updates to blogging platforms

Congratulations to Ben and Mena Trott, who are SixApart, the people behind Moveable Type which powers this site, have got funding and are launching a new hosting service called Typepad. Ben Hammersley got the scoop and wrote about it in The Guardian. TypePad will be perfect for those people who want to blog, but want more than blogger offers and can't be faffed with setting up their own server or learning linux, it should make for less geeky writing and even more widespread RSS feeds too, (I've already got 111).
Though as Tom Coates notes, there is a new blogger coming. Screen shots and a preview are linked from the site.
Finally NetNewsWire should be public beta 1.02 next week, look at the end of the post. Congrats to Brent for getting the award too.