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Calling for Blog Publishing Platform Reviewers

I want to commission reviews of the following blog publishing systems: WordPress pMachine ExpressionEngine GreyMatter iBlog Blosxom Manila Userland Radio Userland PHPNuke UPDATE: Based on your...

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WordPress Blog Publishing Platform Review

A couple of weeks ago, I put out a call for reviews of blog publishing platforms. I got a number of offers to review platforms, and several are now in the works. Strikingly, I got more offers to review...

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GreyMatter Blog Publishing Platform Review

Keeping the pace of these blog platform reviews hopping, here’s the next one about GreyMatter by Joni M. Mueller. I have to say, the review itself is great, very well-written, thorough and honest....

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Drupal Blog Publishing Platform Review

Our latest review of a blog publishing platform comes from Harold Jarche and Cameron Bales about Drupal. I knew relatively little about this platform, so I found this review particularly informative....

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What Do You Think of Blog-zilla?

I’m trying to decide if Blog-zilla is for real or a some type of blogspam program. I’d love to hear your thoughts, particularly if you’ve tried the thing.

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WordPress.com

I just received an invitation to set up a WordPress.com (com, not org) blog. I did, and I like it. The interface is clean and more compact than the admin interface I’m used to. They have several decent...

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Okay Paul … here’s my review of WordPress.com

Paul wrote a post yesterday about being invited to try the new hosted WordPress service.  He asked for a review … and well here are my thoughts thus far …   I’ve been playing with my new WordPress.com...

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SixApart talks openly to customers about bad stuff

SixApart is one of the companies largely responsible for the migration of blogging from personal musings to the small business and corporate world. Their hosted TypePad service has been wildly popular...

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Listen up SixApart: some of your TypePad customers may switch

Update: SixApart’s Anil Dash responds. As I wrote here and here a few weeks ago, I’m one of thousands running a business blog on TypePad. The service has been excruciatingly slow of late. (Just now I...

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Hosted blog platforms need to move to “business class”

I gather from my friends that TypePad had a little issue yesterday.  Okay, they were down or sluggish.  Blogware has had its share of problems too (Disclosure my personal blog is sponsored by...

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Is TypePad the Wrong Tool for Business Bloggers?

As many active bloggers out there know, TypePad has been paaaaaaaainfully slow lately. If you have a TypePad account, posting has been somewhere between difficult and impossible. Here at Business Blog...

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SixApart’s Mena and Ben Trott explain current problems with TypePad

Update (2 days later): SixApart’s CEO Barak Berkowitz provides more details. He posted his Message from the CEO to the TypePad blog and also sent it in an HTML email to customers: Dear Debbie,   As you...

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I’m sick of TypePad!

Okay, I’ve had it.  TypePad has been sluggish/down all morning (Pacific time) for me and I think their grace period is over.  I know that they’ve been having infrastructure problems.  I know theyÂ...

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More TypePad Time Outs

I was setting up a client’s new blogs in TypePad this afternoon when I got this error. You may wonder why I’m still using TypePad for blogging clients…I’m wondering the same thing myself. What’s more...

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WordPress.com is out of beta! Come and get your (better) free blog!

No more Golden Tickets required to get your own free WordPress.com blog.  The hosted, free WordPress blogging platform/service is now open to all.  I was lucky enough to get an invite early on and...

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iWeb: Apple’s New Blogging Platform

Announced during MacWorld earlier this week was the release of iWeb, a new part of iLife ’06. iWeb includes blogging software and integrates seemlessly into the rest of iLife, which includes iPhoto,...

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AWeber Offers Email Subscriptions to RSS Feeds

Many blogs offer email subscriptions to their blog, usually via Feedblitz or Bloglet. As I mentioned in a previous post, now AWeber, more well-known for its autoresponder service, is also offering an...

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TypePad Adds Technorati Tag Support

Adding Technorati tags to posts has never been easy in TypePad. In fact, I created a little movie a while back so that clients could watch it as many times as they like. But now TypePad has added a...

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Windows Desktop Blogging Software

Sometimes, writing blog entries via a web form just doesn’t work. That’s why I’m looking forward to Mariner Software’s new blogging client called WinJournal. The WinJournal name might be familiar since...

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