This week, The New York Times announced TimesSelect, a subscription service where they'll be making their editorial content available. As is to be expected, it's prompted a lot of reactions from bloggers worried about whether they'll continue to be able to keep linking to articles in the Times, as well as questions about the ongoing influence that the Time will have if some of its content is behind a paid barrier.

Perhaps lost in the shuffle is one of the more interesting subtleties of the TimesSelect service, as pointed out by PaidContent in their interview with Martin Nisenholtz of Times Digital:

"We want to create a second robust revenue stream," he explained, filling me in on some...

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Continuing his series of stories serving as an introduction to blogging, Newsday's Lou Dolinar gives some good advice on how to get attention for your blog, and closes with the promise that next week's story will explain how to make money with your blog.

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We've just announced our partnership with Kanoodle which will let TypePad customers easily add contextual ads to their weblogs if they choose.

We plan to enable this feature on our Typepad service early next year, and we'e very excited to give TypePad weblogs the chance to easily generate revenue. Stay tuned as we'll be giving Professional Network members first notice on new ways to make money with your sites.

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We're happy to announce that this afternoon we released Movable Type 3.1.

We're extremely excited about this new release, and also about how quickly this free update is coming on the heels of Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition. Whereas it took more than a year between 2.6 and 3.0, we're now releasing 3.1 only three months after 3.0 Developer Edition. The release of 3.0, combined with the changes in licensing, has allowed us to recommit resources to Movable Type development, and that's a big reason why you're seeing major features in a free update released so soon after 3.0.

Here's a look at the major features in Movable Type 3.1.

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You can refer to our pricing page to find the cost for the license which is appropriate for your use. There is also a Movable Type license that is available for free for personal, non-commercial use by anyone who does not want technical support and who meets the usage limitations for authors and weblogs.

Purchase of any license of Movable Type is backed by a 30 day money-back guarantee.

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Yahoo allows people to easily add RSS newsfeeds into their user-customized My Yahoo portal pages. For publishers of RSS feeds, like almost every Typepad and Movable Type user, this means that you can easily let your readers add your feed to their My Yahoo page by simply clicking on a button.

Millions of people use My Yahoo pages to create their own customized view of the news they care about. Most people outside of the blogging community don't know what RSS is and tend to look cross-eyed when you try to explain it to them. Yahoo makes it very easy to reap the benefits of RSS without having to see funky looking files or download a newsfeed reader, yet another piece of software.

For those of us with weblogs...

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InternetWeek has an in-depth look at the evolution of Amazon's web services platform. With some good insights from Jeff Barr, the program manager for Amazon Web Services, there's a lot that can be learned both about working with the web services and about scaling a service as popular as AWS.

There are some good examples from the AWS community which make it easy to build on the platform as well, such as Elena Dykhno's AWS Zone, which includes extensive code samples and examples, and Alan Taylor's terrific Amazon Light, which binds a whole stack of web services together into one comprehensive application.

What's especially interesting about these web services is not just that they can...

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Movable Type 3.1 Launched

We're happy to announce that this afternoon we released Movable Type 3.1.

We're extremely excited about this new release, and also about how quickly this free update is coming on the heels of Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition. Whereas it took more than a year between 2.6 and 3.0, we're now releasing 3.1 only three months after 3.0 Developer Edition. The release of 3.0, combined with the changes in licensing, has allowed us to...

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Erik Barzeski is looking for a polling plugin to work with a Movable Type-powered blog that he's working on. Given the success with DropCash campaigns for plugins in the past, maybe it's time to start fundraising for functionality again.

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NSLog(); - DropCash for Polling - September 21, 2004 06:15 AMSix Apart has heard my request for MT-compatible polling and come up with a possible solution: setting up a DropCash campaign to raise money for polling. I'd like to do so, but first of course we'd need to agree on...

JayAllen - The Daily Journey - Polling for Dollars - September 24, 2004 07:31 PMThis could be interesting… [via erik] What about a system where...

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Google's recently-announced Summer of Code program is designed to help encourage students to develop for open source platforms. We're glad to have our LiveJournal community as a participating organization, and they've created a list of projects that are good suggestions for getting started.

In addition to $4500 in prize money, building on top of LiveJournal gives you the chance to get your work in front of a wide audience of non-technical users, making it fairly distinct from some of the other excellent organizations that are participating in the Summer of Code program.

Be sure to get your proposals in as soon as possible, as the number of applications which will be accepted is...

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In a move that's sure to delight lots of developers, eBay has announced that the eBay API is now available for free. In addition, membership in the eBay Developers Program and standard application certification for your apps which use the eBay API are now free as well.

It's great news to see another major Internet company open up their API for free, especially since eBay has a strong economy formed around its services. This means developers can really make money and create value by building on top of the API. That's on top of the fact that eBay's paying up to $5000 to developers who enter their Developer Challenge.

If you want to get started, we'd point you at the eBay Developer Program blog, which is powered by TypePad. And we'll be talking in the coming weeks on the Professional Network blog about how building on top of blogging APIs is a natural complement to web services like eBay's if you're a developer who'd like to benefit from and profit from your work....

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Over on the Professional Network members blog, we've been regularly posting even more job listings for people with experience on Six Apart platforms, especially Movable Type. In the past week alone, there's almost a dozen new listings, and of course we regularly post job requests on the member mailing list as well.

If you're not already a Professional Network member, and you've got blog skills that you'd like to take advantage of to help build your business or just to make some extra money, you'll want to sign up or find out more about membership. Recent job listings have been requesting skills ranging from experience writing blogs to design and implementation to technical development...

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If you're in California, there are a few events where some of us at Six Apart will be speaking tomorrow. Andrew Anker is discussing the " Architecture of Participation" at Web 2.0, and I'll be on a panel entitled " Technology and Convergence: Threat, or Opportunity?" at the NAB Radio Show.

If you've got any suggestions for topics to be discussed, feel free to add them as TrackBacks below. I'm not sure the schedule for the NAB panel, but I hope to be able to introduce the audience of radio executives to the idea of podcasting as well as introduce the idea of blogging in general.

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Nearly everyone in our Professional Network community knows Jay Allen and his work, and we're thrilled to announce that Jay's joining Six Apart as product manager for Movable Type.

Those of you who've seen his work with plugins, extending Movable Type, and in communicating about our products know that his experience as an expert with Movable Type will help us better fit the needs of those of you who are doing similar work as developers, consultants, and weblog experts.

Update: Jay's posted about his side of the story as well.

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JayAllen - The Daily Journey - Powered by Movable Type - October 8, 2004 06:47 PMAlmost precisely three years ago to the day, two of my...

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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's ugly, but boy, it's never been a more welcome read.

That's right, the new Movable Type 3.2 User's Manual has just been released. You know what that means... MT 3.2 Final is just around the corner! The manual is long, but most importantly, it's USEFUL. About the only thing I ever learned from the old manual was Melody and Nelson; this finally presents you with real-life scenarios that help make installation a little less painful than it is and makes those people who make money installing MT a little uneasy.

They even have the manual open for moderated comments and a Beta Blog where you can catch all the latest news about MT...

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Workflow, a new plugin for Movable Type 3.1x, has just been released by David Raynes. While we don't usually feature new plugins as part of our news about the Movable Type platform, we thought it was worth pointing out because Workflow adds a powerful new area of functionality, and also marks a milestone for the growth of our plugin community.

First, the features: Workflow lets you limit control of publshing rights to certain authors in your Movable Type installation, allowing other people on the system to act as editors and review entries before they're published. Administrators can control who has rights to any of these levels of permissions. Plus, authors can transfer...

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I'm very happy to announce that this afternoon we released Movable Type 3.1.

What you're seeing with Movable Type 3.1 is a free update that comes a little over three months from our last release. When we made our licensing and pricing changes one of the things we didn't articulate clearly enough was that it takes revenue to keep a product line going. And, with the new pricing we have been able to spend a great deal of attention focusing on the features we've heard our users asking for in our products.

Sure, some Movable Type users migrated to other tools. And, of course, it is sad to see them leave. However, we feel strongly that the Movable Type community (and Six Apart as a...

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I just read an interesting post about Movable Type and plugins (specifically Workflow). In a nutshell, the argument is that Movable Type is a product - one which costs money - and having to buy add-ons to provide what is perceived as core functionality isn't a good thing. It's an interesting argument, and one that I can understand as a consumer.

When that equation flips around, however, is when there is an issue. The developing of plugins really doesn't take that much time. I can write something that works on my system in a flash, and then pack it up so that anyone can download it.

What kills me is the testing and support time required. Not everyone uses the same setup as I do, and...

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