Small Town Geeks

The folks over at MovableType recently announced a new open-source version of their blogging platform, named Melody.  Viewable over at openmelody.org, you can tell that this is a direct push to compete with wordpress.org‘s offerings and community base.

Asking current developers and coders to design and improve upon the software will certainly be a win-win for Melody; after all, the same school of thought has brought WordPress to its current 2.8 version (soon to be 2.8.1), and has allowed it to grow into the premier blogging platform for most (it even powers smalltowngeeks.net!)

Melody is a new open-source Blog Platform

I’m going to be demoing  Melody over the next few days, and hope to get a screencast up showing the benefits (or detriments) of the latest open-source blogging platform.

-Ryan