It signs up members for you and remembers them. Both Blogger and Manila anticipate that there may be several people updating the same site. Manila aspires to be a complete web-publishing system. And it was only released on December 1st. All that being given, I still have some problems with Manila.
Hard thing are easy and easy things are hard.
I still have not figured out how to know whether a story I have written will appear on my home page or in the Calendar archives. The model is so flexible, I wrote a story that disappeared. And there doesn't seem to be any calendar day I can click on to get my Field trip to St. Barts story, even thought I saw it on the home page before I started this comparision story. I have no idea why this happens, except that I was very confused about how you got stories on the home page. For a list of Manila sites, click here and here .