SixApart just announced some great new features to TypePad, their hosted weblog service:
“Weblog owners now have the option to turn on default comment moderation for all posts made to any of their weblogs. With comment moderation turned on, new comments will not be visible to the public until they have been approved by the owner.”
I’ve already played with some of these new features on my blog and they work really well. It also has a cool comment preview feature where you can read comments without clicking to go anywhere — very useful in getting rid of spam.