Looking through google I found a few posts on the WordPress vs. Movable Type issue. Here’s a few:
http://businesslogs.com/reviews/movable_type_vs_wordpress_my_opinion.php
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=167839
http://www.dustindiaz.com/movable-type-versus-wordpress/
They all seem to lean towards WordPress although it’s not a slam dunk.
The main issues seem to be
- WordPress is open source
- WordPress pages are dynamically published
Movable Type is free but, since it’s a for-profit company, the terms may change in future versions. WordPress is free, and open source. Once you have it you’re free to do anything you want with it.
Movable Type publishes all it’s pages statically. That’s bad when you make a change because all the pages need to be regenerated but for servers, and users, viewing a page should be a little faster. Movable Type now offers dynamic publishing but I hear that many, maybe most, of the available MT plugins won’t work with dynamic publishing.
I’m still curious about tagging. Under MT I can produce a feed for each tag. Can WordPress? I haven’t seen any discussion about that.
Update
Here’s some info on WordPress feeds. It seems WordPress CAN do feeds based on Categories, which may be the same as Movable Types tags.