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  1. Re:Why WordPress Is Poised To Take Over by james.clark · · Score: 1 · on Weblog System Features Compared

    At the beginning there was a "classy blogtool" called b2.

    When Michel V., the original author of b2, stopped development of his tool, two forks emerged simultaneously: b2evolution and WordPress.

    This was in early 2003. For some reason, Michel V. later chose to endorse the WordPress fork as an "official" successor to his work.

    Anyway, both forks have developped at approximately the same pace but with slighlty different orientations. b2evolution is merely moving towards a larger scale multilingual multiuser multiblog system, maybe even a full featured CMS, while WordPress is merely concentrating on adding sweetness to basic blogging, like image thumbnail generation, etc.

    Having looked at the sourcecode, WordPress is closer to the original b2, while b2evolution has been significantly rewritten in a more object oriented way (as far as PHP 4 can be considered OO).

  2. Re:Why WordPress Is Poised To Take Over by james.clark · · Score: 1 · on Weblog System Features Compared

    At the beginning there was a "classy blogtool" called b2.

    When Michel V., the original author of b2, stopped development of his tool, two forks emerged simultaneously: b2evolution and WordPress.

    This was in early 2003. For some reason, Michel V. later chose to endorse the WordPress fork as an "official" successor to his work.

    Anyway, both forks have developped at approximately the same pace but with slighlty different orientations. b2evolution is merely moving towards a larger scale multilingual multiuser multiblog system, maybe even a full featured CMS, while WordPress is merely concentrating on adding sweetness to basic blogging, like image thumbnail generation, etc.

    Having looked at the sourcecode, WordPress is closer to the original b2, while b2evolution has been significantly rewritten in a more object oriented way (as far as PHP 4 can be considered OO).

  3. Re:Livejournal is the standard by 87C751 · · Score: 1 · on Google Helps Offer Blogger Pro For Free
    LiveJournal is happily Open Source.
    As are b2 and Movable Type, among others. I always thought that the appeal of LiveJournal was that it doesn't need separate hosting, and perhaps some "snob appeal" in that free accounts are available only to the invited.
  4. Re:I don't really get blogs... by feelsinister · · Score: 1 · on Blogger Hacked
    LiveJournal blogs are the worst, IMHO. People go on and on about events and parties with people that 99.99999% of their readers have never met. Once I realize I've stumbled across something like that, I leave it as soon as I can.
    I'd really love to know where people get the idea that livejournals are blogs. Being the intelligent folk that you are, I'd have thought that you'd guess from the name that livejournals are... journals.

    Most of the best blogs are hosted on the owners' domain (generally using MoveableType, or b2, and focus very little on the life of the blogger.
  5. While Everyone by SomeOtherGuy · · Score: 5, Informative · on Blogger Hacked

    is looking for alternatives. b2 is a really good and powerful altewrnative. PHP, MySQl, and all the goodies.

  6. You're thinking of blogs generally by xant · · Score: 2 · on Narrative and Weblogs: the Blognovel

    Most blog apps have this already. b2 which is my favorite certainly employs this feature, so you can filter by category. I'm not sure what this would add to a novel's narrative format, though. If it's not a linear progression through a story, it shouldn't be called a novel, although it may be no less meaningful a form of art. A blog can be a linear progression, but not if you filter out part of it by categorizing it.