CategoryBlogging Tools and Services

TECH has a WordPress.com Review – written on an actual wordpress.com blog. I’ve been invited into the alpha testing also and from what I’ve seen so far it’s shaping up to be a great system. I’m looking forward to seeing what features they add as it moves towards a beta ...more

Duncan has been invited to Alpha test WordPress.com and has been documenting his set up and initial impressions of it here. His actual testblog is over here (not much to see yet). I’ve been asked if I want an invitation and have replied in the affirmative and am awaiting the ...more

I think Robert Scoble is onto something when he says that having a single ‘top blog’ type list is pretty useless. He writes: ‘The whole concept of a single list is just stupid and doesn’t add any value. The thing is there isn’t a single blogosphere. There are thousands of ...more

Ads on Blogs (a newish blog – to me at least) has a list of Useful Blog Forums for those interested in discussing the ins and outs of blogging. Do many here use blog specific forums? I have to admit to not using them much – if I go to ...more

Movable Type 3.2 is out of Beta and ready for downloading. I’m seriously considering upgrading a few of my older blogs to it to give it a go and compare it to WordPress (which runs all my new blogs). MT 3.2 is a free update if you’re updating from 3.X ...more

Do you want to know what WordPress.com (a new and upcoming service of WordPress) is? If so I recommend you head over to Lorelle’s blog and read What can you do with wordpress.com. Looks like a great service – although perhaps a little further off going live than I thought ...more

Blogger at last seems to be doing something about the rise of Spam Blogs and Comment spam on Blogger.com blogs with two new features – a “Flag” button which allows readers to report questionable content to Blogger and Word Verification for Comments which aims to attack comment spam (optional feature). ...more

Six Apart got a lot of criticism with it’s previous releases of Movable Type for not allowing unlimited free use of it’s platform. Mena has announced that this will change with the upcoming release of MT 3.2. She writes: ‘with version 3.2, *all users* will be entitled to unlimited weblogs. ...more

It looks like WordPress is going to be launching a new service at WordPress.com. Word on the street is that it will be a service to compete with Six Apart’s TypePad – a hosted blog service using the WordPress platform. WordPress chief, Matt Mullenweg, made the announcement at the Blog ...more