New plugins for Movable Type!

A few months ago we tipped you all off on a big plugin directory update with fourteen new plugins many of which have been built upon the powerful Movable Type 3.2 architecture.

Today, we're writing to tell you about eight more useful additions as well as updates to two previously published ones. Below is a list of those plugins with descriptions written by the developers:

• Blacklist Connector for MT 3.2
  This plugin acts as a "connector" between MT-Blacklist and Movable Type 3.2, allowing to use Blacklist with MT 3.2. The connector assigns junk scores instead of deleting items.
• Webiki
  Wiki words for MovableType. Put a Wiki word in the keywords of a post and have the word auto-linked to that post in other posts. Also supports tags for enumerating Wiki words and posts with Wiki words.
• HMPassphrase
  Implements simple passphrase-based spam comment rejection
• GeoLocation
  Geo Location is a plug-in to enable blog entries to contain geo-location information. It is based on Yuri Takhteyev's entry location plugin. Geo Location is part of the Locative Blog project.
• DynamicSmartyPants
  Translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into "smart" typographic punctuation HTML entities in dynamic templates.
• The Socializer
  MT Socialize is a simple, one-tag plugin to allow easy interface to Pierre Far's Socializer Service, allowing you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems. Instead of having a link to each social bookmarking website, you have a single link to all of them!
• Lowdown
  Lowdown removes extra information to display plain text only. It converts certain high-ASCII characters (accented characters, etc) to low-ASCII characters, strips HTML tags, and changes line breaks to spaces. Similar to dirify but without the underscores, and usable for much longer blocks of text. This can be helpful when generating some types of feeds (eg. iCAL, RSS).
• FormatList
  FormatList is a plugin that makes it easy to create bulleted or numbered lists when creating or editing entries.
• CloudNine 2 (Update!)
  This plugin allows users to generate a weighted category cloud.
• MTGoogleMaps 3 (Update!)
  MTGoogleMaps is a plugin that enables you embed Google Maps in your weblog entries and templates.

As always we're excited to have these additions and the new functionality they add to what is already the most powerful and extensible blogging software application. If you have a plugin you'd like to let the world know about, submitting it to the Plugin directory is the best way to do that.

Finally, to all of the Professional Network developers who surprise us constantly with their level of ingenuity, creativity and talent: Thank you for making Movable Type a better for the rest of us.

UPDATE: Those of you who subscribe to the Plugin Directory feed will also be happy to know that the feed now contains ALL of the information found on the plugin entry page. Little steps towards perfection...