SAY, Goodbye to Six Apart I stopped working at Six Apart over a year ago. At the time, I didn’t blog about it because the departure was completely amicable and I knew I wasn’t sure what...
Communities of Creators Last week, I found this picture of a group dinner at Guero’s restaurant in Austin, TX, taken during South by Southwest in 2002. At the time, most of us...
Then You Evolve I’d forgotten to mention it yesterday, but as a number of people have asked, I had a nice little quote in the New York Times yesterday, talking about Wal-Mar...
The LOL Street Journal What makes lolcats appealing is that it’s simultaneously obscure and accessible. It’s an inside joke told in an online lingua franca, but with a bit of effor...
Meet up at PodCamp? Are you in New York for the PodCamp NYC conference ? Well, I’ll be there representing Six Apart and if you’re podcasting with Movable Type, TypePad, LiveJourn...
Find me on Beet.TV Andy Plesser of Beet.TV stopped by our offices at Six Apart a few weeks ago, and I had the chance to talk to him for a few minutes. Andy recorded the conversat...
What I do for a living One of the most common questions I get from people who know about Six Apart is “What the hell do you actually do there?” These days, that question’s easier...
Hooray Blogs! I usually don’t do overt plugs for work stuff on my personal blog, but I’m pretty excited about a small event we’re doing here in San Francisco. It’s the first...
Squee! Back when I first joined Six Apart, the main thing that made me really believe in what we did was that I saw that blogs could change people’s lives for the bet...
Do you love words? I sure do love words. And even better, my friends do too. So they make great websites and books about it. Mark made Neologasm , which I am very partial to bec...
Web 2.0 Overload Hooray Web 2.0 Originally uploaded by torrez . Andre posted this Nascar-style assemblage of Web 2.0 company logos. Though there’s a number of grea...
Interview with Niall Just a quick note, Niall Kennedy has posted the conversation he and I had on Friday on his blog. It’s available as both text and an MP3/podcast if you don’t...
It's Good To Have Friends What was that about how people are emotional about the social software they use? Today was a pretty rough day, with a long painful downtime for TypePad, and I...
Blogging Through History Yeah, I love blogs and all that stuff. But the real reason I love working at Six Apart is that sometimes we get to do stuff that’s actually funny. If Bl...
Blogdex is 0wn3d Right now, eight of the top ten links on blogdex are about Six Apart and LiveJournal. We’re like the Usher and Alicia Keys of the Blogdex Top Ten. Huge! To...
Still chugging along I’m still in the process of doing some reworking of my blog here, but if you’re interested in a lot of the blog-tech-related posts I put up on my Daily Links o...
high concept parody I have all these high-concept ideas for sites that I never get around to building. One of them was going to be an anonymous parody of myself, a big purple blog...
I Work for Six Apart A few weeks ago, I had started an entry with the phrase, "Though I work in the weblog industry…" and I had done so mainly as a tongue-in-cheek joke...
Six Apart buys a fax machine It seems like the next big piece of weblog news is going to be about Six Apart buying a fax machine . Though I guess they’re to be commended for their brave s...
Microsoft's Weblog Software Picture the following scenario: Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It’s browser-accessible from any...