I read up and caught up on a lot of things today. One of them was, 9rules is another great network that really has great authors. I wish I knew some of them!
Another was, for setting up my own network, pN (the Philotic Network), I needed to figure out a way to easily setup blogs for new authors and manage them. WordPress, which is the greatest blogging software, is a little limited in that area. The WordPress MU version only works under sub-domains or sub-directories, and it doesn’t offer the main author as much control over the blog as an author of a MovableType installation would.
MovableType’s only two feature I like, is it’s permissions settings, and it’s ability to host multiple blogs on different domains (including sub-domains and sub-directories).
Unlike WP where there’s different levels, MT lets you check and un-check different permissions per an author. This is great where you want someonet to be able to manage the template and create posts, but not be able to change the settings of the site.
Paul Scrivens from 9rules has written a pretty good MT vs. WP comparison, but he leans more towards MT.
Right now I’m going to stick with WP, and I’m looking forward to a much better release of WP-MU. And I’ll be setting up other blogs with two admins (the author being the main one, and me being the 2nd one). Any suggestions on this are welcome!
I'm not finished with the design of my blog quite yet, please hold on while I fix the comments, archives, and search templates.
June 19th, 2006 at 11:46 AM
That’s pretty cool. I have a friend on my blogroll who just got on 9 rules. My computer is broken. I can still use it kinda but its acting crazy. I just finished reformatting it for the second time and it still doesn’t work. I think it must be either the hardware or one of the network drivers, possibly the video driver.