Blogging Tools, Services, Software
Blog Creation Software and Tools
The only system that will let you mass optimize
100+ Wordpress blogs a day and manage all your WordPress blogs
from one central location. Read
review here
Blog-In-A
Box
A blogging package that comes with has 20 Pre-Built
Blog Templates in Easy-To-Use HTML format complete with PSD
files for easy modification to fit your needs in a variety of
styles and colors. The templates can easily be integreated into
Blogger's publishing setup. As a bonus, you also get a the manual,
Your Complete Guide To Publishing A Traffic-Generating
Web Log, valued at $37.77 with your purchase.
Blog
Software Resources
Reviews of free and fee-based blogging software
and tools by T. L. Pakii Pierce
Weblog
Publishing Tools
A comprehensive list of web log publishing tools
at the Open Directory Project.
Instant
Video Generator
Put Video on your Blog with this easy-to-use
service from Armand Morin.
Blogging Services (Hosted)
Blogsome
Free hosted blogs on the Wordpress platform. I
prefer wordpress because it allows trackbacks, categories and
is more feature-rich than blogger.
Blogger
One of the easiest ways to start a blog. Create
an account here for free. This Blogger
tutorial will walk you through the process of beginning
your own blog with Blogger.
BlogID
A powerful and easy to use weblog service. From
pictures, videos, links, documents, newsletter, opinions and
more, BlogID makes publishing quick and easy.
SquareSpace
Beautiful templates, lots of features. If you have the moolah
and looks matter, go for this service.
Typepad
A popular blogging hosted service, TypePad gives
users a rich set of features to immediately share and publish
information -- like travel logs, journals and digital scrapbooks.
Skinny
Mouse
Every account comes with WordPress, a fantastic blogging and
publishing tool. And no technical integration required.
MyST-Technology
Maker of MySmartChannels and the MyST Web Services Platform.
Ideal for Corporate Blogging and Knowledge Management. MySmartChannels
is an Application Framework Server that lets anyone quickly
and easily publish, organize, and reuse information in a secure
Web environment. Beneath the MySmartChannels interface lies
a powerful Web services platform that provides a solid foundation
for corporate blogging, knowledge management (KM), enterprise
collaboration (EC), and a collection of services for solving
a wide variety of content-oriented problems.
Blogging Tools (Server-Installed)
WordPress
An Open-source (free) state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing
platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
Lots of features and ease of installation make this a popular
choice for bloggers. Click
here for Wordpress tips and tools.
Movable
Type
A powerful, customizable publishing system, which installs on
web servers to enable bloggers to manage and update weblogs.
This enables a blogger to hand edit the other parts and pages,
including the Daily Links, in TextPad. You can use a date format
string for the individual entries, and for monthlies. Movable
Type includes a default RSS Feed.
Server-Side
Blog Software
This chart displays attributes of different user-installed blog
software packages side-by-side for comparison. Only server-installed
scripts are included in this list.
pMachine
PHP/MySQL system with many features beyond weblog
maintenance, including mailing lists and dynamic content management.
Blog Add-Ons
Wordpress
Plugins and Themes
BloggingPro has lots of information and links to
beautiful Wordpress themes and some very useful plugins.
Wordpress
Styles
The styles listed on this page work with the default WordPress
template and can be used with my CSS Style Switcher. Download
these award-winning Wordpress templates and give your blog a
unique look and feel. More Free
Wordpress templates
FeedWordPress
An Atom/RSS aggregator for WordPress. It syndicates content
from newsfeeds that you select into your WordPress blog; if
you syndicate several newsfeeds then you can WordPress’s
posts database and templating engine as the back-end of an aggregation
(”planet”) website.
Blogboxes
Free , Open-source internet applications for your blog or wiki.
They provide exciting, instantly deployed functionality and
are free for non-commercial use.
Blogrolling
BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist you can use
for your blog. The blog helps you to manage your need for constantly
evolving linklist with ease.
Other Blogging Tools
BOP
BOP Stands for "Blog Oriented Publishing",
an open source database-backed system written in perl. Still
in early alpha and looking for contributors.
WikiWeblogPM
A "page of links on research about things
relevant to software that would combine the best features of
existing wiki, weblog and PIM software."
FactoSystem
Weblog (ASP based)
Facto is a collaborative web publishing system. The system can
be used for creating personal or group 'Blog' type sites. It
is written entirely in Active Server Pages (ASP) and can use
Microsoft Access or SQL Server as a database backend. The operating
system that is required is Windows 95/98/2000 and the programming
languages used are ASP and JavaScript. It is mostly used for
message boards and site management.
InstaBlog
InstaBlog appeared as a result of two things: responding to
the simplest possible way to maintain a weblog, and trying out
the extremely cool Perl MSN IM client. InstaBlog functions in
the following manner: it is run as a background process on a
machine with Internet access. With its own Passport identification
it is constantly logged into the MSN instant messenger service.
When something worthy of note is found in the weblog, chat windows
is opened with the InstaBlog and the weblog entry is typed.
The software takes it, adds it to a copy of the weblog it maintains,
and uploads it via FTP to a webserver.
OpenJournal
OpenJournal is a completely Web-based interface. The software's
features include: automated file creation; automated index updating;
editing of all files through a Web-based interface; entries
with or without titles and time posted; automated archiving
based on a weekly or monthly format. All done through ordinary
text files and no additional perl modules are needed to run
it. Basically, the software allows the users to keep an online
journal, customize and configure it. All needed to do after
installation is to write in it from time to time. It requires
no third-party, external perl libraries or support programs.
The program itself is relatively small and simple and takes
about 5 minutes to install and another 5 or 10 to customize.
GeekLog
- The Ultimate Weblog System
GeekLog is a web content management system suitable for running
full-featured community sites. It supports article posting,
threaded comments, event scheduling, and link management and
is built around a design philosophy that emphasizes ease of
use. The development status of the software is 5 - Production/Stable.
The programming language that has been used is PHP and functions
mostly to maintain dynamic content.
Commenting Systems
aspcomments
Free ASP-based comment system for use on Blogger-backed and
other weblogs.
BlogBack
Comment system that does not require server installation.
blogKomm
PHP-based system to integrate comments directly into a blog
cgiComments
Free perl-based comment system for use on Blogger-backed and
other weblogs.
dotcomments
Free PHP-based comment system for use on Blogger-backed and
other weblogs.
Enetation
Free hosted commenting system
SnorComments
Hosted commenting system for Blogger-based blogs
YACCS
Commenting made simple
Posting APIs and Tools
AvantBlog
Posting from Palm or Windows CE via AvantGo
BLog
Web services interface to (I think) Blogger.
blogBuddy
Windows front-end to Blogger.
Bloggenmoz
Blogger API support for Mozilla Composer
Blogger
API
Details of the XML-RPC interface to Blogger
BloggerBot
AIM client for Blogger.
bloggerCOM
COM interface to the Blogger API
blogger.el
EMACS module to post using the Blogger API
BlogniX
Blogger client for Linux
BlogScript
Mac OS X.1 tool for easy posting to Blogger-powered blogs.
