Moving Forward with Movable Type

As many of you who maintain public weblogs with Movable Type know, there's an increasing problem with comment spam on many weblogs, and we've discussed some of the ideas for how we'll be dealing with the problem in the future on our company weblog. While we're working on integrating these spam protection techniques into Movable Type and our recently-launched TypePad service, you can protect your site in the mean time by trying out Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist plugin, which is a clever solution to most common kinds of comment spamming, as well as being a great demonstration of the creative ways people are extending Movable Type through plugins.

Also, if you're interested in joining our team and helping out with creating and developing creative solutions to problems like these, you might be interested to know that Six Apart is hiring.