I have three news items for you today. Not bad for mid-December.

• Movable Type has gone open source. Six Apart announced its intention to take the blogging platform open in June, or at least to create an open source version. with the release of a fully open source MT, users now have complete ability to modify and redistribute the blogging platform. Here’s hoping that an open source MT will encourage the development of blog themes, add-ons, and other tools from developers.
• Zune Insider (the blog written by Zune Marketplace podcast honcho Rob Greenlee, reports that the service is back online after a planned update that was done yesterday. Doesn’t look as if the update added any podcast-specific features.
• The Scoble rumor is mostly true. He told a Le Web audience, (and later blogged) that he will leave PodTech on January 14. He says he’s weighing options for his future employment, and that the rumored move to Fast Company is one of these. Scoble’s explanation of his reasons for leaving PodTech was not written in corporate speak per se, but it might as well have been. There was a lot about “working with the new management”, “change in focus” etc., which you can read for yourself.

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