How absurd: Six Apart, the blog-software maker which has helped so many bloggers overturn the staid, outdated conventions of journalism and PR, has tried to use an embargo to quash news of a software upgrade until 9 p.m. tonight. Mashable published the news earlier this morning, and then yanked its story. The…
Automattic, Matt Mullenweg's blog-tools startup, is readying an upgrade to its WordPress software this week. Anil Dash of Six Apart took the occasion to let WordPress users know they can upgrade to his company's Movable Type instead. It's a move straight out of Oracle's handbook. But Mullenweg freaked out, calling…
Six Apart is entering the build-your-own-social-network-that-no-one-will-care-about business with a new "community solution" for Movable Type, its popular weblog software. [Compiler]
Six Apart has, at last, released Movable Type 4.0. The best new feature in the blog-software package: You know those hopelessly annoying dweebs who leave tiresome comments on your blog? Why, now you can "promote" them to be full authors! How thrilling: more loser-generated content. A feature suggestion for Movable…
Movable Type, the aging blog software made by San Francisco startup Six Apart, may be set to release a new 4.0 version on Tuesday. Barely. Which is bad, considering that Movable Type is still the company's cash cow. Byrne Reese, its product manager, accidentally forwarded an internal planning memo to an outside…
