Multi-user blog tools reviewed

Blog Savvy offers what looks like a pretty thorough census of LAMP tools that product multi-user blogging environments. Besides the usual suspects -- Drupal, Moveable Type, Word Press, Manila -- there's a name I hadn't seen: Elgg, which lets you build a Livejournal type community. It's in beta. AND, there's a project underway to integrate it with Moodle, my very favorite LMS -- open source or otherwise. I might just have to take it for a spin. There's a hosted version. Why do I have an urge to put it on my own server? Because I actually enjoy configuring and customizing new LAMP apps. Is that warped?

I keep thinking the OPML blogger community needs something in this line. Lots of times bloggers using the beta OPML editor yell across the backyard fence at each other in blog posts, but if you don't happen to be online at the same time that somebody is shouting to you, or you don't sub to everybody's feeds, you might miss the shout out.