Another advantage I can imagine is, if you have several blogs and they are all on different platforms, you can have one interface that works for all your blogs.  I do have a couple of blogs but they’re both WordPress and I’m not considering any other platforms, so that’s not much of an advantage for me either.

Yet another advantage is, if your blog’s editor is poor, this does seem to have a nice, responsive and full featured WYSIWIG interface.  Again, that doesn’t do much for me, the WordPress editor is pretty nice as well.

If you write your posts over a period of time and your blog platform doesn’t provide the ability to save drafts, Live Writer lets you save a local copy.  WordPress does allow drafts.

This is what the interface looks like.  I just inserted this picture of the interface.  I’ll admit, if this works, it was much easier than putting a picture into a post with wordpress.

The text is wrapping and I just had to select a wrap option rather than going into the HTML code and adding a class to the img tag.

Another pretty sweet touch is, when you set it up, it attaches to your blog and pulls down information about your blog configuration.  For example, it pulled down my blog’s categories and the list is available in Live Writer.  Pretty sweet.

There are shortcut links on the right for inserting common items, such as pictures.  Also hyperlinks, tables, maps (microsoft maps, not google maps), tags (but I can’t tell quite what they mean by tags) and video.

It’s free, but it’s windows only.  So far I like it well enough that I’ll use it at least for my next post.

Update: Yes, it does.

I don’t like that it uses a flash player. I’m generally anti-flash.

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.

Immediately what I notice is, I don’t see the concept of tags in WordPress after looking for what seemed to be about 10 seconds.