The news that Typepad is shutting down raised some eyebrows in my corner of the internet. Typepad was a bit of a niche service, but it was an interesting attempt at both democratizing and monetizing blogging. While it’s sad that it’s going away—I am anti-linkrot, and “your account will be permanently deactivated” is quite hostile to web permanency—it’s also interesting to me that it hung on this long.
With a little digging I found my own Typepad blog (I knew I had to have tried it out) at ideapad.typepad.com. I made two posts in the mid-2000s, eighteen months apart, both quick hits and promptly forgotten. Not really worth shoving that into the Wayback Machine, but here’s a screenshot for posterity.
