Further thoughts on Movable Type

More MT thoughts: A few people have asked why I'm not regularly enabling comments on posts here, even though Movable Type makes it simple to do.

Essentially, I'm not interested in running a bulletin board or online community around Must See HTTP. Too many of my friends have had their spare time and karma sucked away by becoming de facto moderators of their own websites and I simply have no inclination to follow them. Further, very little of what I post here really invites discussion and, if you have something you simply must say to me, there's always good, old fashioned e-mail to accomplish that.

I will be turning on comments for posts, mainly calls for information, for which I do wish to actively solicit feedback. As I've often said, readers of The BradLands are among the smartest, most creative and best looking folks on the web. Seldom have I posed a question that wasn't answered shortly and completely by The BradLands Braintrust.

Also, some folks have noted that my switch to Movable Type represents my abandonment of hand-coding this website. In point of fact, although the entire site was originally done by hand, I've had stints with Blogger, Userland Frontier, and Radio Userland and, although Movable Type now drives this weblog and The Daily Brad, vast tracts of the site continue to rely on those applications, as well as ol' reliable BBEdit and my meager knowledge of HTML.

Meanwhile, a few thoughtful folks have recently published their experiences in using Movable Type to publish types of content outside the traditional weblog model. While these shoehorn approaches aren't suited for most of the sites I administer (of which this personal toss-off is only one), I do have one or two little projects that will benefit from this accumulated wisdom.

• Matt Haughey: Beyond the Blog
• Brad Choate: Doing your whole site with MT
• Doug Bowman: Rebuilding a Portfolio

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