Chris Alden may have been the reason Six Apart acquired Rojo. He became the general manager of Movable Type; MT4 came out about a month ago.
Today, Six Apart announced that Chris will replace Barak Berkowitz as CEO and Chair. Congratulations to Chris, who wrote today that “Six Apart matters… to millions upon millions of people who use it to communicate… about virtually every area of significant human endeavor.”
Om Malik and Michael Arrington are among those who implicitly agree with Chris that Six Apart matters. Each of them has already posted about the appointment. But they described the firm rather differently. Is it a blogging software giant or a blogging infrastructure startup? At least they can agree about the blogging part…