Six Apart Japan was acquired by Infocom (not the defunct games company, but a Japanese IT group):
Overall, I think this is a good thing for MT. It is now in the hands of people who care, which is nice.
Byrne Reese (ex Six Apart MT developer & community manager) on why WordPress won the "blogging wars"
- Byrne's article: How did WordPress Win?
- The resulting comment thread after making front page on Reddit
- Adam Tinworth's take: For a company that was, apparently, all about supporting bloggers, it was awful at blogging. Truly, truly awful.
- Jonathan Bailey's take
Good summary of what happened, I hope Infocom/Six Apart KK learns from it.
OpenMelody (a community driven fork of Movable Type Open Source) announces its last beta:
It will be interesting to see how it compares to the MT 5.1 beta.
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