Ben and Mena, I take it all back!

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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 come to London

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

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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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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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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 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

nice interview with ben and mena

nice interview with ben and mena 05/15/2004 07:09 AM
i like the part at 12:00 where mena gets genuinely choked up talking about how kind our users are

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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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 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

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

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

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 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

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]

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....

"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

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 --...

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]

Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times)

Floridians Bracing for the Arrival of
Back-to-Back Tropical Storms (Los
Angeles Times) 08/12/2004 06:07 AM
Los Angeles Times - FORT MYERS, Fla. — As rare back-to-back tropical storms — one a hurricane, the other likely to become one — churned Wednesday toward Florida, Gov. Jeb Bush declared a statewide emergency and mobilized the National Guard. Tourists were told to evacuate the low-lying Florida Keys.

Livewire: Back to School Means Back to
Advergames (Reuters)

Livewire: Back to School Means Back to
Advergames (Reuters) 09/15/2004 03:18 PM
Reuters - Back to school for many kids means "back to Internet access" in classes where the best of filtering software is not foolproof, particularly against seemingly harmless Web sites used for invasive marketing.

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

POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back

POS! Microphone doesnt work. Took back
and got money back 09/11/2004 10:09 PM
TechTree Sep 12 2004 2:43AM GMT

To Florida WebmasterWorld Members - Back
Ups Back Ups

To Florida WebmasterWorld Members - Back
Ups Back Ups 09/02/2004 05:26 PM
In the face of a hurrican, do you have a diaster recovery plan?

"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy"

"After coming back from a critical legal
conference, I find that the US
government are going back to spying on
people who disagree with government
policy" 02/10/2004 02:52 AM

"But the bond between veterans has to be
tempered in light of the individual's
record. Just as Mr. Kerry threw away
medals only to claim them back again,
Sen. Kerry voted to take action against
Iraq, but claims to take that vote back
by voting against..."

"But the bond between veterans has to be
tempered in light of the individual's
record. Just as Mr. Kerry threw away
medals only to claim them back again,
Sen. Kerry voted to take action against
Iraq, but claims to take that vote back
by voting against..." 01/27/2004 02:55 PM

SP2: Customer Push Back Leads to
Delivery Push Back

SP2: Customer Push Back Leads to
Delivery Push Back 08/17/2004 09:42 AM
Citing corporate concerns, Microsoft has postponed its automatic delivery of Windows XP Service Pack 2(SP2). Most corporate users of the Professional Edition now are set to get SP2 via Windows Update/Automatic Update by August 25 or later (rather than August 16, as planned).

Who's back? Ed's Back!

Who's back? Ed's Back! 06/12/2004 03:44 PM
Ed's Back! Ed Broadbent was the most successful leader in the history of Canada's New Democratic Party, leading the NDP to win 43 seats in the 1988 federal election. Now Ed's back, and he's running for under new leader Jack Layton -- with video! (.rm, .mov, .wmv formats) Canadian hip-hop will never be the same. Is this the future of Canadian politics?

Time To Back Up Your Back Ups

Time To Back Up Your Back Ups 09/01/2004 06:24 AM
Wasn't Jack Valenti just telling us that DVDs last forever? Maybe not. As many people are now learning, digital media has a pretty rapid decay rate. The latest to discover this was a reporter who, five years ago or so, had fallen for that old (har har) "paperless office" gag that has been pulled before. He bought a CD-RW and scanned in all sorts of stuff (including photos and old articles he'd written) -- and then made the fatal mistake: he tossed out the original copies. Glad to have the filing space back, he proceeded to shove the CDs on a shelf somewhere and forget about them for years... until now. Partly out of curiosity, he pulled out these backup CDs, put them in his CD drive and discovered the wonders of Windows error messages. He begins to wonder (uh oh) what will this mean for all the CDs and DVDs he's been paying good money for over the years. It would be nice if he could back them all up, perhaps multiple times to various different storage media, but the entertainment industry isn't real keen on that idea, seeing as they're actively stompin g out those who try to help you save your own digital files.

Google may buy back IPO shares: Google
has said it may be forced to buy back
shares sold

Google may buy back IPO shares: Google
has said it may be forced to buy back
shares sold 08/14/2004 04:48 PM
NDTV Aug 14 2004 7:00PM GMT

"Back-to-Iraq" bl0gger is back in Iraq

"Back-to-Iraq" bl0gger is back in Iraq 05/20/2004 05:43 PM
Clive sez: "Chris Allbritton has begun blogging from Iraq. He's the writer who raised $13,000 last year from his blog readers to fund an indie-reporting trip to Iraq during the war. His readers have asked him to go back, and he raised another $11,000 in the last few months. He just arrived in Baghdad, and has begun writing more of his excellent stuff -- slices of everyday life in one of the most fraught places on earth. The first post describes the crazily harrowing landing you have to endure when you fly into Baghdad, as the plane corkscrews down to avoid shoulder-mounted missiles:"

After a normal flight, we went into a tight, corkscrew dive that sent your stomach up into your throat — and in the case of two passengers, out their mouths and into their laps. It’s a vomit-comet experience. But if you like roller coasters in a sealed container where you can’t really see anything, it’s a lot of fun. Just don’t think about the very real threat of shoulder-mounted SAMs.

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WWE Goes Back to the USA

WWE Goes Back to the USA 04/05/2005 03:08 PM
WWE returns to its old stomping grounds -- the USA cable network.

Back to Bed

Back to Bed 12/11/2003 07:23 AM
I woke up from my "nap" at 2:30am. It had been 6 hours. After watching an episode of Ed (thanks, Tivo) and catching up on a bit of e-mail, it's time for some NyQuil and going back to bed. I don't know who I got Cold version 2.0 from at work, but it's really annoying. Ugh. I guess the porn star update will wait another day. (I'm surprised that nobody has commented on that. Actually, I'm slightly amused by it.)...

Back from the RNC

Back from the RNC 09/08/2004 11:59 PM

Back from the RNC, and I sure am glad to be back on the west coast. It was great to see some old friends (and make some new ones) while out in NYC, getting the new Politics site a workout was exciting, and working with CNN was a joy - those folks are real pros, but it is great to be back at home.

There were lots of bloggers over in the blogger's alley that the RNC provided in the Felt Forum outside of the main convention hall. Here's a picture of some of the bloggers at the alley interviewing Ari Fleisher, former Press Secretary for the current administration. Click on the picture to see a larger version.

sue them back

sue them back 02/19/2004 08:05 AM
full story

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Go back toward your behind

Go back toward your behind 08/16/2004 06:27 PM
Hall of technical documentation weirdness

And We're Back!!

And We're Back!! 09/02/2004 12:59 AM
After a long hiatus, Blogzilla is back.

Back-End 0.7.0.2

Back-End 0.7.0.2 12/09/2003 06:07 PM
A flexible, multi-lingual, template driven CMS.
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