It began as a love movement; the shared dream of a husband and wife to help more of the world find its voice. It has since given hundreds of thousands millions of people a substantial tool for sharing their thoughts and for connecting to others. I know there’s probably no real way to quantify this, but here goes: it has inspired developers to create better software while simultaneously challenging the notion that ‘better software’ automatically equals less accessible (and more expensive) software. It’s the content management system that runs the show up in here and the one that I recommend to everyone who asks me. It’s Movable Type. I went from hand-coding my site to LiveJournal to Blogger (and calling it a ‘blog’ like everybody else) to ending up with the cream of the crop.
So, thank you Mena and Ben (and Anil and Brad and Jay and Barak and Loic and Joi and everyone at Six Apart who makes it possible)! Thank you for inspiring me in so many different ways. I’m about to embark on what I believe to be a wonderful new moment in my career as a web designer, but my dream job is still to be speaking Portuguese one day as part of Six Apart Brasil … *sigh!*
