Automattic to offer hosted forums?

Matt Mullenweg, Automattic head honcho and creator of WordPress, mentioned a new forum software in an article over at the Houston Chronicle TechBlog (via Blogging Pro). The new piece of software is called TalkPress (for now at least, see this bbPress forum thread), and will co-exist with bbPress.

The Pownce Developer: Interviewing Leah Culver

With Pownce finally going public, it seemed like a great idea to interview the lead developer, Leah Culver. She had a lot of interesting things to say for sure.

The Universal Template for Movable Type 4.1

In a move to make it easier to create websites, Movable Type 4.1 sports a new Universal Template. David Peralty is impressed, personally I’d say it’s a user friendly theme but nothing more than that. Movable Type 4.1 itself looks great though. Check out the screencast and see for yourself.

WordPress dominates Technorati Top 100, Movable Type second

CMSWire have been looking into what the Technorati Top 100 sites are using to power their words, and WordPress is a whopping victor at 34%. Second is Movable Type with 16%. Check out the full report here, with a hat tip to the WordPress Publishing Blog.

Digg updates algorithm

Using a group of Diggers to reach the front page of Digg? Those days are over, if Kevin Rose is to be believed:
[...] Digg’s promotional algorithm ensures that the most popular content dugg by a diverse, unique group of diggers reaches the home page.
Sounds like a good idea to me, but others may disagree.