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nice interview on mozillazine

nice interview on mozillazine 07/12/2004 09:04 AM
the advocacy site has advanced as much as the mozilla app has

nice interview with Zephyr Teachout

nice interview with Zephyr Teachout 01/16/2004 12:59 PM
being a campaign interview, it's not super insightful, but it's worth a read

nice Voice interview with Wonkette

nice Voice interview with Wonkette 07/21/2004 11:01 AM
now that your blog can get you on TV, the next step is a blog getting you a book deal!

some clarification from Mena at Six
Apart

some clarification from Mena at Six
Apart 05/15/2004 07:05 PM
addressed some of these concerns today .. The Movable Type 3.0 FAQ .. posted a clarification .. this link to an update .. Mena and the changes .. explanation .. firestorm .. go over

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Ben and Mena come to London...

Ben and Mena come to London... 07/09/2004 03:00 AM

So Ben and Mena and Loic have been in London for meetings and a few of us managed to get together and hang out with them for a bit. We've got Ben drinking warm flavoursome beer, Mena puffing away on cigarettes in pubs and Loic's been trying to run over small children with his push trolley. We even got to roam around Television Centre with them a bit today - Mena making a particularly fetching weather presenter.

Loic took some pictures too:

• Arriving in London
• A really nasty picture of me looking like I have a comb-over
• M ena posing with cigarette
• M ena presenting the weather

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Ben and Mena come to London

Ben and Mena come to London 07/10/2004 04:58 AM
weather presenter .. Tom Coates .. more

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"Mena による久し振りの長文
Entry"

"Mena による久し振りの長文
Entry" 07/14/2004 10:18 PM

Ben and Mena, I take it all back!

Ben and Mena, I take it all back! 12/23/2003 12:23 AM
Ben and Mena Trott have made up in a big way for their earlier silence on future plans for MovableType. In a series of postings on Six Apart and MovableType, they have announced release of a security update to MT, support for Atom 0.3, and a feature list and time frame for MovableType 3.0.. It all sounds great, and to my surprise it seems that they intend to keep the current pricing structure, e.g. free for non-commercial use. I hereby volunteer to be a Beta tester. I and some others have complained publically and privately to about the lack of news regarding MovableType. I received some kind private email from Mena, but this kind of an announcement demonstrates better than anything that the Trotts listen to user feedback, and that they have not forgotten their first users. It makes me feel a little sheepish about my earlier criticism -- I hope that it was useful, in the way it was intended to be. Certainly the least I can do now is volunteer as a Beta tester and send some of my Christmas pin money their way, to help pay for all the engineering and usability work. To Ben and Mena and the rest of the team at MT/SA, thanks for all the news, and thanks for the hard work that it represents....

IT Conversations: Ben and Mena Trott -
Six Apart

IT Conversations: Ben and Mena Trott -
Six Apart 05/16/2004 03:15 PM
Ben and Mena gave a great interview here .. Ben und Mena Trott interviewt

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help ben and mena get on Yahoo! Most
Emailed

help ben and mena get on Yahoo! Most
Emailed 02/18/2004 09:35 PM
if our blogging tool was called "pair of boobs and a kitten" we'd already be number one

mena on salon's six apart article

mena on salon's six apart article 08/09/2004 04:40 PM
it's always nice to have an outside perspective

Ben and Mena make the Fast 50

Ben and Mena make the Fast 50 02/16/2004 01:17 PM
i am always amused by lists that treat the Trott as a single entity

mena holds a gun to my head

mena holds a gun to my head 08/04/2004 03:21 PM
this is how we motivate workers at six apart

"Mena on comment spam and the new
version of MT"

"Mena on comment spam and the new
version of MT" 12/24/2004 01:00 PM

Mena Trott steps down as SixApart CEO

Mena Trott steps down as SixApart CEO 07/14/2004 03:38 PM
Mena Trott has stepped down as CEO of SixApart, makers of Movable Type and TypePad, in favour of Barak Berkowitz, one of their Series A investors. Mena's written a heartfelt appreciation of Barak that is an instant classic -- a unique example of a company founder's sincere desire to see her efforts bear fruit, even if she's not's in charge any longer (though she's staying on as President).

At our office, we had phone cables running up and down walls and doorframes and across the floor. This mess was around for months until one day Barak came to work with a T-shirt, some tool-belt type thing and some device to do phone wiring. During the course of the afternoon, Barak installed our phone lines and cleaned up the office.

Incidentally, while he was doing this, Maile, our administrative assistant came in for her first interview with us and saw Barak. A week or two later when we called her in for a second interview I asked that she speak with Barak so that he could interview her as well. After we hired Maile and explained who Barak was she laughed and said "Oh, I thought he was the handyman and that this company really liked to get everyone involved!"

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Dear Ben and Mena, Thanks for lunch!
[Flickr]

Dear Ben and Mena, Thanks for lunch!
[Flickr] 02/05/2005 10:08 PM

nice survey of a nice market....but can
u plz tell me of which city this survey
is?

nice survey of a nice market....but can
u plz tell me of which city this survey
is? 09/08/2004 11:26 PM
TechTree Sep 9 2004 3:48AM GMT

mena on tightly knit bonds in bl0gging

mena on tightly knit bonds in bl0gging 07/09/2004 12:06 PM
the real weblog revolution and a defense of personal weblogs

Ben and Mena Trott: You forgot to dance
with who brung ya

Ben and Mena Trott: You forgot to dance
with who brung ya 05/14/2004 03:25 AM
After I wrote the post this morning, Ben and Mena Trott sucker punch the weblogging community, I had second thoughts about it, especially the title, which has a moralistic and judgmental tone that isn't appropriate. If it wasn't for my belief that it is almost always dishonest to rewrite something that you have already published (and that others have linked to), I would take the post down. Instead, I'm writing a new version of it: As I said earlier, Six Apart has the right to charge whatever the market will bear for their labor. So why are people so outraged, and why is it a questionable business decision? Is it just because Movable Type users are a bunch of whiners who want something for nothing, as some believe? I don't think so. Six Apart is reneging on a very public promise, and is treating the people who helped make Movable Type a success very poorly. A little history from a long-time user: Movable Type owes its success first of all to Ben and Mena having done a great job designing, implementing and updating a product with an excellent user interface and superb documentation, and secondly to having it ready at just the right time to catch the blogging wave. But the third factor in Movable Type's success was the army of evangelists and contributors who sold the products to their friends, businesses and community organizations, and who contributed bug reports, bug fixes, responses on the bulletin boards, and great plug-ins. In many ways, Movable Type was treated by the community like a Free Software project, which it wasn't. But the ethos of the MT 2.x license, if you make money off this software you have to pay, if you don't you don't, was very similar to that of MySQL and other open source companies, so people, in spite of warnings, ignored the significant differences between it and free open source. From a business point of view, Movable Type Personal was the seed product, or the loss- leader, that sold Movable Type Commercial. The other part of the history is that when Six Apart got VC funding and shortly thereafter started work on TypePad, it stopped work on its already announced 3.0 product, but didn't say anything publically about it for many months. Meanwhile, the Movable Type comment spam problem started and quickly threatened to grow to unmanageable proportions. As resentment...

MENA Mobile Subscriptions 60% below
Market Potential

MENA Mobile Subscriptions 60% below
Market Potential 09/13/2004 03:17 AM
The Middle East & North Africa region has only 45m current subscribers from an addressable mobile market of 115m. This large spread emphasizes the tremendous pent up demand and the profitability potential awaiting the mobile operators best suited to tackle this regions needs. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

"Meg, Ev, Paul Bausch, Ben, and Mena are
PC Magazine's People of the Year"

"Meg, Ev, Paul Bausch, Ben, and Mena are
PC Magazine's People of the Year" 12/25/2004 05:03 PM

Ben and Mena Trott sucker punch the
webl0gging community

Ben and Mena Trott sucker punch the
webl0gging community 05/13/2004 02:02 PM
Of course Six Apart has the right to charge whatever they want for MovableType, but having repeatedly said that they would provide a free version of MovableType 3.0 for personal use then announcing this crippleware that is MT 3.0 personal is stupid at best, dishonest at worst. Enraging your first customers and your developer community is a strange path to business success. Hopefully they will reconsider after being enveloped in the perfect storm that is brewing....

Mena Trott answers 6A's critics and
Geodog signs off on criticism

Mena Trott answers 6A's critics and
Geodog signs off on criticism 09/16/2004 03:40 AM
I wasn't planning on ever writing anything about SixApart and MovableType again, but today Kris Krug sent me mail alerting me to a lengthy interview he did with Mena Trott, where she responds to some of the recent criticism of Six Apart and the MT 3.0, and 3.1 releases: MT: One of the biggest things that I want to get through (and that I probably don't a good enough job of getting through) is that it's completely untrue that we're this big corporate company and that we don't care about the users-that it's all about just Ben and Mena and the venture capitalists. It's not so; there are so many smart people here who love what they're doing and love blogging. It dismisses their value when people say the company is just a big corporation that doesn't care about its users. People should understand that when you're insulting the company, you're insulting a lot of people. We're all good people and I wish everyone would take some time to see that. There are so many other targets to focus on; our little company from San Mateo is the least among them. The interview is worth reading in its entirety, if you are interested in the whole MovableType saga and some of the issues around the recent releases. To round out the view, or if you want a different perspective, check out long time MT user Ben Hammersley's opinion, Ben Trott's response, and 6A supporter and plug-in writer Timothy Appnel's comments. I myself have said more than enough about MovableType and SixApart, and gained some unwanted notoriety through a poor choice of weblog post titles. I've also have had my criticisms misrepresented, and Anil Dash has fairly called upon me to examine my criticisms. As a result I reread Anil's post about criticism, and reread for about the 10th time Phil Ringnalda's classic post on the same subject, there is no they, and I've decided not to spend any more time offering what Anil called "unsolicited criticism." We all have more important things to do. I will just note that I as I have said elsewhere thought MovableType was a was a brilliant product when I first encountered it. The documentation, user interface, features and support were superb. I enjoyed the time learning how to hack the templates and add plugins. I appreciated the ethos of the old MT license --...

Interview: YARI (Yet Another Rasmus
Interview)

Interview: YARI (Yet Another Rasmus
Interview) 01/30/2003 09:29 AM

Congratulations Mena G. Trott and Ben
Trott

Congratulations Mena G. Trott and Ben
Trott 12/24/2004 12:46 PM

Mena G. Trott and Ben Trott of SixApart have been named People of the Year by PC Magazine. Congrats to both and that is one of the bigger Geek Awards one can win. [PC Magazine]

Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down

Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down 04/22/2004 10:44 AM
There are many reasons I love the Internet, but the fact that weblogs like Louise Garston's exist would have to be one of them. "Nice cup of tea and a sit down" is the Internet hub for cake, tea, and biscuits. That's it. Period. Simple. It's totally sincere and sweet, and full of breaking news about which flavor of jam is most popular for discriminating toast aficionados, newly resurrected teas, and so on. Sometimes, Louise posts tea-and-biscuit related art, like a portrait of "Two little old space-alien ladies having a nice sit down." At present, Louise is pretty worked up about the fact that the "iconic" biscuit known as Tim Tams have recently become available to UK consumers, after a long and ardurous struggle. "Tescos sell them now," says Louise. "Hooray, you have to tell everyone, they're fantastic! Enjoy!"
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Nice uses of CC

Nice uses of CC 04/06/2005 08:45 PM
A couple quick things: I thought it was cool that blogging software company Six Apart republished an essay by Adaptive Path on the failings of Content Management Systems, all about software of the type Six Apart develops. It's all in accordance with Adaptive Path's license, which allows commercial redistribution.

Another cool thing was seeing Blogcritics.org do a "featured content of the week" type feature we've done in the past here. Phillip Winn found eight amazing photos at Flickr, and posted links to check them out, all available under Creative Commons licenses.

Wouldn't It Be Nice?

Wouldn't It Be Nice? 02/13/2004 05:21 PM
One of the things collectors are always asking about are more playsets. Friend to Rebelscum and top notch customizer Steve Ceragioli gives us a glimpse of what 'could be' with his take on the vintage Dagobah playset from The Empire Strikes Back line. Considering how nice the upcoming Dagobah wave looks, we feel it's hightime Hasbro gives serious consideration to a few of these great playsets from the past.

What a Nice Day

What a Nice Day 12/16/2002 12:12 PM
It is really snowing hard outside. But it's not quite cold enough for it to accumulate to anything significant. I only wish I had a camera to capture it, this one, specifically. With U2 playing in the background, and no real plans for today, it's really a nice morning. If you've come here from Stonefishspine, welcome. If you haven't, you're okay too. Over the weekend I spent a lot of time collaborating (coblogerating?) with G.K. Nelson of Stonefishspine on a new kind of commenting system to integrate with pMachine, a blogging (Content Management) system. I'm very happy with the end result. If you'd like to see it, head over to Stonefishspine and click on one of the "Comments" link under any entry. The system uses one part PHP, and two parts DOM-compatible Javascript. The whole thing only required about four lines of additional code added to pMachine, on top of its own files, which aren't too large. If it doesn't work for you, its likely because your web browser has lack-luster (I've never actually typed that phrase before) support for the Javascript DOM. So far, GK and I have confirmed that IE6/Win, Mozilla Win/Mac, and Opera 7 handle the system just fine. IE/Mac doesn't seem to like it, though; I'm working on it. From my coding perspective, two things were crucial in designing the sytem. One, if the user's browser didn't support the Javascript DOM, they would still be able to comment, via a popup window. For example, try to comment in Opera 6 and you'll get the standard commenting popup window which can see the same comments the dynamic version does. This brings me to the second important point, pMachine compatibility. I determined early on that if I was going to make the system work fluidly with pMachine, I would a.) have to do a lot of coding, or b.) figure out a way to make it work with pMachines existing infrastructure. In the case of the former, compatibility may have been lost in the next pMachine release. However, because of how pMachine is designed, I was able to use the latter approach. Because of this we were able to complete the project in just over a day and a half, instead of a week I think it would of taken if I had to make it interact is pMachines database system, which would of involved talking to three different tables. Because of this simple interaction with pMachine, the whole system would be easily ported to other people's installations of pMachine. Likely, at some point in the future when all the bugs are worked out, the entire system will be available to anyone who wants it. I may even have to enable commenting on my installation of pMachine to take advantage of the system. :)

Am I too nice?

Am I too nice? 02/18/2004 07:33 AM
I've been "nice" my whole life, but I need to know when to draw the line.

Nice

Nice 07/27/2004 09:31 PM

Whoa, Bob Burnquist, pro skateboarder, has his own organic food company, selling herbs and reportedly refuses any and all junk food product endorsements. Pretty cool to see a pro doing something besides his own skateboard company.

Nice ice

Nice ice 12/24/2004 12:49 PM
Lab-made diamonds are as dazzling as those mined by third-world labor. This bling may be easier on your conscience -- and your wallet.

nice.

nice. 12/19/2004 03:09 PM
Lots has been up lately. As mentioned not too long ago, I have taken up a volunteer job at a...

Let's be nice...

Let's be nice... 11/19/2003 05:48 PM
Tsk, tsk, America. It seems that we may be collectively having a problem with being nice.

Raya Contact Centre is the certified B2B
contact centre for Intel in the MENA
region

Raya Contact Centre is the certified B2B
contact centre for Intel in the MENA
region 03/24/2005 04:18 AM
AME Info Mar 24 2005 8:36AM GMT

Gump is nice

Gump is nice 03/16/2003 11:07 AM

Steven Noels: Welcome Gump

LOL!  What Steven doesn't mention is that gump is nice.

Hey, Ya... Nice Ringtone!

Hey, Ya... Nice Ringtone! 02/18/2004 02:52 PM
Long a hot item overseas, mobile ringtones are becoming a moneymaker in the States.

Be nice! That car has feelings too.

Be nice! That car has feelings too. 07/26/2004 08:53 PM

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Beyond3D - Which was nice.

Beyond3D - Which was nice. 05/05/2004 01:09 AM
Beyond 3D .. Beyond3D

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