Welcome to the newest version of Compendium

Compendium's now being published with Moveable Type.

OK, OK, so this makes it the fourth tool I've used in roughly a year to put out this blog. But this one, I think, is a keeper. It seems really stable (long-time sufferers, um, readers, may recall how I seemed happy with Radio until its database went kablooie one day). It let's us publish multiple Weblogs through a single administrative console and it supports a simple workflow. Weblogs are multiplying like rabbits around here (we've already got three, with more on the way), so suddenly scalability is important (Greymatter, which I used until this morning, is great because it's so easy to set up and use, as long as you only have one Weblog and you don't work at a place that has actual editors who might want to proofread items first). And it's server based - important when you have reporters posting from trade shows, where they might not have access to their own computers (which rules out the client-based Radio).

Plus, you can now comment directly on individual postings. Gone, alas, is the old "karma" system, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I could never tell if a negative vote on an item meant you thought the thing the item was about was dumb or if I was dumb for even posting about it. Now you can remove all uncertainty by speaking out.