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SixApart’s Mena and Ben Trott explain current problems with TypePad

by Debbie Weil | Oct 27, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized

Update (2 days later): SixApart’s CEO Barak Berkowitz provides more details. He posted his Message from the CEO to the TypePad blog and also sent it in an HTML email to customers:Dear Debbie,   As you might know, some of our users have been experiencing...

How do you know when you’re playing too rough in the blogosphere?

by Debbie Weil | Oct 26, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized

I dunno. It’s a feeling. It’s an invisible line. I came awfully close a few minutes ago… when I posted about recent problems with TypePad, SixApart’s hosted blogging service. I count several of 6A’s executives as friends and colleagues....

Listen up SixApart: some of your TypePad customers may switch

by Debbie Weil | Oct 26, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized

As I wrote here and here a few weeks ago, I’m one of thousands running a business blog on TypePad. The service has been excruciatingly slow of late. (Just now I thought I’d tear my hair out while waiting for this post to Save.) Sometimes it’s down...

Should you have to dirty your hands with the intricacies of blogging software?

by Debbie Weil | Oct 26, 2005 | New New Things, Stuff, Uncategorized

I gotta say that I’d run screaming the other way if I were a manager reading Andy Wibbels’ recent blog entry titled Blogging Cheatsheets. Andy offers four PDF downloads, each a mindmap illustrating in (terrifying) detail how to use the various features of...

Catching the Web 2.0 bug on WordBiz Report

by Debbie Weil | Oct 11, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized

OK, I admit it. Sometimes I latch on to the new new buzzword… and I’ve done it with Web 2.0. But honestly, I’m finding the concept fascinating. Here’s what I wrote in the current issue of my newsletter, WordBiz Report:In simple terms, Web 2.0...

Seth Godin and crew soft-launch Squidoo in viral Web 2.0 style

by Debbie Weil | Oct 11, 2005 | In the News, New New Things, Uncategorized

You gotta love it. Seth Godin and the smart crew he’s assembled have torn a page directly out of Seth’s books to soft-launch his new online company, Squidoo. No traditional PR, no advertising, just viral blogging via his new e-book, Everyone Is An Expert...
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