For example, a TypePad profile is able to display the user's status on the microblogging service Twitter and display a list of the person's latest comments across TypePad blogs. "Now as a blogger you can give your readers a meaningful profile ... It's all about helping to connect the bloggers with their readers and with other bloggers in a more substantial way." Six Apart is also adding a new system for managing and monitoring blog comments that has a control panel interface and features things like e-mail notifications of replies to comments, as well as the ability to reply via e-mail.
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