The news that the makers of MovableType are launching a better posting/publishing tool is good news indeed. (Here’s their press release.)
The investment they’ve received from Neoteny is also good news, as is their hiring of Anil Dash, who really gets this stuff.
More and more I sense that the tools of self-publishing are reaching the kind of critical mass, and quality, that will soon enable regular folks do turn the web into the read-write place it always should have been.
Later today I’m giving a talk as the phenomenon relates to journalism. I keep having to change the slides; that’s how fast things are moving.