Best Weblogs for Personal Websites?

herrvinny asks: "What is the best weblog script to use on a personal web site? SourceForge and Google show plenty of weblogging systems available, but I just need a simple, powerful solution. Movable Type has been recommended to me, but I've heard of problems with spam, exploits, and comment flooding. I'd like to have a decently good comments section, where visitors can reply to my ramblings and have a fairly large toolset in which to do so, i.e. smilies, some limited HTML (bold, italic, etc). A small Polling plugin would be terrific as well. Which weblogging systems do Slashdot readers use and recommend? Some complexity isn't a problem; I can work in Perl, HTML, C (among other languages) if I need to. Also, what do people think of adapting Slashcode for such purposes?"

Comments

What about just for posting a simple news list

[skermit]

I want an updates list kinda like the one I had before here: http://www.christopherwu.net/news.php, and I used a now defunct program called newsPHP or nPHP for short. It was easy, allowed me to add a couple entries, and stored all the data in a text datafile which was separated using metatags which a PHP script chopped up and displayed. It was quick, easy, and required no mysql, or any sort of programming experience. Anybody got a suggestion for a barebones update/news itemizer? Please Thanks!

How About Integrating It Into a BB?

[TheWanderingHermit]

I currently have phpBB running on a site. Has anyone ever tried integrating their blogging into something like this? I'd think it could be done easily by creating a special topic where only the administrator can post, then another topic for replies.

Has anyone done this? Is there any problem with it that experienced users can warn about?

simplicity is king, I use poseiden

[Moleman]

I use a small CMS called poseiden. http://wonko.com/poseidon/

It does exactly what I need it to, which is maintain an archive and let me people post comments. GPL too.

No longer maintained, but wonko is like that.

PostNuke

[Zugok]

I have been looking for something similar similar to Slashdot or Scoop

I don't see how usimg Slash or Scoop would be a problem, but my experiences in installing them can test your patience. Last time I managed to get Slash going was about 5 years ago, and just recently tried Scoop on WinXP without success. Your milage may vary, but since you can do PERL, HTML and C, you will find it a lot easier. I on the otherhand, am not a code money in anyway at all (well a little fortran anyway).

The closest I have come to finding something reasonably mature, easy to install, is PostNuke. They say it is secure. It is php based, but works similar to Slashdot. Here's an example. PostNuke itself has no smiles (I can;t stand them myself), but it has a module called PNphpBB which makes it act like phpBB2. PostNuke's own forum uses this module, which I find odd, but if it meets their needs, who am I to complain :)