Personally, i have never been overly interested in blogging, though, you could definetely write your own software pretty easily. The whole concept is extremely simple. Just a basic database insert/edit/delete.
Though it may be lacking in several (or many) areas, and may not be as good as xBlog Lite or Movable Type, I prefer to write my own. It gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling.
Thousand different paths
So many sterile ends
I chose the Devil's path
Never shall the sun kiss my face
And caress me with it's burning light
For I dwell in the shadows
And sleep side by side with death
Yes after getting my server set up recently im away to write one soon myself as i could never get xblog working and at that time i never had mysql so i couldnt use the others
my friend uses Moveable Type, he said it was hard to configure for him (I'm not sure how good he is at that kind of stuff though), but he likes it (used to use coranto).
Originally posted by fredmv WordPress and TextPattern are both reasonably popular and free. I've heard quite a few good things about both.
I think it's just a matter of time, but WP is going to become the best blogging tool, if it isn't already and many would say it is. There's just too many well known web design/developers jumping on the bandwagon for it not to be a major player. Being free and letting people tweak the code helps. Blogger will probably always be bigger just based on number of users, but WP is for anybody wanting to do serious blogging. Case in point, former MT users mention it is easier to install and convert a MT blog over to WP than it is to upgrade from one version of MT to the next.
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