Thanks for the review. Just to be clear, I deliberately chose not to talk about blogging technology because that content will, as you point out, quickly go out of date. My book is about blogging, not about using software.

That decision surprised people at the time, some of whom expected it to be more of a technical manual. But of all the blogging books published that year, mine is the one that continues to consistently sell (and continues to be picked up for translation into other languages). So in retrospect, I believe I made the right choice.

Another reason, of course, is that I don’t know blogging technology very well. As you rightly point out, I now us MT to manage my site — and have for a full 6 days. Up until January 11 I hand-coded my site. And though I like the functionality MT provides, I’m still not sure how it meshes with my writing process. I’m reserving the right to go back to hand-coding at any time.