There's a whole range of new ways to work with and manage your photos in Movable Type. First, if you're using Flickr to manage your photos, MovableTypeFlickrPhotosets will let you fetch a list of your Flickr photosets to include in your weblog.

To work with photos within Movable Type, you'll want to try MT-PhotoGallery. There's a straightforward set of instructions on the plugin page for integrating the system with your existing Movable Type installation.

If you'd rather work more with Movable Type's built-in functionality, you can follow either of two excellent tutorials from Nicholas Findley and Elise Bauer. There's also a list of photoblog tutorials on the Movable Type wiki which...

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Just as the Atom API can be used to publish data to either Movable Type or TypePad (as well as many other publishing tools for weblogs, wikis and journals), an Atom syndication feed can be used to export your weblog's information in a consistent, well-specified format.

Right now, the Atom format is fairly similar to the RSS format in the range of things that are possible, but for many developers, one of the positive traits about Atom support is the documentation for the format.

In addition to an IETF Internet Draft, there's a test suite for clients which support auto-discovery and a feed validator to verify that your feed is correctly formed.

For most people using Movable Type and...

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Question

What is Movable Type?

Answer

Movable Type is the premier weblog publishing platform for businesses, organizations, developers, and web designers. The application is installed on your web server, and is flexible and appropriate for use by web developers, professionals, organizations or businesses with customization needs. For a simpler start to weblogs, you can try our TypePad service, which includes many of Movable Type’s features on a centrally hosted server that requires no configuration.

For more information on the features and...

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Shutterbug, one of the most popular magazines for photographers, has just published a piece entitled " How Photographers Are Making The Internet Work For Them". Covering some of the basics of photoblogging, and providing links to a few prominent sites, it's a good introduction to this important community:

Photographic enthusiasts tend to be rather individualisticit is just you and your camera and its definitely not a team sport. However, once a photograph is made, what do you do with it? Rather than just filing pictures in shoe boxes once they are created, it is natural for most to want to share their view and perspective of the world, that dimension of reality and life they find...

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Power Tools is one central place to get lots of open source code and components that Six Apart's team has released. Power Tools help you build better sites, apps, and platforms and to connect your applications to the rest of the web.

Most Power Tools code is released under open source licenses, making it possible to build on the work here in your own applications and services. Note: Power Tools are provided as technology demonstrations for our community, but we can't offer technical support for their use, installation, or configuration.

Plugins

• StyleCatcher 1.01: StyleCatcher is a simple but powerful plugin built for Movable Type 3.2 that lets you easily swap out any one of...

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Picostation's just released PicoBlogger, a blog client for Symbian Series 60 phones that lets you post to a Movable Type or TypePad blog via the Metaweblog API or Atom API.

Though you can post to TypePad from any mobile phone right now, a dedicated client offers the potential to smooth out the user experience and share your photos even more simply than many current phones allow. Cool stuff.

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Last week, we launched a number of new features on the TypePad service, but Professional Network members might be most interested in the new Notes TypeList. TypeLists are the sidebar content like lists of links, books, music, and blogrolls that you can easily update with the TypePad service. And Notes TypeLists are little blocks of any arbitrary HTML that you want to put on the side of your blog.

We've offered an Atom API for updating TypeLists for more than a year now. But even more exciting is that the new Notes TypeList supports the Atom API as well. That means that you can now insert content into a TypePad blog's sidebar using the API.

So, if you've got a service that requires...

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• 01: Installation and Upgrade • 02: Getting Started • 03: Templates and Layout ...

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Our own Mark Paschal just visited Linden Lab, the creators of the popular online gaming community Second Life, and he was inspired to create a new app called Landmarker.

From Mark's description:

At Cienna Rand's suggestion, I've been building a site to classify and share Second Life landmarks, Landmarker. On the writing side, you can post landmarks, write a description, add lightweight categories (tags), and link to pictures taken of that place with Snapzilla or Flickr (*cough* TypePad *cough*). For reading, you can browse by author, tag, or in-world geography. You can also add authors and tags to your "inbox" to check more easily.

Full technical details of the implementation are...

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Question

Who makes Movable Type?

Answer

Movable Type is created by Six Apart. The system was originally developed by the husband and wife co-founders of Six Apart, Benjamin Trott and Mena G. Trott.

Benjamin Trott is co-founder and CTO of Six Apart. Ben developed all of the backend code for Movable Type and TypePad, contributes regularly to CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and has written for Perl.com and contributed to “Essential Blogging”, along with posts to the Six Apart company weblog.

Mena Grabowski Trott is co-founder...

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Integrating A Remote System with Movable Type

Problem

You want to integrate a remote system with Movable Type.

Solution

Use one of the supported web service protocols.

Discussion

Movable Type supports a number of means of remote systems integration.

Syndication

Before reviewing the "proper" web service protocols supported by Movable Type, it is worth mentioning the use of syndication for integrating Movable Type with other systems. Essentially syndication formats over the web (HTTP) are simple read-only web services. The most popular and widely deployed of these services are...

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10.29.2004

Firefox on the March

Red Herring's got an interview with Rob Davis, the man behind the campaign to advertise Firefox in the New York Times. It's especially good timing for promoting every geek's favorite browser, since the updated roadmap shows the browser scheduled for release on November 9th.

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10.29.2004

Advice to the bloglorn

Metaforix President Lois C. Ambash has some advice for those afraid of business blogging. It's a solid set of guidelines, but we also loved the praise for TypePad:

As a novice blogger, I chose TypePad for my own blog, and I couldn't be happier. The...

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2.5 (2002.10.08)

• Localization: the MT interface can be available in multiple languages, on a per-author setting. • Integrated Jay Allen's mt-search (Thanks, Jay!). We've made the following changes from version 1.31b: • Rewrote ``new comments search'' to make it more scalable (using recently_commented_on functionality) • Added a search log through the Activity Log. • Added search request throttling, to help against denial of service attacks. • Merged mt-search.cfg directives into mt.cfg....

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Mena | December 07, 2005

I've just returned from Paris after attending Les Blogs, a weblogging conference organized by our European office. I'm still a bit jet-lagged and, at this moment, I haven't the energy to write up a long post about the morning talk I gave (plus the heated Q&A). However, I'd like to post the bulk of the speech I gave.

I was fairly hesitant to give this talk since I knew that it would stir up some heated discussions and I tend to prefer avoiding controversy -- especially considering my role at Six Apart. I ultimately decided to speak about civility because I, personally, haven't really seen anyone raise this topic from inside the industry and I do believe...

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Newsgator Toolkit

Although not directly related to Movable Type, many bloggers I know have been asking for such a tool. The Newsgator Toolkit is an extension for Mozilla Firefox that will eventually provide you with a series of complex and powerful tools...

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Updates to the Style Generator

At long last I've made some updates to the Style Generator to better fit with Six Apart's standard. This means that you can finally apply the tips discussed in this tutorial to stylesheets created using the style gen. Most of...

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I've been reading Signal vs. Noise, the weblog from 37Signals, for quite some time and consider the work that they do quite inspirational. One of the best company weblogs out there, Signal vs. Noise covers a variety of topics ranging from usability and design to company culture.

An underlying theme over at Signal vs. Noise is the concept that smaller is better -- smaller in terms of start-up capital, company size, development teams and even hardware. As part of a two-person team that created the initial versions of Movable Type and TypePad, I certainly understand the logic in encouraging small and nimble teams. The eighteen months that Ben and I spent in our spare bedroom coding was...

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If you have a lot of content - entries, categories, sidebar information - sooner or later things may begin to look a little cluttered on your weblog. One way to address this is to make some of your lists expandable and collapsible, as I have done with LMT's Table of Contents. There are probably many different ways to do this. I have found one method, based on Javascript, that is simple to implement and appears to work fine, from Bleeding Ego.

1. Upload listmenu.js to your server.

Copy the following script into a new file with a texteditor. Save the script as "listmenu.js". Upload the script to a location within the public directory of your server using an FTP program. (You can...

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I would categorize a BLOG content into mainly two groups. One for Broadcasting my opinion, which can be one about a social, political, technical, or entertainmental stuffs, to the world. I want as many people as possible to listen my voice. And the other is wholly for LOGging my personal affairs. I don't care who would see it or not.

Then, what means do I have in order to broadcate my post? How can I provide more opportunity for the world to take something from my posts? It can be possible by using meta blog sites, various syndication feeds, trackback pings or so. Are you satisfied?

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Movable Type is the premier weblog publishing platform for businesses, organizations, developers, and web designers. Powerful customization gives you control over everything you publish and the elegant interface keeps things simple and clear.

Features

• Unlimited Blogging

Movable Type offers the ability to publish an unlimited number of blogs quickly and easily through a single installation of the application. And the platform supports posting by as many authors as you need, with no limit on the numbers of entries, comments, or TrackBacks the system supports. • Powerful management...

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3.2 (2005.08.25)

Major Features

• New dead-simple AJAX-powered installation/upgrade process (see screencast demo) which replaces mt-load.cgi and all mt-upgrade* scripts. Also eliminated the upgrade distribution since only the config file would be different. • Combined mt.cfg and mt-db-pass.cgi into mt-config.cgi. Shipping as mt-config.cgi-original so as to prevent overwriting when upgrading. • Introduced the new System Overview section which allows administrators to configure and manage aspects of the system across all weblogs • Introduced a plugin-based feedback rating framework which scores comments and TrackBacks upon submission on a scale from -10 (least desirable) to 10 (most desirable)...

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