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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."
I don't get it either. LJ is an open source site, use and make a lot of intresting software and has some fantasticly helpful people on it. Yet for some reason people focus on the little kids whining there.
I like muppets.
The worst thing about these idiot self-actualization blog fanatics is that they don't even understand who uses blogs. Blogs aren't your venue to fame and fortune, and the vast majority of bloggers are perfectly fine with this. They just want to post something that their six friends are into. Sometimes, they just want to say something for themselves, like in a paper journal.
Livejournal is filled with 13 year olds blathering about nothing important. And it's my favorite site on the internets. If it's good enough for jwz...
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
OK, it's early in the discussion (~25 posts right now), but all the top-level comments seem to fall into one of two groups:
1. Not another blog story!
2. Why didn't they write up my personal favorite?
Anyone have any thoughts on the three tools they actually reviewed?
From the article:
Actually, there's nothing stopping anyone from supplying paid support for any GNU General Public Licensed program, including WordPress. And such paid support can be available but not widely enough advertised for most people to know about it. The relationship the author is getting at here is simply not true.
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