Blogware recommendations?

[Jake Pollmann]

On 10/4/07, Wade Preston Shearer <lists at wadeshearer.com> wrote:
> MovableType is horrible. It doesn't read straight from the database.
> You have "publish" after you do anything, an action that reads from
> the database and writes everything out to flat files.

Wouldn't that lend to better scalability?  Why hit the the database
for every page served?  Other than the extra step of "publishing" what
is the downside?

Jake Pollmann