where i can get a free reliable public blog.

[Erez D]

I've started a blog at wordpress.com ( http://erezgt.wordpress.com/ )

Thank you all,
erez.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 Nov 2009 11:39:29 Erez D wrote:
>> hi
>>
>> i want to create a new linux/oss related blog (in english)
>>
>> any suggestions of where ?
>>
>
> As usual, you have many options:
>
> 1. I host a personal blog ( http://shlomif.livejournal.com/ ) and several more
> specialised blogs ( http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_tech/ ,
> http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_hsite/ ) on LiveJournal. I'm not
> paying for them, and I'm mostly happy with the feature set (there are nested
> comments, previews, edit-post-afterwards, and most other stuff) though a lot
> of stuff is missing (Digg/Reddit links, a share this button, more choice of
> skins/themes, etc.).
>
> It's possible you can get LiveJournal.com to use a domain hosted on your place
> (like blog.erez.tld) but I didn't look into it.
>
> 2. http://wordpress.com/ is a hosted WordPress solution that has become
> popular. It allows you to set up a URL on your own domain and also provides a
> full XML dump of all the data (to prevent vendor lock-in). However, many
> important WordPress plugins (such as preview for comments) are missing even in
> the premium, paid, package).
>
> 3. There's also http://www.blogger.com/ , which is nice, but may have a lot of
> vendor lock-in, but it lets you host the blog on your own domain. It has some
> very complex language for customising the template.
>
> It also restricts you to Google AdSense only, as being owned by Google.
> This is a problem for me as my Google AdSense account got suspended:
>
> http://community.livejournal.com/shlomif_hsite/11327.html
>
> Google has a near-monopoly on web-based ads and they provide horrible support
> there, despite the fact that it is their main source of income.
>
> 4. You can always host your blog on your own domain. There are many blog
> engines:
>
> * http://wordpress.org/ - seems to be the king of the hill, but is incredibly
> insecure, requires many plugins to get to a mostly usable state, and very
> buggy. (It ate at least two of my comments already, and the administrators
> could not know how to approve them, and I could not post them again, because
> they were too similar).
>
> * http://www.movabletype.org/ - written in Perl and should be much better
> internally than WordPress. It has a weirdo plain-HTML caching system, though,
> that I don't like. You probably need mod_perl or Fast-CGI for that if you're
> going to handle a good load, so the el-cheapo hosting packages won't work.
>
> It has this fork: http://openmelody.org/ , which might be better, though it is
> currently "under development".
>
> * There's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typo_%28software%29 , which is written
> in Ruby-on-Rails.
>
> * You can use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal as a glorified blog engine,
> but I found it lacking.
>
> * There are many others:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog_software
>
> -----------
>
> I'd like to move my blogs to something I host on my servers, but have yet to
> find a good engine for that. I think I may take a closer look on Melody.
> Altreus and I started writing something on our own, but it has stalled:
>
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/catable
>
> 5. It's not hard to find other hosted blogs. Some people keep a blog as a
> series of static HTML pages on their sites and then use a JavaScript-based
> commenting mechanism such as http://disqus.com/overview/ .
>
> ------------
>
> Regards,
>
>        Shlomi Fish
>
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