Corporate Blog Question - Update

So, here’s the question – who should I use?

After some good feedback, I decided to go with Typepad. As I mentioned, I had some pretty basic requirements;

it had to be a hosted application. I didn’t want to have to install anything or set up a new box or anything
I had to be able to use a domain name with it. Using a default “blog.bloghost.com” wasn’t going to cut it.
It had to have decent templates that I could customize without too much brain damage.
I couldn’t use Blogware because I needed something hosted on a completely different network in case we encountered more issues like the DDOS attack that we saw last week.

So why did I go with Typepad?

First off, their pricing seemed fair. In this case, I wanted to pay for the tool considering that I was going to use it for business purposes. I figure that if I’m going to make money from it, its only reasonable to pass a small portion of that along in exchange for good tools and good service.

Second, they meet all my other requirements. The most important requirement was that it was run somewhere else. I promised our product people that I wouldn’t make a big deal out of setting up a Typepad blog, so I’m going to try not to (although I think that this post constitutes otherwise). I would have totally loved to use Blogware. It is by far the best blogging tool that I have ever used (I’m a former hardcore Blogger, Radio and MT user – I migrated in that order).

I’m actually quite liking Typepad. I’ve never really used it before – I mean, I’ve seen screen shots, but I’ve never gone under the hood. Feature-wise, its very comparable to Blogware. Slightly prettier, but no-where near as flexible from a reseller perspective. I’m sure that my little project will be perfectly happy there.

And no, byte.org isn’t moving.