Welcome plugs

Six Apart has named its Plug-in contest winners for MT3.0:

1. Jay Allen‘s MTBlacklist 2.0. The 1.x product is sine qua non in the blogging world, and the screen shots of the newest version look like it kicks ass.
2. Two prizes, Andrew Sutherland‘s KoalaRainbow visualizing tool and Tim Appne‘s Xsearchplus, which allows alternate search engines to be plugged into MT.

3. Three winners here: David Raynes‘s MultiBlog, which lets you nest blogs in the side-bar, etc.; John Gruber‘s Markdown, an intriguing-sounding plain-text-markup-to-XHTML utility; and Chad Everett‘s Notifier, which provides blog subscriptions and security.

Of these, only MTBlacklist is one I’m familiar with, though some of the others could be of future use. Nicely done, folks, and congrats to all. It all makes MT3 look like a more solid eventuality for me.