There’s a bit of sad irony to be found in their announcement, in that I have been using movabletype since the day it was made available, was a huge fan of it in its early days, introduced its use to two different academic institutions (both of whom use it now) and a number of my friends, and yet almost to the day of their 4th anniversary, I switch weblog systems, this time to wordpress. In fact this post is the first one I’m constructing on my new server, using my new install of WordPress. I tip my virtual hat to them – their software has served me well over the years. Still, I can’t help feel a little sorry for them in that they are increasingly losing their market share, to WordPress especially. In part I think this is due to their product being perl based. Like it or hate it, Perl’s popularity as a web app development environment is fading, and the amount of support and addon products available for php packages like WordPress makes the Movabletype software universe look….anemic. On the other hand, I guess Typepad is doing ok for them so maybe all ships rise on a rising tide and all that. Meanwhile though, I’m off to WordPress land. I’ll make a second post describing exactly what I did this go around and why, for those curious about the technical nitty gritty.