The good people at BoingBoing have upgrade to Movable Type 4.0, and with that upgrade comes the return of comments. The new site has an improved look with better readability and (to my eye) fewer ads. In addition, they’ve hired Joel from Dethroner and Gizmodo fame to run BoingBoing Gadgets, a new sub-site focusing on [...]
Begin the Day with a Friendly Voice
There’s a bit of buzz going around about Vox, the latest hosted blogging service/community site from SixApart, creators of MovableType and purchasers of LiveJournal. I say a bit, because I’m surprised that there isn’t more: it’s a damn fine piece of work, and I had assumed that there’d be more coverage. I like the integration [...]
Getting back to Normal
I think I have my Dreamhost problems sorted – or at least the MovableType ones. I’ve switched all of the weblogs I maintain (no, really, there’s more going on than you realize) to MovableType 3.17, and after tweaking some templates and losing some features (temporarily), everything seems to be working again. I’m also trying out [...]
Comments not working
Well, I had thought that my transition to Dreamhost had worked out wonderfully, until I tried to comment on one of the pages I moved over. (Internal Server Error!) It seems that something deep in the bowels of MovableType is freaking out, and I can’t figure out what. I changed my mt.cfg, I changed the [...]
Mozilla Firefox now out
In case you’re spending the day in a hole, I should let you know that Mozilla Firebird has been renamed Firefox and is out with a new stable version. For the nervous I should point out that Firefox is still a beta version (0.8), but it’s been behaving itself for me. Now that you’ve got [...]
Never mind
All that stuff I posted about using comments to help your PageRank? Never mind. The fine people at MovableType have come up with a solution for comment spam that is so effective that it kills my idea as well. See, the reason that comment spammers do the things they do is that by linking from [...]
Everybody else gets the good ideas.
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve redesigned my wife’s site (under her direction and with her ideas) at FreshCaffeine as a series of MovableType blogs. She has 5 blogs that feed into a sixth blog. As opposed to simple categories, she can now create entire sites based around a concept and tailor them specifically to [...]
Getting to be number one
You know, I’m sure that if you all were a bunch of slimy internet marketers you’d already know this stuff, but I’ve recently gotten myself to the number one Google search result for "Jemal", "Jemaleddin" and "Jemal Cole." Why? Well, so people who know me can find me. The better question is how. I wondered [...]
New look
Well, at least it’s a start. I realized that I was starting to get traffic again, so I decided to at least get a rudimentary theme going. It’s still mostly the default MovableType template, but I’m slowly moving into something original. Or at least, I hope I am. Any thoughts? (And yes, I know it [...]
First post
I’m still trying to figure out how this MovableType thing works, so you’ll have to excuse the complete lack of information. Hopefully things will pick up soon. UPDATE – Well, this sucks. MT just plain doesn’t work in MozillaFirebird on Linux. Not what I was expecting.
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