Six Apart, the company behind major commercial blogging platforms TypePad and Movable Type, has launched the Journalist Bailout Program, offering to provide free blogs to out-of-work media types. If you thought blogs were already free, you’re mostly right — sites like Blogger.com, LiveJournal and WordPress have long offered instant, cookie-cutter blogs to anyone with a … well, to anyone.
But the “Pro”-level membership Six Apart is giving out usually costs $150 a year, and comes with enough features and customer support to allay most technical worries — allowing the unemployed to concentrate on their real problems.
TypePad will cut you in on its ad program too. And though the program claims to feed its bloggers most of the revenue from any ads on their blogs, no one should expect to hear cash-register noises.
