Blog Software Smackdown

An anonymous reader writes "With published numbers saying there are approximately 70,000 new blogs being created each day, and the total number of blogs doubling every 5 months, it's no wonder that everyone and their dog is wondering whether to setup their own blog for a chance at fame, or perhaps a book publishing deal. The question then becomes: What software should you use? SitePoint has just published The Blog Software Smackdown which takes a look at Movable Type, WordPress, and Textpattern. Pick one, and take your stab at fame or notoriety."

Comments

Nanoblogger

[zecg]

Sheer elegance is nanoblogger. Truly minimal, console-friendly and GPL licensed.

I've used...

[under_score]

...three methods: plain old html/css, Movable Type, and Blogger. Each has distinct advantages and disadvantages:

• POHtml/css: ultimate in flexibility for layout and publishing. Pain in the butt to update and maintain.
• Movable Type: good balance between flexibility, built-in dynamic features and maintainability. Irritating to keep up-to-date for software versions, and a little slow for some of the dynamic features.
• Blogger: easiest to use by far. Nice integrated anti-comment-spam. Not very flexible in comparison.

For comments and trackbacks I use HaloScan. For pinging blog trackers I use Ping-O-Matic. I don't run any blogs that are super popular, but my Agile Advice blog has a good niche following with about 300 hits/day after six months of development. I've used Movable Type as a CMS system for my consulting/training web site too. It is flexible enough that I can make it do what I need for site layout, permanent (non-blog) articles, and the blog features are mostly turned off, except for publishing news items/announcements. I'm not a layout or graphics prodigy so I like the fairly simple default layouts provided by MT.

What about Drupal?

[ultralame]

OK. So it's a CMS. But it works great as a blog and is OSS. I have recently switched to it on my server, and it seems to handle everything better than Wordpress (I had a lot of spamming problems, and could never get the anti-spam additions to work). With drupal, I have had no problems with it or any of the modules I have installed. drupal.org

Re:MS IIS C# .NET Blogging software ?

[nxtw]

There are a few.

DasBlog
BlogX
tBlogger
.Text

There may be others.

70,000 blogs per day?

[Regulus]

100 of which are legit, with the remaining 69900 being computer generated google-rank link-farms....

Re:Slashcode? Yes? SlashGISRS.org?

[Lord Satri]

Are there any meaningful sites out there that run slashcode?

I'd like to believe so. http://slashgisrs.org/ - we're trying to be pertinent and useful. But since we're less than 2 months old, we don't have the readership /. gets. But we still have 6000 daily hits :-) It's very specific: for the geospatial community out there.

Normally, you can find other slashcode projects there: http://www.slashcode.com/sites.pl but this part of the site is down since the last slash-css update.

slashcode is *hard* to correctly install and setup. But it *is* a great tool once everything runs at a steady state :-)

Cheers!

There's much better comparisons out there...

[daVinci1980]

I used the comparison over at asymptotic.net when looking for the blog software for my site. It compares pretty much everything under the sun, in a neat, well defined table with an excellent legend.

I think the breakdown there is a lot better than the one listed in the article. YMMV.