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 <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > Rethinking CPAN - http://shlom.in/rethinking-cpan > > Chuck Norris read the entire English Wikipedia in 24 hours. Twice. > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
