I've been using Movable Type almost as long as you have, Dave, and just noticed that the way you name your blog entry archives is pretty different to how Movable Type 4 does it by default. I'm setting up a new blog for my sister and would like to see if I can mirror your archive filename format. My question is: how do you change the template file naming scheme in MT4?...

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I have heard you talk more than once about how you write blog entries and schedule them for future publication so that you can space things out and work ahead, rather than having to create a new blog entry every day. Nice, but how do I do that in Wordpress?...

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I read your earlier article about adding users to an MT 3.3 Movable Type blog, and am wondering if you can also share how you schedule blog postings for the future? I have heard you say more than once about the benefit of being able to write a week's worth of blog entries in a day or two......

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I'm running Movable Type for my blog, as you are with Ask Dave Taylor, and I want to let some friends add content and new articles, but don't want to have them messing things up. How do I set this up?...

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Over time I've managed to create a bunch of different blogs, some of which are live and others that have been relegated to the digital recycle bin. Except they're still in my Movable Type installation. How do I actually delete a blog from MT?...

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I dunno if you can help me out, but I've been using Typepad for quite a while now and it's time to move to my own blogging solution on my own server. My question is: how the heck do I actually cancel my Typepad account?...

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I manage a Movable Type blog that has a number of different authors and one of my less prolific writers just emailed me saying she can't log in any more. Is there a way I can change her password as the MT administrator?...

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I just purchased Growing Your Business with Google and can't wait to start reading it. Here's my questions. What are the major differences between Blogger and WordPress and why would I want to use one rather than the other?...

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I have a pretty long list of sites that I ping but only recently realized that I have no way of pinging the new Google Blogsearch service when I have a new entry on my MT blog! Is there a way to do this that I just haven't bumped into?...

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I'm really getting into blogging, but am starting to get a bit paranoid (especially after I read about how Robert Scoble lost years of his blog entries after 9/11 [ref]) and feel like I really need to create my own backup of my blog, not rely on someone else to manage it. How do I do that in Movable Type?...

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Dave, I'm awful curious about how exactly you have the PSP book advert that shows up on your pages related to the Sony PSP, but nowhere else on your site. Is that some fancy trick you're doing with Movable Type, or is that some separate bit of programming wizardry you've done?...

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