"Mena による久し振りの長文 Entry"
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some clarification from Mena at Six
Apart
some clarification from Mena at Six
Apart
05/15/2004 07:05 PMaddressed 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, I take it all back!
Ben and Mena, I take it all back!
12/23/2003 12:23 AMBen 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....
Ben and Mena come to London...
Ben and Mena come to London...
07/09/2004 03:00 AMSo 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:
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Ben and Mena come to London
Ben and Mena come to London
07/10/2004 04:58 AMweather presenter .. Tom Coates ..
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mena on salon's six apart article
mena on salon's six apart article
08/09/2004 04:40 PMit's always nice to have an outside perspective
IT Conversations: Ben and Mena Trott -
Six Apart
IT Conversations: Ben and Mena Trott -
Six Apart
05/16/2004 03:15 PMBen and Mena gave a great interview here .. Ben und Mena Trott
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Ben and Mena make the Fast 50
Ben and Mena make the Fast 50
02/16/2004 01:17 PMi am always amused by lists that treat the Trott as a single entity
help ben and mena get on Yahoo! Most
Emailed
help ben and mena get on Yahoo! Most
Emailed
02/18/2004 09:35 PMif our blogging tool was called "pair of boobs and a kitten"
we'd already be number one
nice interview with ben and mena
nice interview with ben and mena
05/15/2004 07:09 AMi like the part at 12:00 where mena gets genuinely choked up talking
about how kind our users are
mena holds a gun to my head
mena holds a gun to my head
08/04/2004 03:21 PMthis is how we motivate workers at six apart
Dear Ben and Mena, Thanks for lunch!
[Flickr]
Dear Ben and Mena, Thanks for lunch!
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02/05/2005 10:08 PMMena Trott steps down as SixApart CEO
Mena Trott steps down as SixApart CEO
07/14/2004 03:38 PMMena 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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"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 PMBen 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 AMAfter 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 AMThe 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]
mena on tightly knit bonds in bl0gging
mena on tightly knit bonds in bl0gging
07/09/2004 12:06 PMthe real weblog revolution and a defense of personal weblogs
"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 PMBen and Mena Trott sucker punch the
webl0gging community
Ben and Mena Trott sucker punch the
webl0gging community
05/13/2004 02:02 PMOf 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 AMI 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 --...
First entry
First entry
03/13/2003 10:16 AMMy first entry, late but good, right? If my style-sheet could work as
well, everything would be perfect. Then, and...
Entry #2,500
Entry #2,500
06/17/2004 05:49 PMLast September, we celebrated numbe
r 1,000. About two months later, we got to 1,500. Apparently we were too busy to celebrate number 2,000,
because that one slipped by before we noticed.
So, here's 2,500, which is cool for the sole reason that my goal
for the site has always been 5,000 posts. For a long while, I managed
to keep up 10 posts per day, but then my job got the better of me and
I slacked off a bit. For the last 30 days, we've been averaging 3.33
posts per day, which seems really low to me. If you take out
weekends, we get up to about 4.
At this rate we'll hit 5,000 somewhere in February 2006. I'll
still be here. I hope you will too.
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"be sure to see her entry "
"be sure to see her entry "
05/06/2004 04:21 AMInvisible Entry
Invisible Entry
05/16/2004 09:35 AMSome how this thing was posted without me knowing it. So here is a
picture of a fat cat:
Worthy of an entry
Worthy of an entry
04/14/2004 09:20 PMSo the Rocky and Bullwinkle machine was brought into the house today.
It is the coooooolest thing ever. It is...
Entry 1,000 Revisited
Entry 1,000 Revisited
09/09/2004 09:02 AMEntry
Number 1,000: One year ago today we hit 1,000 entries. How
quaint.
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"Entry Link"
"Entry Link"
01/03/2004 07:07 PM"Link to this entry"
"Link to this entry"
06/17/2004 10:44 PMEntry 1000
Entry 1000
12/24/2003 09:58 AMWow...1000 entries. That's pretty spiffy if you ask me. I can't
believe it's been so long. My brother and I...
The News, One Entry at a Time
The News, One Entry at a Time
04/20/2004 04:50 AMBlogging the news is popular sport, and the mainstream media is
beginning to take notice and fight back, giving some spice to their
reports. Mark Baard reports from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
this entry is [ ] emailable [x] written
at 3am
this entry is [ ] emailable [x] written
at 3am
01/07/2004 05:40 PMExchanging email this weekend with Roland Tanglao, I noticed his .sig
had a rather nifty last line: ...Roland roland@rolandtanglao.com Got
Blog? www.streamlinewebco.com +1 604 xxx xxxx rolandtanglao.com
VanEats.com this email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private...
But is there an entry for beer goggles?
But is there an entry for beer goggles?
05/22/2004 06:32 PMThe Globe and Mail,Canada-12 hours ago ... it is the technological
world that has been most fecund in coining new terminology, prompting
additions of the verb "to google" and the word "blog" -- not to ...
"Read entire entry"
"Read entire entry"
06/11/2004 12:09 AM"Neil Armstrong entry"
"Neil Armstrong entry"
06/12/2004 09:26 AM"bl0g entry on a quote"
"bl0g entry on a quote"
04/01/2005 10:27 PMLate bl0g entry
Late bl0g entry
03/13/2003 10:16 AM'Cause I don't have a laptop or anything yet, I wrote this blog entry
on paper Friday: Life in Oslo...
Customizing your Entry Screen
Customizing your Entry Screen
03/24/2005 12:15 AMOne of the great little features of Movable Type that a lot of users
miss is the ability to customize the entry posting screen. If you've
already done it, you know how handy it can be, but if you never...
New entry into GPS Pocket PC market
New entry into GPS Pocket PC market
07/20/2004 02:58 PMEngadget Jul 20 2004 7:14PM GMT
Dazzling entry for new EU members
Dazzling entry for new EU members
04/30/2004 05:56 PMThe European Union celebrates its historic expansion in spectacular
style as 10 new countries join.
Installing the MIF Entry Tool
Installing the MIF Entry Tool
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