Thanks to a heads-up from Brittney, we noticed a segment that WKRN TV in Nashville, Tennessee ran about the active and growing blogging community in their hometown this week.

As the video of the segment (Windows Media stream) shows, each local gathering of bloggers has its own personality and community.

Some of the bloggers covered include Paul Chenoweth's Movable Type-powered blog and Brittney's Sparkwood & 21, powered by TypePad.

The local news channel's savviness about blogging shouldn't come as a surprise; They have their own roundup of local blogs, including some efforts from their own on-air staff.

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Publisher Nick Denton has just announced three new weblogs in the Gawker Media stable, Jalopnik, Kotaku, and Screenhead. Covering (respectively) cars, video games, and net silliness of the "funny forwards" variety, these three additions have already garnered coverage in the New York Times despite having launched earlier today.

It's not entirely surprising, of course. Nick's network of sites, including titles like Gawker, Wonkette and Gizmodo, are among the best-known blogs on the web, and have done a good job of helping people who are new to the medium to see the potential of weblogs. And, like all the blogs in the Gawker stable, the new additions are powered by Movable Type 3.11.

Congratulations to the...

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I've been getting hit all day by a "crap flood" spammer from who is leaving hundreds of nasty spam trackbacks on my various weblogs. This spammer is sure to be hitting other MT weblogs. If you want to preemptively block it from your site, go into your Blacklist settings and block the URL pattern, "pictures-and-videos.com". Make sure you have "Scan incoming TrackBack pings" ticked in your Blacklist Configuration. Have you found the tutorials at Learning Movable Type helpful? Please consider linking to LMT at http://www.learningmovabletype.com/ . Thanks!

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Okay, so it isn't really much of a brand. Yet. But I'm hoping that perhaps one day it will be the one-stop shop for all things Movable Type. Okay, maybe not all things. You'll still need to visit David and Tim from time to time as well.

But in the meantime, I figured it was time to add a little promotion to the company site, and I have done so with not only this entry, but the new Movable Type Consulting page. While it's a bit sparse at the moment, it should serve to get the point(s) across. Namely: A: I work with Movable Type. People pay me for this.

And of course... B: I think that more people should know about this.

While not forgetting... C: MT-Notifier now requires a license (in some cases)....

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What Zen was to the 70's (most famously with motorcycle maintenance), the Tao Te Ching was to the 90's. From Piglet and Pooh to Physics and back, many have sought sense in applying the Tao Te Ching to something (the Tao of Physics), or something to the Tao Te Ching (the Tao of Pooh). It can be a cheap trick, but lately it has struck me that there is more than a little to be understood about web design by looking through the prism of the Tao.

Daoism is a philosophy, like Buddhism, a way of living, of being in the world, which stems from a text of great antiquity, the Tao Te Ching, whose 81 "chapters" enigmatically sweep across human experience, but with a strong...

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With Ryan Holsten and Michael Krisher

The year 2000 came and went. Where did design go? As sad as it sounds, not terribly far. It was a year of trendiness, inspiration, imitation, and the imitation of inspired trendiness. What we can take away from the past year in digital design is the knowledge that the new medium is still deep in its early discovery phase.

Y2K (for lack of a shorter term) was going to change everything. Flying cars, artificial intelligence, talking toasters – this was our supposed fate. So where's our Jetsons lifestyle? Maybe Y3K would have been a more practical projection!

It's 11 p.m. Does your Mom know where you are?

The web is now recognized as...

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Learning Movable Type is now hosted on a new server and now has its own domain name - http://www.learningmovabletype.com. In the process of changing servers and changing URLs, we may have created some broken links or other site hiccups. If you encounter something that just doesn't seem to be working properly, please email me using the contact form.

Humongous thanks to Chad and Arvind for their invaluable assistance with this move.

If you link to Learning Movable Type (and we hope you do) please, please, please change the URL in your link to the new one. That way, Google will find us more easily, and those using Google to find things regarding Movable Type will find us more easily too....

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Update: A 2.01 release of MT-IfEmpty is now available, which mainly adds support for dynamic publishing in MT 3.1x.

You can download this plugin here: mtifempty-2_01.zip.

Usage: <MTIfEmpty var="EntryTitle">(untitled)</MTIfEmpty> <$MTEntryTitle$>

Embedded expression support works like this: <MTIfNotEmpty expr="[MTEntries days='1']1[/MTEntries]"> We...

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03.25.2005

InfoWorld review of Movable Type

InfoWorld has just published a review of Movable Type 3.15, with the ultimate conclusion that "Overall, Movable Type delivers a solid blogging experience." There's a useful overview of the platform's features, along with some legitimate points about what needs improvement, but we're just as glad to see users explaining why Movable Type is the right choice for them as well.

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03.25.2005

Politicians with Permalinks

The Christian Science Monitor has a broad look at politicians using blogs to better communicate with their...

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06.30.2005

New in Movable Type 3.2: A home for administrators

One of Movable Type's biggest strengths is the platform's support for an unlimited number of weblogs. Once you've got a thriving community of bloggers creating entries and publishing their thoughts, though, it quickly becomes necessary to manage the weblogs on your system.

To meet this need, we've introduced an entire new area of functionality in Movable Type 3.2: The System Overview. We've chosen the System Overview as the first feature to highlight in this new release because it represents a single home for administrators. It's one place to go to oversee everything that's happening across your...

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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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We believe in total empowerment of the user to decide what content they want to look at. – Microsoft Product Manager Shawn Sanford, as quoted by NewsBytes

Microsoft thinks they can improve my writing. This makes me want to get a gun and go to war. – Dave Winer, Scripting.com

Smart Tags can be developed by anybody, are completely under the user's control, and can do some very useful things. – Executive Editor David Coursey, writing for ZDNet AnchorDesk

This is exactly like what Microsoft did in the past...leveraging what they have on the desktop into another market... – Gartner analyst Michael Silver, as quoted by News.com

The dustup surrounding...

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07.27.2005

Dynamic Publishing support for PostgreSQL and SQLite

It's a common refrain for us to talk about Movable Type's wide platform support, but we really are committed to making sure Movable Type's full power is available on the widest variety of platforms. It's an investment that takes a lot of care and attention, but we think it's well worth the effort.

For example, take databases. Movable Type has long supported multiple databases, with MySQL and Berkeley DB being among the most popular. But two mature, popular open-source database technologies that a lot of our users have requested have also part of our platform support for over two years: PostgreSQL and...

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