Our newest Weblog: The Multimedia Exchange

Wherein Fusion Multimedia Editor Jason Meserve discusses the latest in multimedia and streaming technology.

The more blog-aware may notice that it's using Moveable Type. We'd been using Greymatter for blogs, because it's really easy to set up and use - oh, and free - but it doesn't scale well (basically, for each new Weblog, you need to install a new copy of the software and it hasn't been updated much in quite some time.

Moveable Type, in contrast, lets you set up and administer multiple Weblogs from a single "console," is updated regularly and has a large community of developers taking advantage of its plug-in architecture (one of the first plug-ins I'll install is one to let our authors add meta data, such as keywords, for our search engine to use). Equally important, MT has a simple workflow (postings have two states: "draft" and "publish") - our news editors want to start having Weblog postings go through an editing process just like the rest of our content. Look for me to move our other Weblogs (right now, this one and Keith Shaw's Cool Tools: Daily Dose) over to it.

This Perl app is $150 for commercial use. The authors only accept payments via PayPal, so, guys, that's why you haven't gotten any money from us yet - this is the first time in my life I've ever actually had to use that service and it takes several days to open an account.

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