If you are looking for just the right blog tool or software but you are tired of trying to compare them all side by side check out this site that was created by someone who felt the same way: Blog Software Breakdown. The chart displays the attributes of different user-installed blogging software packages in a side-by-side comparison. These are only for server-installed scripts for the self-hosted blogging community (not Radio, Blogger, etc.).
Check out bBlog, which is a 'powerful, elegant personal publishing system written in PHP and released as free, Open Source software under the GPL.' It is a flexible but simple way to blog that works for blogging beginners, and can grow into a more advanced user's needs. It is currently used by thousands of bloggers world-wide and has the features you expect and even advanced capabilities including advanced comment spam prevention and threaded comments.
Here you can check out Al Macintyre's Radio weblog, which tries to provide an impartial directory of different vendors that provide software for Weblogging. He also has an article as an introduction to how to start your search for software. He also provides a do-it-yourself consumer reports on how to compare software suites to each other.
If you are a software author, developer or publisher Software Marketing Resource might be of interest to you. Some of the categories on this site are:
- Adware options
- Auction sites
- Beta testing
- Affiliate programs
- Demo tools
- Marketing articles
- Message boards
- Pay per click
- And more
About.com has a slew of software programs for you to search through here are just a few:
- Blogger.com
- Drupal
- Greymatter
- LiveJournal
- MindSay
- Movable Type
- DeadJournal
- And more