Movable Type Developer Edition was announced several days ago and caused an immediate stink because of new pricing schemes. Six Apart was really quite stupid — they didn’t clarify everything and went with a licensing scheme that even they probably didn’t understand. Apparently, they’ve lost a lot of users because of this stunt. Now, I run this blog on Movable Type 2.661, and never intend to upgrade, so this doesn’t affect me. I do say that they could have handled the issue so much better than they did. It was unprofessional and potentially costly in terms of their user loyalty.

Luckily, I simply don’t care. The new features that MT 3.0 introduces aren’t things I need. Even if they were, I qualify as a personal blog (one author, one blog).

In other news, it’s Google’s corporate blog!

Interesting. I must admit, I find Google very appealing business-wise — it’s unorthodox, to say the least, and that’s a good thing. It should be nice to see how they work out this blog stuff. As C|Net puts it, it’s a blog that’s “somewhat less than bloggy“. For some reason, that headline conjures up the phrase “let’s get jiggy with it”. I’ve always hated that phrase.

There was also an article on ZDNet recently about the SoBig and MyDoom viruses and how they succeeded because of greed. A related article, also from ZDNet, covers AOL’s field testing of a program called SPF, or “Sender Permitted From”, a form of authentication for e-mail that ensures that the sender of an e-mail really exists. This has really interesting implications for users of e-mail, and, from my perspective, is badly needed. Now if some other people would jump on the bandwagon…