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Happy Monday, folks! The biggest Movable Type-related news this week was the release of TypePad Connect, a service from Six Apart that combines a Disqus-style comment system with MyBlogLog-like profiles. TypePad profiles extend the existing TypeKey service and allow you to connect it with your other social networking sites, turning it into a lifestream of sorts. TypePad comments supports OpenID login and has TypePad anti-spam built in. TypePad Connect will integrate with any MT blog, and it works with other blogging systems as well. More features are on the way, including the ability to import comments into your existing comment system. I'll admit, I've never personally seen a need for a hosted commenting system like this, but Disqus has become quite popular, and now 6A is entering the market. Have you had any experience with one of these systems? Let us know in the comments. Plugins vpod.tv - Six Apart Europe announced the release of a plugin that integrates vpod.tv into your MT blog.

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NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal is the latest in the celebrity line of spokesperson's for Twitter. As the story goes, he started tweeting since someone was impersonating him on Twitter, and he is obviously enjoying himself: "Somebody out there was trying to use my language and trying to speak for me," O'Neal, sounding more amused than offended, said Wednesday night in a telephone interview. "Rather than have that happen, I thought I'd do it myself." Check out the good natured fake Shaq tweets that started it all, and follow Shaq himself if you're into his funky way of dishing out words. Naturally, you should also follow the Blog Herald on Twitter. Hat tip, Silicon Alley Insider and Twitter blog. Possibly Related PostsMark Evans Launches TwitterratiInterview: Darren Rowse on TwiTipWill Twitter Suffer from Post-Election Hangover?

Offworld is the latest blog in the Boing Boing network, and it is all about computer and videogames. Edited by Brandon Boyer, a familiar name for some of us that used to hail the Edge mag, it is bound to be something interesting. At least I hope so, and Boyer's welcome post promises a lot: As Offworld lifts off over the coming weeks and months, I'll be bringing to it a focus on the overlooked, the underappreciated, the rise of the independents and, in general, the games that are bringing genuine excitement and innovation (in both gameplay and design) to the industry. Focusing on the indie games is a nice call if you ask me. There's a lot of games developed by small studios out there, some are crap, some decent, and a few pretty innovating. That doesn't mean that Offworld won't cover your average EA title and the latest Guitar Hero installation. The blockbusters will get their fair share as well, which is all well and good I guess. Not that Offworld would have much of a choice, if they

A recent post on Mashable regarding a tool called WordPress Direct elicited a great deal of passion on both sides. One commenter, for example, called the service a "one stop shop spam blog engine" while another, who claims to have used the service, said it was "a simple solution to adding new posts to a blog in between longer, hand written posts". But what is clear is that tools like WordPress Direct are becoming more and more common. Part of the double-edged nature of open source development is that, while most will use the license to extend the product in healthy ways, a few will do so in ways that can be used for unethical purpose. Though this is not an argument against open source, more and more tools like WordPress Direct have sprung up, often charging high monthly fees for "maintenance free" blogging. But what does WordPress Direct do and is it a spam tool? The answer is complicated and made more so by the fact that the nature of spam and even the definition of spam is a moving t

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