With the rapid expansion of Six Apart -- the company responsible for Moveable Type and TypePad -- and their hiring of a handful of old-school, A-list bloggers, the perfectly natural assuption is that they're up to no good. And so the blogosphere -- never a group to be carried away by rumor or incomplete thinking -- is obligated subject them to a good, hard fisking.
Welcome to the First Annual Six Apart Crack-Pot Conspiracy Theory Contest!
In the comments below, post your theories about what nefarious plans -- obvious to anybody with eyes to see them -- Six Apart has for the blogosphere. Are the new hires expected to use their PageRank to pimp the company line? Are influential critics being silenced with a paycheck? Are open source developers being corraled into proprietary work? Will future versions of MT -- the software that powers Instapundit -- automatically alter posts to reflect the Trott's liberal bias?
Well, duh.
MT 4.0 isn't coded in perl, it's coded in baby's blood. The recent hires all have plenty of children, or of child-bearing age. Trust me, you'll see that MT 4.0 runs strong in about 9 months from now.
Posted on August 20, 2004 10:35 AM
Six...Apart. Think about it -- there are six industrialized continents.
Ben, Mena, and Anil plan to use Movable Type to drive a wedge between the SIX great land masses and drive them APART.
It's perfectly logical.
Posted on August 20, 2004 10:39 AM
The path to world domination?
First, hire all the bloggers...
Then, put an indelible link to Mena's weblog on every site...
Preparing her way for a congressional run on the way to the White House...
Where her SixApart transcontinental connections lead to the world's first blogocracy.
Posted on August 20, 2004 10:52 AM
Hiring all the bloggers puts SixApart in secret control of the economy.
Posted on August 20, 2004 10:53 AM
Cute is just to get us to lower our guard. Then comes the Mena - the perfume.
Posted on August 20, 2004 10:56 AM
I have not yet seen the full scale of the plan but I do know for a fact that it includes stealth dirigibles, ninja assassins and fruit smoothies. No dark plan is complete without invoking the ultimate force for evil and destruction on this earth. That's right... Peter Cetera! Once he's been acquired/invoked/trapped by the dark ones, their diabolical plan will be set in motion. Fear for your souls...
Speaking of evil.. the labels on this comment form don't render in Safari so you're shooting blind when trying to submit the form.
Posted on August 20, 2004 11:09 AM
The better question is why Mena is wearing a raver necklace in that Dean picture.
And also why the submit buttons on this form have absolutely no labels in Safari.
Posted on August 20, 2004 6:16 PM
You poor doomed-to-die fools! The answer has been in front of your eyes from the beginning. "Mena Trott" was no doubt constructed by those unfamiliar with human names. And that silly company name: "Six Apart" was obviously chosen to complete the anagram of the true nature of our doom.
Mena Trott Six Apart = A TAMPA SENT TORTRIX
Any fool can see that a master race of moths from Tampa is bent on taking over the minds of bloggers. It's too late for most of you. You probably spend hours communing with your Movabletype overlords. But they won't get me. I use Typepad.
Posted on August 20, 2004 7:27 PM
If I were in the United States, I'd worry much more about Six Apart Europe (they even have the nerves to use EXPROPRIATE USA as their company name, albeit as an anagram).
Posted on August 21, 2004 2:33 AM
Phil: "At Six Apart, everything is under control."
Posted on August 21, 2004 4:04 AM
Have you ever seen Mena and Bill Gates in the same room at the same time?
Come to think of it, have you ever wondered if Tim O'Reilly and Bill O'Reilly are really identical twins?
Posted on August 21, 2004 7:28 AM
It's clearly another Illuminati plot. Or the Freemasons. Or bunnies.
Posted on August 21, 2004 8:17 AM
Clearly this is a conspiracy to set six apart from the Swift Boats Vets. By selecting six members at a time in a divide and conquer method you hope to use their celebrity to advertise your blogsphere.
Posted on August 21, 2004 9:45 AM
In the anagrams of "mean trott" you'll find the answer:
http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=menatrott
NET TO TRAM
Yep, the end-game for Six Apart is to convert the entire inter(net) (in)to a tram. In a couple years, when you suddenly can't get email or post to a blog anymore, you'll find something replaced it.
Monorail!
What's that sound?
Monorail!
What's Six Apart going to build?
Monrail! Monorail! Monorail!
Posted on August 21, 2004 4:25 PM
Mena is a Sith Lord. Lance, come over to the Dark Side.
Posted on August 22, 2004 1:01 PM
I just cancelled my typepad account and gave them back their brain chip. I just couldn't handle the midnight 6 dimensional transwarp parties.
It's just scary that they not only want to inhabit your soul, they want to do so at light-speed.
Demanding buggers.
Posted on August 23, 2004 5:41 PM
Isn't Joi Ito hanging around this cabal so he can have anil sex with Mena on the sly?
After all, he's gotta get something for his money.
Posted on August 29, 2004 7:32 PM
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