Breaking out of their "summer schedule" previously published, the fine folks over on A List Apart have published a new story about a different kind of weblog service.

TypePad is a personal publishing service that combines easy tools for creating weblogs, photo blogs, photo albums, and all the other pieces of a full-featured personal website with hosting and maintenance and updates of the software. Because the whole system is designed to work by just signing up and diving in, we’re anticipating it being extremely popular with beginners, but it will range in features all the way up to its highest tier, which includes nearly all of Movable Type’s functionality, except for the ability to customize the application’s code.

No, it's not really about the service, it's more about the adherence to web standards than anything else. Based on the popular movabletype CMS system, this new service promises to make the blogging world a cleaner place.