Getting a Feed Aggregator like http://www.technorati.com to distribute a blog feed is not as simple as was the case as recently as 6 months ago.
I am in the process of getting Technorati to distribute the feed for this blog. Not only have I had to prove to Technorati that I have, in fact, a Blog that I publish, but I have had to go further and prove that I am the owner of the Blog. I have opted to send them my Technorati Profile in lieu of sending them other information that I found to be confidential.
Worse yet, the cached version of my Blog went back a year ago to a different Blog. The ping feature of Movable Type seems to have fixed this cache issue.
As to Movable Type itself, the documentation on installation is not very helpful. As well, one of the most important features for me, the style of the pages themselves and my ability to easily change them as I require, is not very easy at all. The StyleCatcher application did not work as represented. In fact, for a period of time I lost any style at all for my pages. Thanks to my ISP, I got the issue resolved in fairly quick time once I called into the ISP.
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