blog software

[Stephen Adler]

Thanks for the Blog software comments. Someone e-mailed me with a 
comment that a form package would be more appropriate than a blog 
package. I'm thinking I would agree on that one. Any comments on when 
one should use a blog interface to a web site and when one should use a 
forum interface?

Cheers. Steve.

Underhill, Larry wrote:
>
> On Sep 14, 2008, at 8:29 AM, Stephen Adler wrote:
>
>> Guys, I'm thinking of setting up a blog site. Is there any OS blog
>> software or package you guys can recommend?
>
> I have run a family site using blog software for 7 years now. The 
> first iteration was my own code. I then moved on to moveabletype and 
> currently run wordpress.
>
> I can heartily recommend both moveabletype and wordpress.
>
> I like moveabletype because I am competent in perl and I find the code 
> be easy to understand (without reading much documentation, I was able 
> to use their internal classes to write a program to extract years 
> worth of entries and create a printable PDF).
>
> I currently use wordpress despite my dislike of PHP. I find it very 
> customizable and the both the themes and plugins community makes it 
> very easy to create a site that fits your needs with a reasonable 
> amount of effort.
>
> I like both of the admin interfaces.
>
> --Larry
>