A quick announcement: in another week or so I'll be joining Six Apart as VP, Product.
I've been doing personal web publishing in various forms and methods for going on nine years now -- while doing daytime things like managing products, going to school, consulting, building email progams and advising a few startups. Stating the Obvious and sippey.com have enabled me to find a voice, float ideas, build new friendships and experiment with the tools that empower individuals and teams to share and spread ideas and information.
It's not every day that you're given the opportunity to turn your after work passion into your full time job. I couldn't be more excited to join Mena, Ben, Barak, Anil, Andrew, Ezra, Paul, Mie and the rest of the crew at Six Apart.
(Yee haw!)
Now you have to get them to incorporate wiki features! Congrats!
http://www.sippey.com/cgi-bin/fragment.cgi?TextManagement
Posted by: Bill Seitz | Aug 05, 2004 at 01:06 PM
Ah, no wonder you moved your site back to typepad. Congrats.
Posted by: kf | Aug 05, 2004 at 01:34 PM
This is fantastic news. I'm happy for you, Michael, and for Six Apart, but most of all, as a user of TypePad (personal site) and Movable Type (at work, yeehaw!), I am happy for me.
Posted by: Dinah | Aug 05, 2004 at 01:40 PM
Congratulations, Michael. This is well-deserved, in my mind.
Posted by: Geof | Aug 05, 2004 at 02:33 PM
Congrats, Michael. Well deserved indeed. Now I'm really expecting great things from 6A.
Posted by: Joshua Kaufman | Aug 05, 2004 at 02:47 PM
You said "yee haw" and now it's in the public record!
Posted by: bryan | Aug 05, 2004 at 02:50 PM
Congrats!
Posted by: Ross Mayfield | Aug 05, 2004 at 04:13 PM
Congratulations from Tokyo!
Posted by: Gen Kanai | Aug 05, 2004 at 06:11 PM
That's great. I read about you on Loic's blog. He wrote a piece about Muniwireless.com, my MT blog that does not look like a blog. It's a great product by the way. You need to get more people to realize they can start a publishing and consulting business with it, as I have done.
Posted by: Esme Vos | Aug 05, 2004 at 09:52 PM
congrats, you deserter you.
Posted by: judith | Aug 06, 2004 at 09:25 AM
Congrats!
Posted by: .sara | Aug 06, 2004 at 11:51 AM
Now maybe you can save typepad. Too expensive, too slow, doomed. It's a rip off.
Good luck.
Posted by: daniel | Aug 07, 2004 at 10:23 AM
Sippey, very cool!
Posted by: FKSCHE | Aug 07, 2004 at 12:37 PM
Congrats. I hope you give them a kick in the ass
Posted by: Cliff | Aug 07, 2004 at 03:03 PM
Congrats. They are lucky to have you.
Posted by: Cliff | Aug 07, 2004 at 03:04 PM
Hey, that's great news! More proof of SixApart's great taste!
Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | Aug 12, 2004 at 06:12 AM