My search for an alternative to Blogger has yielded success atlast. 1) Greymatter and 2) MovableType (MT) . Of these MT is what I’d taken a good look and it looks promising. MT is a personal publishing system ( a.k.a Content Management system if you will ) developed by the husband and wife team of Ben and Mena Trott. There’s a nice interview of them at “Write the Web“.
