 Matt: The Quintessential Blogger

It must be a great source of pride to have your web site surface as the number one search result on Google when you search for just your singular first name. Even with a relatively unique name like "Byrne" I...
Putting the Universal Template Set to Work

One of the primary design goals for the Universal Template Set released in Movable Type 4.1, was to create a template set that was not only compelling on its own, but also something that could be easily configured and modified...
A look at Obama's IT Strategy

From ZDNet, A look at Obama's IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge Obama kept his IT strategy simple. The campaign didn't customize heavily and it didn't look for bleeding edge technology. It used the same stuff the...
Introducing Yahoo! OpenID for Movable Type

Today I am happy to announce the availability of the first Movable Type plugin to make use of Movable Type 4.2's built in support for OpenID 2.0. The Yahoo! OpenID plugin for Movable Type allows users to provide Yahoo! users...
@Make: Introducing AutoLink for Movable Type 4

Make is brand I adore because it teaches us in its many ways that the best way to understand something is to take it apart, and in some cases to build something else in its place. As a hacker,...
Automagic URL redirection and SEO maximization in Movable Type

Clean Sweep now allows me to change my URL structure without worrying about how Google might penalize me. Clean Sweep is a plugin I released in conjunction with Movable Type 4.0 to help users keep URLs and permalinks valid on...
Creating plugins in Movable Type, with NO PERL REQUIRED

Not to long ago I began work on a very cool new theme, or Template Set, for Movable Type. I had built out all the templates and nearly completed all of my work without having to write a single line...
Keeping a watch over customers using Twitter, and what it really means to be "open"

Not too long ago I stumbled upon a user who was having problems with Movable Type who I later helped by working directly with his hosting provider. A couple days later he asked if I would like to do an...
Podcasting for Movable Type just got better

Podcasting support for Movable Type just got better. In this most recent release of the Podcasting plugin for Movable Type, iTunes support has been rounded making it easier than ever before to get your podcast listed and listed properly within...
Promote This! Plugin updated

Following the request of a user I have updated the Promote This plugin for Movable Type, the plugin similar to the Socialize plugin for WordPress to include support for Technorati and Ma.gnolia. Thanks for the suggestion cognitive dissident!...
Hemingway for Movable Type 4

Following quickly on the heels of Cutline and 2813, I am happy to announce the availability of the popular Hemingway theme for Movable Type 4 users. For this theme however I can take no credit - I am merely a...
More Photo Gallery Enhancements

Last week I began the long overdue process of upgrading the Photo Gallery plugin to work with Movable Type 4.1. A week later I have made a number of improvements and have gotten the plugin to a point where...
Movable Love

Aaron Bailey just launched a beautiful new site devoted to all of the amazing blogs powered by Movable Type. It is called Movable Love and will serve not only as an index of blogs powered by MT, but will specifically...
Stop Design Photo Gallery Plugin for Movable Type 4.1

In today's Movable Type hackathon I chose to focus on a Movable Type plugin of mine that has been neglected quite far too much since the release of MT4: the Photo Gallery plugin. I held off primarily because I knew...
Movable Type is whatever you want it to be

What has always drawn me to Movable Type is its flexibility. Most of the time we, that is Six Apart: my employer and creator of Movable Type, talk and think about MT's flexibility in terms of the web sites it...
Implementing Ping Back for Movable Type

Years ago Ben Trott introduced one of the first seminal technologies and protocols that would shape the very nature of blogging and our industry today. Subsequently, WordPress released an alternate Link Back protocol, the umbrella term to refer to all...
Action Streaming: Blogging evolved

When I started blogging 5 years ago I had a vision that majordojo would be the place where I would collect and share those things that I find online that interest and inspire me. It would be a soap box...
Technorati's totally broken user experience

I have been using Technorati for a long time as many of my friends do to track incoming links to majordojo. But recently I have grown increasingly frustrated with their service - so much so that I am a breath...
"Blogging is Dead; Its Social Media Now"

CMSWire recently published a video/interview with me about Movable Type 4, the Movable Type Community Solution and MTOS and the future of blogging and the future of products at Six Apart and... no that's it. During a recent visit to...
Introducing a Podcasting Plugin for Movable Type

So yesterday was a day just like any other day, except that I had the pleasure of listening to a Movable Type user rant about our claimed, but "lacking" support for podcasting. Man, it hurts hearing such a passionate user...
YouTube and Flickr support comes to Media Manager

In yesterday's hackathon I took another whack at Media Manager 2.0 adding support for two of the web's most popular media sharing services, Flickr and YouTube. I have yet to update the documentation for these new services, so here are...
To Niall: Please make more podcasts like this

At first when I heard Niall Kennedy introduce his 19 year old sister as the person he would be interviewing in his latest podcast I thought he must be getting desperate. In the past he typically interviews an Internet professional...
Demonstration of Amazon and Movable Type Integration

Media Manager is still in beta for Movable Type 4.0, but it is still relatively stable and in use by a number of different users across the web. To help demonstrate how seamlessly Movable Type can integrate with a third...
A presentation on Online Communities

Today will be third year I have had the privilege of speaking to students of the Haas Business School of Berkeley about various topics relating to Product Management. In the past I have spoken about Agile Product Development as well...
Introducing Media Manager 2.0 Beta 1

Media Manager has been a hobby of mine ever since I first started working for SIx Apart; from my first release of BookQueueToo, which was an expanded version of BookQueue, to a nearly completely rewritten Media Manager for Movable Type...
Introducing Clean Sweep for Movable Type 4

When I upgraded this blog to Movable Type 4.0 I wanted more then anything to completely start fresh. To rethink my URL structure, the use of hyphens vs. underscores in my file names and so on and so forth, but...
Movable Type 4.0: The Ultimate Peace Maker

Movable Type 4.0 is most developer-friendly release of the Movable Type platform to date. We have devoted countless hours creating some of the best developer documentation Six Apart has ever produced, and even harder trying to build into Movable Type...
It's a Whole New World: Movable Type 4.0 Launches

Earlier tonight we released Movable Type 4.0. It is hard to describe the feelings I have for this release, perhaps because it is 2:30am and I still am online reading the reviews coming out; but most likely because this is...
Where is Byrne blogging now?

I typically wouldn't feel it necessary to post excuses as to why I am not blogging on majordojo, but what I have been consumed by for the last two months warrants some attention here, as it is near and dear...
Single Sign On with Movable Type

Last week I was in New York participating in a Movable Type Hackathon and Blogging Summit I helped to organize. While I wasn't planning on presenting at the summit, fate had another opinion on the matter. In the end I...
My Hackathon Hacks

Last week I went on a whirlwind trip to New York. I was there attending and presenting at a Blogging Summit I helped organize at the Affinia Hotel in midtown Manhattan. It was a two day event for developers and...
One step closer to a blog HTML standard

As a long time advocate for a blog HTML standard, it is exciting to see that Drupal has adopted support for the Six Apart HTML standard that I work really hard to get as much of Six Apart to adopt...
Widget podcast with Niall

Last week Niall Kennedy asked if I would sit down with him and record a podcast about Widgets and Six Apart. Not wanting to miss an opportunity to hear myself talk, much less have it recorded so that I could...
The Crusade Against Nofollow

I could not believe my eyes when I began reading this week of a growing desire to kill nofollow. The premise behind the argument is simple: nofollow doesn’t work. The truth is that is does work. It just didn’t succeed...
How to increase advertising revenue with Movable Type

Every once in a while a plugin is created for Movable Type that makes you wonder, “why hasn’t anyone created this until now?” And the most recent plugin that I have installed on majordojo is no exception. Andy Yako-Mink, inspired...
The many faces of majordojo

I am not sure why I felt the need to redesign my blog again. But I did. In realizing that this is at least the third re-design for majordojo in a year, I was curious to look back even further...
Movable Type Plugin Survey Results

Not to long ago I posted about a survey I conducted at Six Apart to better understand what plugins people use most often. The results of this survey will be used to help shape the next major version of Movable...
Atom Publishing Protocol's 12th Draft

The Atom Working Group, that I once participated in much more heavily, just recently published the Atom Publishing Protocol Specification draft 12. This may very well be the draft that goes to "last call" which would officially start the process...
Five Things

I think I may very well be the last person at my job who has not been tagged and asked to complete the "5 Things" blogging meme. And I work for a blogging company! Furthermore, you would think that once...
Is your Movable Type software Plugin Manager enabled?

Recently I relaunched Plugin Manager's website. The new website has an awesome new design, compliments of Jesse, and perhaps most important to my users, it also has completely revised and updated documentation. The relaunch inspired a lot of people to...
Me for the last 30 days
Random thoughts on open source

I open source most of the software I create on shear principle. But I don't open source everything. That is because a small part of me knows that a real potential exists for my decision to open source something may...
Battlestar Galactica Podcast Roundup

I have been holding off subscribing to the high recommended Battlestar Galactica podcast by Ron Moore for sometime, primarily because I think I would feel kinda stupid watching television and listening to my iPod at the same time. Stupid excuse...
Welcome to my dark corner

I am always on the look out for interesting commentary about the company I work for, which is probably why I find myself drawn to The Blog Herald like a moth to the flame. I keep hoping that one day...
Gravatar Plugin for Movable Type

Gravatar is a userpic service that allows commenters to display avatars or userpics next to the comments they leave on a blog. The original Gravatar plugin for Movable Type was written by Tom Werner, the creator of Gravatar. But he...
Less blogging, more programming

Earlier this week I had the opportunity at the Movable Type Hackathon to dust off some of my "old" plugins and start working on them again. The plugin I chose to work on? Why Plugin Manager of course. It gives...
TypePad Bookstore

You know your company is getting big when it is fun to surf your own website because you know you will find something new and interesting. There was a time when every employee knew what every other employee at Six...
Six Apart Podcast

Earlier this week I talked about how I have been "experimenting" with podcasting. I wrote a little how to on the subject and introduced people to the Professional Network Podcast I produced a couple of weeks ago. Today I sat...
How to make a podcast

Working at Six Apart I take for granted how connected (or unconnected for that matter) people in the world are. I work in an office which often gives me the feeling that I am living in some William Gibson novel...
Welcome to WalkerWatch

Two months ago I learned that two of my most favorite people, and two people that for a long time have been advocates and leaders in our neighborhood and block, would be moving. Not far, but far enough. They approached...
My poor little blog

When I first heard of NaBlogWriMo I immediately felt compelled to participate… out of a sense of guilt. A guilt stemming from a feeling that “I never blog anymore.” What’s interesting to me is why I felt that in the...
Blog or Die!

My wife recently told me that she intended to join the NaBloWriMo! initiative to help kick start her blogging again. And because I wouldn't want her to overextend herself all alone, I plan to join her in this foolish but...
YouTube helps to screw the little guy

A couple of days ago a friend of mine released a film they had literally been working on for years. It is only 3 minutes long, but as soon as you watch it you will know realize the magnitude...
WordPress mulls standardizing their HTML

I have believed for quite sometime that the blogging industry would benefit a great deal from standardizing its HTML in some way. I mean seriously - look at the blogs out there, almost all of them utilize one of just...
Am I the only one who doesn't think this is evil?

As seen on Lifehacker....
Microlabels

I remember spending almost an entire evening speaking with Marc Canter and a few of his microformat evangelists at the Syndicate Conference last December about “structured blogging” and “microformats” and not once did anyone ever correct my misunderstanding about it...
Make your Atom feeds pretty!

I have always been impressed with the ingenuity behind FeedBurner’s rendering of “burned feeds.” Using a simple XSL stylesheet, Feedburner instructs browsers to render unintelligible XML feeds into a human-readable HTML format. The tech is cool enough and easy enough...
Overloading atom:category

Long on my list of things to do is to write an Atom extension to define privacy, security and visibility permissions associated with a entry. Why? Because I am looking for a logical way to represent in LiveJournal via the...
Flickr Leaves Beta Phase

Flickr exits the beta phase and enters the “Gamma” phase. I have always appreciated Flickr’s sense of humor, but this? “Gamma” to me implies finality and completeness, which we all know isn’t true. No matter - it still made me...
Standardizing the Atom Thread Extension

I have been an advocate for the Atom Feed Thread extension for quite sometime, and am an active developer of it. Within Six Apart I have helped deploy the extension across over 1 million Friendster blogs, I have developed my...
Announcing Feed Manager for Movable Type

In my work with the Atom Working Group, which I admit, has been scant recently, I have become really impressed with the number of Atom Extensions being defined and developed by the community - a testament to Atom’s extensibility. One...
Releasing Photo Gallery: a Movable Type Plugin

I have been taking a lot of photos lately and have had to upload them for friends and family to see. I have been using a plugin for Movable Type that I wrote a while ago and have been learning...
Personalize Your Comments

The onslaught of comments I received when I posted about Harper made me realize how few people have their own personal photo that can be displayed along side their comments on majordojo and any other blog that uses the Gravatar...
Google Calendar and Atom

Google today launched Google Calendar. I am sure plenty of people will blog about it, so I won’t bother with a review of all its Ajaxy-goodness. What I thought was interesting, however, is that Google Calendar does not support RSS....
Why we need a "design standard"

Republished from The Style Contest - "The general concept behind standards is to provide predictable building blocks for others to build with so that the need for re-invention is minimized, to lower the costs of creation and innovation, and to reap the benefits of shared infrastructure."
Coincidence? I think not.

This week WordPress.com announced WordPress Widgets enabled through a “Sidebar Editor.” I suppose imitation is the best form of flattery, but naturally WordPress would never cop to imitating anything. Although, technically I copied TypePad, so I am not one to...
A new logo for Atom?

I have no idea what inspired Mena, but she took it upon herself to design a new logo for the Atom protocol and syndication format, and it’s hot. Who knows if it will be adopted by the Atom community, but...
The Irony of TypePad's Performance

Not too long ago TypePad lost a race with trying to move to a new data center because our old data center had literally run out of power. We had tons of rack space, just no juice. Nada. Nothing. It...
Open ID Enabled

Back when I did my last redesign of this site I incorporated a new method of comment authentication, a technique I use to help me combat comment spam. For the longest time I relied exclusively upon TypeKey to provide this...
Implementing James Snell's Atom Thread Extension

James Snell authored an Atom extension that provides a way of syndicating not only a weblog’s posts, but all of the comments belonging to a weblog as well. The extension is called the Feed Thread Extension and has been implemented...
A new Web 2.0 term is coined: "JSS"

I just got invited to join Newsvine’s private beta. I haven’t forumulated an opinion about the product yet as I have only seeded it with one story so far, but I did start to dig into how one could integrate...
Photo Gallery - Sidebar Plugin Mashup -- Woot!

Ok, I might be abusing the term “mashup,” but I spent the other night trying to create a sidebar widget to use with the Sidebar Manager Plugin for the photo galleries I have stored in the Photo Gallery Plugin. What...
Screw it, I will release the Photo Gallery Plugin too

It has been a busy week. A very busy week. I released the Movable Type Sidebar Manager plugin only 24 hours ago, and I have already received a ton of interest it by users and developers alike. The release of...
Introducing a Sidebar Manager for Movable Type

Let me say Happy Holidays to the Movable Type user community. Thank you for helping to create one of the best and more extensible blogging platforms today. As a special holiday gift to the Movable Type users, I have just...
The challenges with structured blogging

One will have to look pretty hard to find someone to disagree with the concept of structured blogging. An era dominated by Web services and APIs has taught us all that making your content open and accessible to everyone, including...
RFC 4287

For the Web services and XML protocol junkies in the crowd... the Atom Syndication format is finally and officially a standard....
Swivel in the press

It is interesting, ZDNet has released two articles in the past day about Swivel. One of them showed up on my Technorati Radar. The other article made its way to me via a friend. It is good to see Swivel...
What just one little link can do...

A lot of press is given to how blogging can be used by businesses, but most people focus on how blogging helps companies communicate with customers. But blogging is a two way street. Blogging is just an effective tool to...
Movable Type Mongers Presentation

Tuesday I had the pleasure of speaking with the San Francisco Perl Users Group, a.k.a. "San Francisco Perl Mongers." In all honesty, it was the first time I spoke about Movable Type, and I wish I had it to do...
Swivel this, Swivel that

About a year and ago I left a company called Grand Central to go on a long delayed honeymoon, and to eventually join Six Apart. I will be perfectly honest, when I left Grand Central, much of the hope I...
77% of people find blogs useful for shopping

I found an interesting article about a study of where consumers find information about the products they buy. Respondents said they trusted blogs because they were written by real people and based on actual experiences. The survey suggests that blogs...
Announcing MTAmazon32

This isn't the first place I have announced MTAmazon32, but it is the first to announce its new dedicated blog! MTAmazon32 is a re-packaging of MTAmazon providing a more integrated experience with the Movable Type publishing platform. It integrates with...
Media Manager Beta Released!

Some of you may have seen my earlier post announcing a new MovableType plug-in based upon the latest version of MT: 3.2. Well, Media Manager's first beta is out. To be truthful, I hate calling it a "beta" though....
Goodbye BookQueueToo, Hello MediaManager

It has been exciting seeing my friends and collegues pull together what promises to be a great product and tremendous improvement to the MovableType platform. The MovableType product has matured so much in the eight months (has it really...
Best Trackback Spam Fighter Ever

I have the pleasure of working with Brad at Six Apart and thus had the fortune of being able to preview Spam Lookup. Ever since I installed it, my trackback spam has all but ceased. And coupled with MT-Blacklist, this...
See what happens when you stop reading?

So I stopped having time for reading. Its sucks. But it is the truth. As a result I have not used BookQueueToo in a while. Then today I found myself using it for the first time since January and right...
Thank god for rel="nofollow"!

Thank god for rel="nofollow" - its pundits were: Spot. On. I never get comment and trackback spam anymore. The game is totally different....
The beauty of open source

So I was "de-spamming" my trackback pings today and I ran across a gentleman who had installed BookQueueToo, but did not feel that it met his requirements, so he did what I wish more people would do: he started to...
BookQueueToo 1.14 Released

A quick note to let users of the BookQueueToo plug-in that BookQueueToo 1.14 has been released. This fixes a number of bugs that resulted from the obscure process of testing. Imagine that? Testing! Who knew. It is a follow up...
As if bloggers didn't have a bad enough stigma

Ok, I am already in a bad mood, but my reticulating activation system was triggered by the word "blog" out of the corner of my eye while surfing news sites, and I clicked through. As if bloggers didn't have a...
What is a blog?

If you seriously want to know, see how I answered that question for my dad. If you already know, or you think the fact that I am answering this question on a blog is a tad stupid and/or ironic, then...
BookQueueToo 1.1 Released

Aside from a whole lot of eating this Thanksgiving day weekend, I dedicated a lot of time to BookQueueToo and happy to announce the release of BookQueueToo 1.1. This represents a major enhancement to the BookQueueToo 1.0x series, the biggest...
Flattery will get you everywhere...

Holy moly. I released BookQueueToo last week and I never expected it to be so popular. Not that I had so many people download it that my server crashed or anything, but I had more people email me about this...
Introducing QuickLink

QuickLink is a plugin for MovableType which allows users to manage a set of words for which they would like links automatically generated. Build your own QuickLink rules to link to commonly referred to websites, blogs, terms, or anything...
Introducing BookQueueToo!

Long on my "to do" list has been to make available the many changes I incorporated into a very handy MovableType plugin called BookQueue. Many moons ago I submitted by code changes to the author, but the changes were...
Who is linking to whom?

I must admit, I have been really getting into blogging technology recently - a trend which will make a lot more sense to the few people who read my blog (is anyone listening?) in the next couple of weeks. But...
An emerging blog Lexography

After seeing Arin's post on "bloggles" one must wonder if a new lexicon is evolving from blog culture. While the post itself may be slightly tongue in cheek, surely she is touching upon something here......

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Recent Entries in Blogging

Redesigning Movable Type's Comment Management Screen?

In a project I have been working on I have had the need to revisit an old plugin of mine: the Contact Form plugin. When designing the inquiry management screen the plugin I thought it would be a nice user...

.tiff: one of my favorite bloggers

One of my favorite bloggers of late is an old friend and colleague from Six Apart, Tiffany Chow. Each month she composes a collage/calendar of self-portraits capturing as succinctly as one can her state of mind for each day. I...

Meet Melody

People who know me, know that I love Movable Type. In fact I have devoted much of the last five years to the product and its community. Therefore it gives me great pride and much relief to be a part...

An idea for URL shortners: content type hinting

Regardless of how you feel about URL shortening services they have become an essential component of the Internet today. Services like Twitter make them all but a necessity so that character starved bloggers can squeeze as much copy into a...

A Photo Gallery Theme for Movable Type that works.

I am the maintainer of the Photo Gallery plugin for Movable Type. It originally started with me creating a plugin to simply automate the installation of Doug Bowman's amazing photo gallery templates for Movable Type and slowly evolved from there....

Easy, easy, easy contact forms for any web site.

One project that I had always hoped to find time to work on while at Six Apart was a plugin that provided Movable Type bloggers with a capable and easy to use contact form solution for their web site or...

Movable Type System Architectures

Movable Type is renown in operations circles for a number of its "abilities," mainly its scalability, availability and reliability. The larger your site gets however, and the more readers you have creating content for you in the form of comments...

More Publish Queue Manager Enhancements

Publish Queue Manager was received well by the community and as a result, I got a lot of bug reports and feature requests for this little plugin. So I spent some time today working on an update that includes: a...

"As long as themes are selling, why make them free?"

The Revolution Theme will begin to transcend the blogging platform it was originally designed for, and Brian as a designer will gain greater visibility in a market he has yet to tap. In a post on wordpress wank, one of...

Introducing Super Page for Movable Type

Following the release of Movable Type 4.2 I wanted to take some time to focus some concerted energy upon an area of Movable Type that needed a great deal of love: documentation. In about a week I had managed to...

@WordCamp

Today I am happy to be at WordCamp, a conference for WordPress users and devotees. Some may find it curious that I am here, being such an ardent Movable Type user, but truth be told this is not about platform...

The #1 Matt: The Quintessential Blogger

It must be a great source of pride to have your web site surface as the number one search result on Google when you search for just your singular first name. Even with a relatively unique name like "Byrne" I...

Putting the Universal Template Set to Work

One of the primary design goals for the Universal Template Set released in Movable Type 4.1, was to create a template set that was not only compelling on its own, but also something that could be easily configured and modified...

A look at Obama's IT Strategy

From ZDNet, A look at Obama's IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge Obama kept his IT strategy simple. The campaign didn't customize heavily and it didn't look for bleeding edge technology. It used the same stuff the...

Introducing Yahoo! OpenID for Movable Type

Today I am happy to announce the availability of the first Movable Type plugin to make use of Movable Type 4.2's built in support for OpenID 2.0. The Yahoo! OpenID plugin for Movable Type allows users to provide Yahoo! users...

@Make: Introducing AutoLink for Movable Type 4

Make is brand I adore because it teaches us in its many ways that the best way to understand something is to take it apart, and in some cases to build something else in its place. As a hacker,...

Automagic URL redirection and SEO maximization in Movable Type

Clean Sweep now allows me to change my URL structure without worrying about how Google might penalize me. Clean Sweep is a plugin I released in conjunction with Movable Type 4.0 to help users keep URLs and permalinks valid on...

Creating plugins in Movable Type, with NO PERL REQUIRED

Not to long ago I began work on a very cool new theme, or Template Set, for Movable Type. I had built out all the templates and nearly completed all of my work without having to write a single line...

Keeping a watch over customers using Twitter, and what it really means to be "open"

Not too long ago I stumbled upon a user who was having problems with Movable Type who I later helped by working directly with his hosting provider. A couple days later he asked if I would like to do an...

Podcasting for Movable Type just got better

Podcasting support for Movable Type just got better. In this most recent release of the Podcasting plugin for Movable Type, iTunes support has been rounded making it easier than ever before to get your podcast listed and listed properly within...

Promote This! Plugin updated

Following the request of a user I have updated the Promote This plugin for Movable Type, the plugin similar to the Socialize plugin for WordPress to include support for Technorati and Ma.gnolia. Thanks for the suggestion cognitive dissident!...

Hemingway for Movable Type 4

Following quickly on the heels of Cutline and 2813, I am happy to announce the availability of the popular Hemingway theme for Movable Type 4 users. For this theme however I can take no credit - I am merely a...

More Photo Gallery Enhancements

Last week I began the long overdue process of upgrading the Photo Gallery plugin to work with Movable Type 4.1. A week later I have made a number of improvements and have gotten the plugin to a point where...

Movable Love

Aaron Bailey just launched a beautiful new site devoted to all of the amazing blogs powered by Movable Type. It is called Movable Love and will serve not only as an index of blogs powered by MT, but will specifically...

Stop Design Photo Gallery Plugin for Movable Type 4.1

In today's Movable Type hackathon I chose to focus on a Movable Type plugin of mine that has been neglected quite far too much since the release of MT4: the Photo Gallery plugin. I held off primarily because I knew...

Movable Type is whatever you want it to be

What has always drawn me to Movable Type is its flexibility. Most of the time we, that is Six Apart: my employer and creator of Movable Type, talk and think about MT's flexibility in terms of the web sites it...

Implementing Ping Back for Movable Type

Years ago Ben Trott introduced one of the first seminal technologies and protocols that would shape the very nature of blogging and our industry today. Subsequently, WordPress released an alternate Link Back protocol, the umbrella term to refer to all...

Action Streaming: Blogging evolved

When I started blogging 5 years ago I had a vision that majordojo would be the place where I would collect and share those things that I find online that interest and inspire me. It would be a soap box...

Technorati's totally broken user experience

I have been using Technorati for a long time as many of my friends do to track incoming links to majordojo. But recently I have grown increasingly frustrated with their service - so much so that I am a breath...

"Blogging is Dead; Its Social Media Now"

CMSWire recently published a video/interview with me about Movable Type 4, the Movable Type Community Solution and MTOS and the future of blogging and the future of products at Six Apart and... no that's it. During a recent visit to...

Introducing a Podcasting Plugin for Movable Type

So yesterday was a day just like any other day, except that I had the pleasure of listening to a Movable Type user rant about our claimed, but "lacking" support for podcasting. Man, it hurts hearing such a passionate user...

YouTube and Flickr support comes to Media Manager

In yesterday's hackathon I took another whack at Media Manager 2.0 adding support for two of the web's most popular media sharing services, Flickr and YouTube. I have yet to update the documentation for these new services, so here are...

To Niall: Please make more podcasts like this

At first when I heard Niall Kennedy introduce his 19 year old sister as the person he would be interviewing in his latest podcast I thought he must be getting desperate. In the past he typically interviews an Internet professional...

Demonstration of Amazon and Movable Type Integration

Media Manager is still in beta for Movable Type 4.0, but it is still relatively stable and in use by a number of different users across the web. To help demonstrate how seamlessly Movable Type can integrate with a third...

A presentation on Online Communities

Today will be third year I have had the privilege of speaking to students of the Haas Business School of Berkeley about various topics relating to Product Management. In the past I have spoken about Agile Product Development as well...

Introducing Media Manager 2.0 Beta 1

Media Manager has been a hobby of mine ever since I first started working for SIx Apart; from my first release of BookQueueToo, which was an expanded version of BookQueue, to a nearly completely rewritten Media Manager for Movable Type...

Introducing Clean Sweep for Movable Type 4

When I upgraded this blog to Movable Type 4.0 I wanted more then anything to completely start fresh. To rethink my URL structure, the use of hyphens vs. underscores in my file names and so on and so forth, but...

Movable Type 4.0: The Ultimate Peace Maker

Movable Type 4.0 is most developer-friendly release of the Movable Type platform to date. We have devoted countless hours creating some of the best developer documentation Six Apart has ever produced, and even harder trying to build into Movable Type...

It's a Whole New World: Movable Type 4.0 Launches

Earlier tonight we released Movable Type 4.0. It is hard to describe the feelings I have for this release, perhaps because it is 2:30am and I still am online reading the reviews coming out; but most likely because this is...