Blogging is an amazing paradigm. I’ve spent some time exploring the various and sundry devices available to bloggers, they are truly amazing! And the best part of it is that MoveableType enables it all like nothing else I’ve seen.
Those krazy kats Ben & Mena have created an astounding piece of software. The really nice thing about moveable type is how full featured it is, with pings, trackbacks, etc… It makes for a true distributed publishing system that supports community involvement. For so long it appeared that the independant software developer was dead and these two have really put together something special.
Particularly nice is that these two have gotten decent funding and are starting out on a new endeavour called Typepad. I really wish them well. It appears to be a hosted blogging service much like blogger, the granddaddy of blogging and still a great service!
Back to moveable type. This thing is my favorite piece of software right now. Its extensibility is really nice. Check out MTAmazon. Its basically a plugin that cross-references your Amazon Affiliate account. It does some extremely interesting things.
For a full directory I suggest mt-plugins to find lots of plugins that do cool things…