College drags its feet on supporting teaching and learning. I researched Movable Type, TypePad, and trackback ove a year ago. I pitched the idea to a college V.P. who will remain nameless at least for now. I teach "Online Publishing and Production" and do have a website for our product at http://in-the-loop.colum.edu but we don't have access to Movable and its easy publishing features. What really gets to me, is after my pitch, I was told the VP would look into it. He sure did. Now the college administrators can use Movable for their in-house newsletters, but teachers don't have access to it. If the college had just stayed Luddite and not gotten any blogging software, it wouldn't sting so badly. Having to look at Movable, without being able to harness its powerful features in the classroom hurts. If anyone who is an educator or journalist were to comment about how Movable Type with Trackback is a useful educational tool, perhaps I could use it in my quest to work with technology effectively at an Arts and Communication school that still (sigh) has no Technology V.P. or support for academic computing issues like this. CNET News.com Introduces TrackBack, Linking Blog Commentary to CNET News.com Stories