Blogging mood

Loic Le Meur, Executive Vice President and General Manager of the blog platform company SixApart in Europe, who came to Russia last week to promote TypePad, seemed unprepared for the fact that LiveJournal and Sup dominate the interest of Russian users. Le Meur believes that LiveJournal only makes money from paying users and users of advanced accounts where sponsors can place unobtrusive advertisements. Le Meur knew nothing about office construction projects along Moscow's Sadovoye Koltso, or Garden Ring Road. He explained this by saying that he is not directly involved with Russia, as SixApart will promote its products in the Russian market only via its partners. One of the services, LiveJournal.com, is now co-managed by the Internet company Sup. Meanwhile, TypePad has been handed over to PPE Group (specifically to Weblog Russia), which has the exclusive right to market the platform within the CIS.