I was reading Anil Dash’s post today about the launch of Moveable Type 4. My blog life was born using the Moveable Type Platform. At the time I began blogging, I was of the opinion that MT was the one and only platform for me. It was the choice of many of the top bloggers and had many features that I wanted. When I buy things I do lots of research and checking things out then make my decision based upon my findings. This is what I did when choosing my blogging platform.

Along came WordPress and I heard some great things about that platform. Contributing to a number of blogs over the years, I have seen many different applications, and once I used the WordPress system, I was sold. What was different from Moveable Type? To me it was more user friendly, and the most important reason was spam blocking. I was having a horrible time with Moveable Type’s spam blocking ability. I spent more time deleting spam comments and trackbacks than I was actually writing the posts and reading comments. WordPress was my answer to that problem.

Now Moveable Type has released its newest version of its application, Moveable Type 4. I wonder if they are as user friendly as WordPress and I also wonder about the widgets/plugins/features and whether they have the same coolness as WordPress. I waffled about maybe testing the MT4 Beta, and quickly looked through the site and saw the features offered by MT, and then I finished with the last navigation tab, “Pricing and Purchase”. I was able to quickly make my decision, because one word I did not see…FREE. Until MT decides to offer their application to us commercial users that are on a tight budget, I guess I will have to say that MT will never compete with WP.

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