The company behind one of the weblog world’s most popular tools is preparing to launch a new service which will attack market leaders Blogger.com head on. SixApart, the company behind the Movable Type weblogging system, is to lanch a new “hosted” service called TypePad later this year.
Like its rival, Blogger, the new system will be stored along with the user’s writing on a central server. This means that, for the first time, budding webloggers who want to use Movable Type - regarded as the one of the most powerful weblog-building systems - will not have to hire server space from hosting companies. Nor will they need to go through the sometimes difficult processes required to install the Movable Type system on their server.
It is expected that there will be three tiers of pricing, with varying levels of features and complexity. Pricing will be officially announced in May, with a public beta (or test) version being launched in June.
The TypePad website is here.
Kill your blog
A travel editor for a Connecticut newspaper out of Hartford has been told to kill his blog.
The Virus of Lies
I linked up to the secrecy of the Chinese government earlier this week and received this article link from a friend this afternoon. Will SARS be the Chinese Chernobyl?
What happens when a government lies to it’s people, and they start finding out?
The article above gives some pretty reasonable indicators. And given the fleeing and panic buying in Bejiing today, the lid is starting to come off.
Today was a busy, errand, running around day. Got to chat with some people, and I’m not surprised at the anger and dismissal toward our government. After the obigatory weather comments, we segued easily into the hot topic around here. SARS.
People are not happy with the squawking of the Canadian government, (small sampling - I only talked to six strangers and a few friends) but to a man, they can call hypocrisy when they see it.
So, why did The WHO issue a travel advisory to Toronto?
The population of Bejiing alone is almost a third of the population of Canada.
There are so many unknowns, with this virus and with the consequences of Chinese government’s decisions. In the weeks to come, this behemoth of a country may have to take steps towards openess it’s people have barely dreamed of.
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The “kill your blog” story hit close to home. I’m not sure which is more dangerous - to have a commentary kind of weblog or a personal journal blog. The first is, of course, more obviously a potential conflict of interest. The second could be considered simply unprofessional! Eek!
The mismanagement of the West Nile Virus in Ontario led the government to attempt to make up for that mistake by attempting to contain SARS. They say they have it under control. The World Health Organization wants to continue to keep a lid on it and issued a travel advisory to Toronto.
How arrogant of Canadian officials to think they have the right to protest that advisory. It is even more arrogant to think they can contain something so elusive as a virus. In the end, I think Canadians have far more to fear with the West Nile virus, the economic impact of trying to control that virus will be much much greater and the number of lives lost to West Nile higher. I agree, the average Canadian is not impressed with our governments response to WHO’s advisory. We doth “protest too much”.