Blogging Software: Movable Type 3.31

I took a few days off from the Athletics migration this week in order to upgrade the University's Movable Type blogging software from version 3.2 to version 3.3. This was in preparation for the fall semester's blogging and in anticipation of possible expansion of academic blogging.

The blog you're reading right now is using this new version. You'll notice that some of the entries are now "tagged", a new feature of 3.3 that allows an alternative to categories for organizing posts. Notice the "tag cloud" in the right side bar that shows the frequency of the tags used based on the weight and size of the font.

I've also installed some plug-ins that have improved the posting and editing of entries using a WYSIWYG editor.  

And with version 3.3, we're also now using a mySQL database and some other back-end features that should improve the performance of our blogs.