Dean Allen has a new pet project with the very nice name of Textbox (wish I had thought of it first — would be perfect for a blog). Textbox will be a web log hosting service running his own homegrown Textpattern system.

At the same time, Ben and Mena Trott, masterminds pulling the strings at Six Apart have announced a web log hosting service running their own Movable Type, which also is the system running my site if you’re new to the blogging thingie.

I sense a trend here.