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Pro.

Evan Williams (who, for all intents and purposes, is Pyra/Blogger now) demoed a preview version of Blogger Pro at a Weblogger Interest Group meeting in Mountain View, Calif., last night (notes here and here), and a lot of the features have been a long time coming: post titles, editable date/time, upload images, broadcast via email, multiple blogs. Those same features—plus a robust comment system and much more—are already part of Movable Type version 1.4, and version 2.0 promises even more.

In a roundabout way, the debut of Blogger Pro made me realize how great MT is, and how much work Ben and Mena Trott have put into it. I’ve got several blogs running now on my one MT install—yankiwi and eabos, to name two—and others in the works, including this site. We’re in the process of using MT to set up a system to show comps to clients and get feedback. That’s only a fraction of the capabilities of the system.

Blogger is a great choice for beginners, and it completely blew me away the first time I saw it. But I’m hooked on Movable Type, and today I became one of the many users who’ve sent in a donation to support further development. And that felt good.

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6 Responses to “Pro.”

  1. Sekimori Says:
    January 23rd, 2002 at 8:06 pm

    Regarding MT…a friend and I run a fiction writers site and were wondering if MT could be used/adapted to allow feedback on submissions?

    Thanks!

  2. Todd Says:
    January 23rd, 2002 at 9:58 pm

    I don’t see why not. Each entry (which essentially could be a story submission) can take comments, if that’s what you’re thinking about.

  3. Mike Says:
    January 23rd, 2002 at 10:02 pm

    Absolutely — you could modify the comments system to accept feedback, save it in the database and email a copy to you, but not display it to site visitors. And because you can have MT publish using multiple templates, you could even publish those comments to a password-protected area of your site so that you could control who views them.

  4. Sekimori Says:
    January 24th, 2002 at 12:40 am

    Thanks guys! (sigh) One more program to learn…

  5. Mena Says:
    January 24th, 2002 at 10:03 pm

    Mike — very good suggestion on how to do that trick — boy those MT developers have got one robust system ;)

  6. Todd Says:
    January 24th, 2002 at 10:09 pm

    Where on earth could you encounter such clever people? I wonder… ;)