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here is an interesting post about this particular spammer..

There are plenty of CMSs out there that produce static html files as their output. MovableType, as much as I hate to plug them, is one. There are others.

There is nothing inherent to CMSs that cause this CPU hit you are talking about. Certain CMSs are designed for highly-dynamic sites where MovableType's 'rebuilding' method would become annoying, and others are designed for sites that still need the benefits of a central CMS but are more static. And then there are still more than combine aspects of both, like Wordpress with the Staticize plugin.

You forgot WordPress.

Moveable Type --> WordPress

Although I think WordPress is almost or at Stage 6.

For more info see this blog: http://www.elise.com/web/a/an_overview_of_the_webl og_tools_market.php

In August, WordPress had 4% market share of the blogging software community, whereas Moveable Type had 7%. Yes, I realize that Blogger (at 30%) and LiveJournal (at 23%) are the reigning kings, but I'm speaking of software you can install and host yourself; both Blogger and LiveJournal are hosted services.

You forgot WordPress.

Moveable Type --> WordPress

Although I think WordPress is almost or at Stage 6.

For more info see this blog: http://www.elise.com/web/a/an_overview_of_the_webl og_tools_market.php

In August, WordPress had 4% market share of the blogging software community, whereas Moveable Type had 7%. Yes, I realize that Blogger (at 30%) and LiveJournal (at 23%) are the reigning kings, but I'm speaking of software you can install and host yourself; both Blogger and LiveJournal are hosted services.

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It sounds like you could use a blog tool, such as PHP-based wordpress, be sure to check out the CVS-version, they have a nearly-finished 1.3 in there, much better than the current stable 1.2.2 version!
Also, writing small plugins for WP 1.3 is really easy!

From the WordPress Dev Blog: Fight Spam

You can take a look at my blog to get some idea of what is available, but be aware that I run nightly builds (don't try this at home, kids!) so a few things you see might not be available. And the Google search box at my site definitely is not part of WordPress, and might never be; I developed that bit myself. I can't imagine anything you can do with MT that you can't with WP.

I had to ditch Moveable Type explicitly due to comment spam. The real problem with it was that there was no way to delete more than one at a time. The web app only displays the last five comments and then you have to go digging through every article to find the other spams. Real pain in the ass. I switched to Wordpress, which is also beseiged by comment spam from Online Poker outfits. In Wordpress, however, you can mass-edit with all comments listed with checkboxes to delete whichever are spams.

In Moveable Type and Wordpress, you can pretty much eliminate the script-driven spambots by renaming the comment cgi handler and then editing all other files that reference it. I didn't think of this till after I swtiched to Wordpress, though.

First and foremost, it's free (speech and beer) and distributed under the GPL.

Second, the actual developers of the software actually participate in the support forums, so if you do have a question, it's likely to be answered very fast by someone intimately familiar with the software.

Third, it's a lot less susceptible to comment spam, especially after applying a few plugins and hacks. I've never received a single one, and that's not for lack of spammers trying.

Fourth, it's very easy to customize the look and feel of the site without knowing any PHP. HTML and CSS is about all you need to know. Knowing PHP helps a lot if you want to really customize it, but it isn't a requirement.

Finally, they've already included a Movable Type import utility, so those of you who are sick of MT for this and many other reasons can move over with little hassle.

Signed,
A very happy WordPress user and occasional contributor.

First and foremost, it's free (speech and beer) and distributed under the GPL.

Second, the actual developers of the software actually participate in the support forums, so if you do have a question, it's likely to be answered very fast by someone intimately familiar with the software.

Third, it's a lot less susceptible to comment spam, especially after applying a few plugins and hacks. I've never received a single one, and that's not for lack of spammers trying.

Fourth, it's very easy to customize the look and feel of the site without knowing any PHP. HTML and CSS is about all you need to know. Knowing PHP helps a lot if you want to really customize it, but it isn't a requirement.

Finally, they've already included a Movable Type import utility, so those of you who are sick of MT for this and many other reasons can move over with little hassle.

Signed,
A very happy WordPress user and occasional contributor.

First and foremost, it's free (speech and beer) and distributed under the GPL.

Second, the actual developers of the software actually participate in the support forums, so if you do have a question, it's likely to be answered very fast by someone intimately familiar with the software.

Third, it's a lot less susceptible to comment spam, especially after applying a few plugins and hacks. I've never received a single one, and that's not for lack of spammers trying.

Fourth, it's very easy to customize the look and feel of the site without knowing any PHP. HTML and CSS is about all you need to know. Knowing PHP helps a lot if you want to really customize it, but it isn't a requirement.

Finally, they've already included a Movable Type import utility, so those of you who are sick of MT for this and many other reasons can move over with little hassle.

Signed,
A very happy WordPress user and occasional contributor.

First and foremost, it's free (speech and beer) and distributed under the GPL.

Second, the actual developers of the software actually participate in the support forums, so if you do have a question, it's likely to be answered very fast by someone intimately familiar with the software.

Third, it's a lot less susceptible to comment spam, especially after applying a few plugins and hacks. I've never received a single one, and that's not for lack of spammers trying.

Fourth, it's very easy to customize the look and feel of the site without knowing any PHP. HTML and CSS is about all you need to know. Knowing PHP helps a lot if you want to really customize it, but it isn't a requirement.

Finally, they've already included a Movable Type import utility, so those of you who are sick of MT for this and many other reasons can move over with little hassle.

Signed,
A very happy WordPress user and occasional contributor.

if you aren't impressed that it has taken 7 years to get where they are, why don't you help out and do some coding?

Mainly because I'm too busy contributing to other projects and trying to occasionally get out of the house once in a while and chase down that elusive thing I once heard about called women.

Besides, I want Windows to die a horrible death.

It's not a dream anymore for some, it's a reality. Just like Matt Mullenweg was recently hired by C|Net because of his work on WordPress.

Why the links to "every other blog"? Those are not blog sites, just links to blogging software. More appropriate links would have been to sites like these.

Try WordPress. Open source, PHP/MySQL based, nice. jtc

i mainly use gallery 1.4.x - http://gallery.sf.net/ - and WordPress - http://wordpress.org/ - to create my photoblog. i host them on the same server and subdomain so its easier to reference.

a sample page can be found at http://scaturan.negimaki.com/blog/index.php/archiv es/2004/08/27/weekend-sleep/

both scripts are VERY easy to setup. ideally, you only need Apache's mod_rewrite, a mySQL account, lots of webspace and netPBM to get it up and running. altogether, the setup takes less than 5 minutes. but that's if you know what you're doing. read the docs.

if you have questions, feel free to join the #WordPress or #gallery IRC channels on irc.freenode.net - http://freenode.net/

• e-mail
• instant messages
• bulletin board posts
• blog posts
• wiki posts
• ...and in your address bar.

"So, I was on [[Slashdot]] the other day, and I saw [[invisibility cloak][an incredible invisibility cloak!]]"

"So, I was on Slashdot the other day, and I saw an incredible invisibility cloak!

• e-mail
• instant messages
• bulletin board posts
• blog posts
• wiki posts
• ...and in your address bar.

"So, I was on [[Slashdot]] the other day, and I saw [[invisibility cloak][an incredible invisibility cloak!]]"

"So, I was on Slashdot the other day, and I saw an incredible invisibility cloak!

The blog market is saturated? Oh, fiddlesticks. I just relaunched my free blog hosting service a few weeks ago. Now powered by WordPress, and so much better for it. I present: blogthing.

(And, if I remember correctly I initially launched blogthing just before Google bought Blogger. I sure can time things well, huh?)

Well, just like after MoveableHype came out with the license from hell I wrote the WordPress on freedom2operate tutorial and helped f2o welcome MT switchers. Now that weblogs.com is screwing people over I'd like to mention that Manila and weblogs.com refugees are welcome to make a switch to f2o. You don't have to use WordPress, but the tutorial makes it too easy to pass up.

The advantage with projects like b2evolution, WordPress and probably a few more (but I haven't checked them out enough) is that there are many different contributors. This makes it very unlikely that all of them would ever agree to release a version x.0 under a new license. Thus it is vitually guaranteed that these projects will stay FREE as in GPL forever! :)

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).

May 24, 2004
Slashdot Again
From Matt. Filed under Development.

Welcome Slashdot visitors, again. Can't you guys give us a break? ;)

You know the drill, some parts of the site will be static while the wave rides out.

Also note that a new version of WordPress was just released over the weekend. This version is much nicer than the old version, which is probably what was previewable on opensourcecms.

Check it out.

They're missing the one I use and love (and have no stake in, so this isn't astroturfing....), Wordpress.

http://wordpress.org/

Alas the website seems to be down right now.... but it's good, really! I've even been able to hack it a bit to use it as an entire website content management system. Example here.

Though it's aimed more at CMS's rather than blogs, it's definatley a great place to try out multiple CMS's before installing them.

Check it out - OpenSourceCMS

My current favorites:
Mambo
Wordpress
E107
and last but not least Geeklog

Mark Pilgrim has a great article on his migration.

Yes, there are options, but not having to rely upon an outside service for updating the content in your blog or gallery is what MovableType provides.

I agree that MovableType (and sixapart) should have the right to charge for their program. But going from free to crippled 70-600 dollar licenses is a bit of a shock to those of us who didn't see this coming.

Blogger or livejournal, etc are of course for people who don't want to get their hands dirty with setup and maintenance. It's a great service. But what happens if the service goes belly-up? Think mp3.com and the artists. While there's a great deal of minless drivel on many blogs, still others provide witty, insightful, funny, local, or even newsworthy content.

It's a shame that MovableType has deliberately alienated their community support and likely will end their own dominance over the weblog content management software.

For people starting out on weblogging, I agree that multiply, blogger, livejournal, or some such service is definitely worth a look.

For those of you already using MT and looking for alternatives, the ones that have been commonly mentioned in the past day may be worth checking out. For example, TextPattern, Drupal or Wordpress.

Don't like the free alternatives? MT's success came from community support. Do the same thing for these. Test them, report bugs, develop them, use them. Show MT that they're not the only game in town, just one of the most expensive.

• Pay up for commercial 3.0 license if you fall under new categories that require payments.
  
• Stay with 2.6.x, which won't require anything on your part (unless some exploits are discovered)
  
• Switch to alternatives, some with similar licensing, some GPLed.

• Pay up for commercial 3.0 license if you fall under new categories that require payments.
  
• Stay with 2.6.x, which won't require anything on your part (unless some exploits are discovered)
  
• Switch to alternatives, some with similar licensing, some GPLed.

That violates their copyright, license and probably a bunch of other stuff. Unless you plan to run the hacked version on 127.0.0.1 all the time, it's not too hard for SixApart to find your site, double-check the customer list and then send you cease-and-desist.

Hack this, instead.

A merit of http://www.opensourcecms.com/ is the
categorization : it's important to distinguish generic ("portal") CMSs from just weblogs engines,
and other variants. Though -of course- there's no clear cut-off.

I've been making some research recently.
I wanted an open weblog engine (perhaps with some light cms features), in php+mysql (for ubiquitousness), with good internals (decent code and developer docs).

Among the heavyweigth CMSs -escaping from the horrible mess of PhpNuke and sons- I looked at Mambo, Xaraya and XOOPS ; all of them are really interesting; but too complex beasts for my needs.

Drupal (a generic CMS with weblog included) deserves consideration: nice developer docs, carefully organized coding base and very active. But I dont like the concepts it uses ("nodes","taxonomy"), the templating strategy and the focus in general (a CMS too abstract, I feel).

On the other side, on the KISS weblogs engines, Wordpress has gained a lot of attention. And I liked it overall.
BUT: the code is rather immature and poorly organized and the docs are terrible. Lots of poor software design choices, both at maintainability and performance aspects(yes, guys; I know it's just PHP, but even then... lots of globals, nearly no classes, plugins bad integrated, etc)

I finally choose Nucleus. It beats WP largely in software design and documentation. A minus: it's weak activity (compared with wp and others): a year from the last stable release (2.0). But it's alive, has a decent forum, 3.0RC released this month; and going in the good direction IMHO.

A merit of http://www.opensourcecms.com/ is the
categorization : it's important to distinguish generic ("portal") CMSs from just weblogs engines,
and other variants. Though -of course- there's no clear cut-off.

I've been making some research recently.
I wanted an open weblog engine (perhaps with some light cms features), in php+mysql (for ubiquitousness), with good internals (decent code and developer docs).

Among the heavyweigth CMSs -escaping from the horrible mess of PhpNuke and sons- I looked at Mambo, Xaraya and XOOPS ; all of them are really interesting; but too complex beasts for my needs.

Drupal (a generic CMS with weblog included) deserves consideration: nice developer docs, carefully organized coding base and very active. But I dont like the concepts it uses ("nodes","taxonomy"), the templating strategy and the focus in general (a CMS too abstract, I feel).

On the other side, on the KISS weblogs engines, Wordpress has gained a lot of attention. And I liked it overall.
BUT: the code is rather immature and poorly organized and the docs are terrible. Lots of poor software design choices, both at maintainability and performance aspects(yes, guys; I know it's just PHP, but even then... lots of globals, nearly no classes, plugins bad integrated, etc)

I finally choose Nucleus. It beats WP largely in software design and documentation. A minus: it's weak activity (compared with wp and others): a year from the last stable release (2.0). But it's alive, has a decent forum, 3.0RC released this month; and going in the good direction IMHO.

Besides, it isn't about the money. It is about the community. MT has quite the devoted community around the and Six Apart pissed on a lot of shoes.

Time will tell if it is worth it, but perhaps Six Apart now wants to get into the commercial CMS business dominated by other, just as crappy, outfits providing 'solutions' that include invalid markup, bad Information Architecture, and outrageous fees.

b2evo This is what I would recommend people check out first.
BBlog (requires PHP version 4.1 or greater & MySQL version 3.23 or greater)
Bit 5 Blog
blosxom (only need ability to run CGI scripts)
drupal.org (mySQL or similar required)
LiveJournal.org
MyPHPblog/Simplog (seems to require MySQL would have to download to be sure.)
Nucleus (requires PHP version 4.0.6 or higher and access to a MySQL database version 3.23.38 or higher)
Pivot (only php required)
pLog (requires PHP 4.1.x or higher and MySQL 3.1.x or higher)
Scoop (requires Apache with mod_perl and mySQL)
TikiWiki (requires PHP 4.1+ and MySQL. Very powerful software.)
WordPress (requires PHP version 4.1 or greater and MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater.)

I'm not a cheapskate. I believe in paying for good software.

But I won't pay for Movable Type. Here's why.

On SixApart's behalf, they made several big mistakes in launching their pricing structure. Since they announced MT3 and that they were going to charge for it, they also promised a free non-crippled version of MT3. Blogging is generally a communual experience. I blog casually, and I have a couple of friends who write posts on my blog from time to time, and a wife who keeps her own blog. The free version of MT3 is crippled, because it limits the users and number of blogs. Limiting user base is bad thing to do when blogging is still relatively new.

Secondly, the pricing structure is much higher than what people anticipated. Those in the beta test for MT3 had absolutely no idea that it was going to cost this much, and many who did participate have publically stated they wouldn't have if they did know. Why the hostility?

Two reasons. It's the community that made MT what it is now. There's not really that much new functionality in MT3 that makes it worth paying $100 for (the $70 is a temporary discount remember?). Many of the features that made MT2x worth using were coded by non-SixApart people. Users - with no profit motive whatsoever - coded hundreds of MT plugins that exceeded the coding ability of SixApart. Others wrote far more detailed tutorials and instructions than SixApart provided for their own software. So, SixApart is compensating them by running a contest for the best plugin? That's insulting, honestly.

Secondly, there are blogging apps that do as good a job as MT3, if not better. And, they're free. Others have similar pricing structures as MT3 but do more. So, why MT3? And let's get this straight: using something for free isn't necessarily being a cheapass. If maintaining my blogs as they are will cost me upwards $150, why shouldn't I migrate to a free solution? Imagine if Windows had the same stability and security as Linux, but cost the same as it does now for a company to run. Why wouldn't a company move to Linux? Are companies being the durgatory form of cheapskates by moving to a lower priced product? No. It's common market sense, and because of its love for linux and open source, slashdot should be aware of this better than anyone. Some MT users probably are cheapass, and will warez the MT software if they can or do whatever they can to avoid paying.

But a larger portion are paying for accounts on livejournal and blogger. They are paying for internet access and webhosting. They're not cheapskates. Instead, like me, they just don't want to pay $150-200 for what is basically a hobby, and a hobby that can continue for free if we switch software. Why should we support a company that doesn't announce its pricing structure beforehand, and keeps it as close to their chest as possible? Why did SixApart do that? Why didn't they announce it before time? Because they knew people would be pissed. This reaction is no surprise to anyone.

how many people really try to code decent, standard-following web pages, and how many just code for IE6. Bzzt. Oh I'm sorry, you failed to put that in the form of a question. All joking aside, I code standard-following web sites. Not that I count much in a world full of billions of people, but you might be interested in knowing that the developers of WordPress, a very popular piece of blogging software (at least in the blogging communities), conforms to XHTML1.1 Transitional and CSS 2 validity.

Wordpress
is an excellent php-based blogging utility with "Blog by email" that has numerous modifications available. One of which is the ability to attach photos to your email, and have them posted automatically. YMMV, but I'm having some success.

new open source WYSIWYG Web page creator/editor with FTP facilities

Just when the world finally stopped caring about FrontPage and FrontPage look alikes and started implementing MovableType, pMachine and fully-GPLed WordPress and other content-management system for full blown sites, open source community comes up with something no one gives a fuck anymore, since we've moved on from FrontPage.

Way to go, guys, innovation at its best. So in 5 years can I except a full framework for XML-driven clients (hint: Microsoft OneNote) being a new innovation??

I'm doing the exact same thing. In fact, I just registered the domain a week ago. I'm using WordPress as the blogging software, although I haven't found anything good to use as the album software. I'm hoping I don't have to roll my own, but I will if it's necessary.