One challenge of "serious" blogging

My former colleague and all-around cool guy Mark Jones writes about the pains of setting up blogs for internal communications, the principal one being setting up the individual user accounts for everyone. I'm assuming (perhaps wrongly) that Mark is using Movable Type, or at least something similar.

I'm not sure Movable Type is positioning itself as an enterprise intranet tool, but we use it as such at InfoWorld and the account setup is a pain when you want passwords and access controls managed centrally (i.e. Active Directory or LDAP). If only MT had LDAP integration. . . well, apparently someone else has done some work on this, but the project page hasn't been updated since late 2002.

It looks like the more interesting work in this area is going on with Word Press. Alistair Young has introduced LDAP integration that works with the latest version of Word Press.

In looking for this stuff, I found a useful rundown of multi-user blogging tools.

My advice to Mark for now -- just start typing those individual usernames/passwords and let me know if anyone offers a better option, because I'm looking for it, too.