Having used it for over a week, I think the answer is unequivecally _No_. I wanted a tool that would let me publish articles as well as weblog entries, without having to create the HTML pages myself. Maybe movabletype can do this, but I haven’t worked out how to make it publish certain categories into different folders on for example.
The date-based model that MovableType and other blogging tools follow makes pointless to go back and update old entries when you have something new to say. Who’s going to find that you’ve added something or corrected some mistakes?
Making a new entry saying “I have updated a previous entry” would work, but increases the noise, without increasing the usefulness.
The solution? I don’t know yet; keep checking this post for updates 
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Hrm, you could use two ‘blogs, one oft-updated “real” ‘blog, and one that just exists so you can take advantage of MT’s ease-of-use as an article-based CMS.
Good idea Mark, I think I will try this before writing my own tool (or looking for another ready-written one). Really I’d prefer a PHP-coded tool, as that is my language, but as “Wordpress”:http://www.wordpress.org isn’t finished and the advanced “pMachine”:http://www.pmachine.com costs money, I think I’ll have to stick with MT for a while
Couldn’t you either
a) Modify the ‘Authored on’ date of the entry, which would jump it to the top of the queue once more
b) Use the sort_by=”field name”, sorted by modified_on rather than the default authored_on
marc: To answer your two points:
a) - Because I’d like to keep the original date that the entry was written somewhere.
b) - I didn’t know a modified_on field existed
Thanks - I will try this. Probably not on the front page, but on the category indexes instead.
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