Mashable.com is reporting blogging pioneer Typepad.com’s parent company Six Apart has been acquired by VideoEgg, a video ad networking company.

Yet another sign of TypePad’s demise? Well apparently so according to the latest Mashable.com reader survey of bloggers’ preferences in which an overwhelming majority prefer WordPress to Typepad as a blogging platform.

What’s not so clear right now is what will TypePad evolve into? The smart guys at Mashable.com opine:

SAY Media says that it will continue to support Movable Type and TypePad, but forgive us if we’re skeptical that will last. The new entity is clearly focused on building out a new-age advertising network, not on building out a blogging platform to compete with WordPress or Tumblr.

From what we’ve seen before, we bet it won’t take long for resources to be allocated towards the advertising network and away from Movable Type. It will be the beginning of the degradation of a platform that has already lost much of its relevance, despite hosting The Huffington Post and major blogs from ABC, the BBC and others.

The good news is that WordPress, the blogging platform for OutLoudBlogs.com, is clearly the consumer’s choice and is not going anywhere for a long time.

In light of Blogger’s recent treatment of gay themed blogs and the demise of TypePad, is there anything out there better than WordPress for GLBT bloggers?

So tell all of your gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender blogging buddies to skooch on over to the only open, free to join, gay blogging community on the web.