If you’re like several people I know who are currently considering running your own blog, check out this smackdown of 3 blogging systems: WordPress, MovableType & TextPattern.

I’ve only use 2 of the three. After a few years running rexlam.com on MovableType I stopped using it for two reasons. First, I don’t like the new complex licensing. The free version is restrictive. Second, I was inundated with comment spams which requires hours of maintenance a month, despite various anti-spam plugins I tried. I switched over to WordPress this summer and so far am happy with it. WordPress is easier to use but is also easy to hack around. One thing I also like is WordPress generates its pages dynamically, as opposed to MovableType which I was required to rebuild the site from time to time.