I’m using WordPress for my own blog. But now i’m seeking multyblog engine (multiple users, blog hoster), but can’t find good GPL engine!

USC Annenberg’s Online Journalism Review just published a comparative review of popular weblog software.

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Jeremy Zawodny asks the question: While I don’t claim to know or predict the future, I do feel like this whole blogging thing is gonna peak sooner or later. After that it may die off or continue along just fine….

Searching for different blogging tools, I saw an ad for “Blog It” (I am in no way affiliated with this company, just curious). It has a fee but claims the user will MAKE money through readership. Does anyone have experience with this? Does it really pay? Is it difficult to use?

Thanks for the great articles!

Best of of all, pLog is free (GPL) and runs on PHP and MySQL. What else can you ask for? :)

PS: sorry about the double-posting!

Best of of all, pLog is free (GPL) and runs on PHP and MySQL. What else can you ask for? :)

MT has subcategories
MT APIs are Blogger, MetaWeblog, MT
MT has logs
Datastorage should read Database (MT allows for both a filesystem-based database or a regular database server, but those are both databases)
MT allows for comment moderation out of the box
MT publishing interface is of course password protected!

I wonder if the accuracy is the same for other tools.

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I did want to say that yes, there are hundreds of plugins for nearly all of these, and if you think putting the chart together was a big job, doing so and accounting for all those plugins was even bigger! At any rate, there are many new bloggers who are daunted by plugins and customization. The capabilities included in a tool’s standard-installed feature set is important, no matter how extensible it ultimately is.

Best,
Susannah.

Susannah Gardner, author of Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies, has written a great article comparing blog tools. There’s even one heck of chart comparing the features of the various blog solutions. If you are a lawyer or law firm…

Here’s my Mambo (http://www.mamboserver.com/). Mambo is a very powerful CMS. Mainly used for non-blogs, it has been used quite nicely (with plugins and addons of course) to create some extremly good blogs.

A big learning curve is needed IF and only IF you dive into all the features which this contains.

If all you do is blog, you should be up and running in 30 mins. I was.

I’ve wanted to switch to get the benefits of the fee-based services, but I’ve decided to hang in there because I think we’re in for a pleasant surprise with new (fee-based) features to be announced by Google soon. This is just a hunch.

See the future for Google’s Blogger:

http://beyondthevoip.blogspot.com/2005/07/future-for-googles-blogger.html

http://www.peterflaschner.com/index.php?id=189

Drupal, as mentioned above, and Textpattern are both missing. I know it’s impossible to include every CMS, but imo, passing over Textpattern is a significant oversight. There is a very large base of users, a very healthy library of plugins, and hundreds of tutorials available. And its free. And a heck of a lot easier to install than some of the listed options.

Not including plugin capabilities on the chart is a huge oversight. I’m at a loss as to why the writer chose to include the API (which only a tiny fraction of the population cares about) and not whether the software supports third party functionality. The three CMSs that I am familiar with (Textpattern, WordPress, and MT) make heavy use of plugins. If one were to go by the chart alone, one would be left with the impression that MT lacks the ability to blacklist commentors (a fact that would likely dissuade most users). In fact, adding blacklist ability is a simple matter of installing a plugin. Plugins are given a short sentence in the body of the article, but leaving their mention off the chart is tantamount to intellectual dishonesty.

In all, while this is at first glance an impressive accomplishment, it falls quite short of being a useful tool. No mention is made as to what criteria were used to select the programs, nor is any mention made of the plethora of other choices available. The fact that this article is posted at a major University’s Online Journalism Review shows just how far behind the time journalists and academia have fallen.

Really interesting. However, as it was mentioned, plugins exists to enable bloggers to do anything with their blog platform(and if it doesn’t exist, they can develop it) like WordPress, b2Evolution, Drepal, etc (all non hosted blog applications).

I think that if you liked that article, you could like that list that I created with my readers:

32 things to check when searching for a blog system and a hosting service

Salutations,

Fred

There are also some errors that are arguable since they involve nonstandard installs or plugins. You can easily run multiple WordPress blogs off a single database. http://news.tom-hanna.com and http://library.tom-hanna.com are both running off the same database. Yeah, you upload a second copy of the core files and run a second install, but it doesn’t cost anything for that second copy and without creating a new database the time is way less than five minutes. There is also a mutliuser version available, though I had less luck getting it installed. Photogalleries and CAPTCHAs are both available by way of multiple (free) plugins.

To be fair, if that many features are wrong on WordPress, they may have underestimated some of the other platforms as well.