SUMMARY: Favorite Blog Apps?

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> While I'm soliciting input, anyone care to comment on their favorite
>> apps for blogging? To be clear, I'm not asking for a list of
>> favorite blogs, but apps with which to create, maintain, and manage
>> a blog.
>>
>> I'm looking for one that supports multiple users, if that makes a
>> difference.
>
>Thanks, everyone, for your input. I haven't chosen a blogging app, but 
>I've started evaluating them. In the meantime, here's the summary of 
>the blogs people suggested and, when possible why:
>
>* SimpleBlog, a Plone-based product
>* eLog (http://midas.psi.ch/elog/ - more of a logbook handler than a 
>traditional journaling-style blog, but it looks easy to set up and 
>doesn't have a database back-end
>* blosxom - minimal setup, lots of plugins, evidently runs as a CGI
>* MovableType - runs as a CGI or an Apache Module and now has backend 
>database support
>* WordPress - typical PHP/MySQL blog with support for multiple authors 
>and workflow features; easy to customize and admin.
>
>Other suggestions were for more general content management systems 
>(CMS), including Xaraya and Mambo (PHP + MySQL).

If you're looking at CVF, I've had very good experiences using Zope with
Plone.

Bill
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