w.bloggar
I think I must be pretty behind on this. But I just found
w.bloggar, a blogger API where you can post and edit your entries. It's compatible with Blogger, too!
It can post and publish on
Blogger,
b2,
MovableType,
Nucleus,
BigBlogTool,
BlogWorks XML Blogalia,
Drupal,
Xoops,
E-Xoops,
Upsaid,
PostNuke,
TheBlog,
Blog-City,
blojsom,
Roller Weblogger,
Domino.
I am browsing through more material about blogging and I bumped into this
site. It talks briefly about how to optimizing blogs for search engines.
That's not something that caught my attention enough to post an entry here.
While reading, after about 7 seconds or so on that page, some text became links with underline, where they were just plain text before. When I move my mouse over it, it pops up a little note, to be exact, text advertisement, of the selected word.
"
What is that?"
It's something called IntelliTXT. In their own words, "IntelliTXT enhances and helps support this content by delivering relevant messages in a user-controlled format. IntelliTXT helps empower users to view relevant advertising on their own terms."
So, after google's text advertisement, there's this form of pop-up text ads. I would say, this is more annoying. A LOT more annoying because when you are moving your mouse, you see a bunch of ads popping out from the screen. I like to select text when I read, this method of advertisement does not work for me.
Anyhow, just another new finding today. Along with SEO for blogs...
I have been looking into different alternatives of blogging software lately. It's a hassle having to install, re-install, and remove in order to try out different systems. It's a BIIIG hassle. Then I bumped into this site..
Open Source CMS:
http://www.opensourcecms.com/
Open Source CMS allows you to try out some PHP/MySQL based, open source/free software without the hassle of having to do the installation yourself. You have administrative rights to all those system. And the demos are refreshed/re-installed back to originally state every 2 hours, so you don't need to worry about messing something up.
It's a pretty neat idea, I say! But I still yet need to try it out myself. ;p More about it later.
Blogging choices...
I think I am doomed...
At first, I knew about xanga. It was cool, I said. You can customize the skin and stuff. And it's easy to setup. But for the pretty look, I paid for the premium membership.
Then I tried blogger. I said, this is cooler! Google acquired blogspot, so now it's free, and it has almost all the features I liked from xanga. Oh, except there aren't as many skins out there for blogger than for xanga. But hey, it's free, what do you expect?
Then I decided to explore more. I need something with categories, like in
Gizmodo, so I can browse through easier. I want something with different access level, like some posts can only be viewed by certain members. I had a fairly clear picture in mind in terms of what I would want.
Then I did some research on Google on alternatives. To my surprise, there are more than a dozen choices out there! A few I found that are most popular are: Movable Type, pMachine, b2evolution, WordPress, TypePad, Nuclues, etc.
This is overwhelming! I don't know if I want to try all of them before deciding, but now it seems that to make a critical and picky choice like I usually do, I HAVE TO try every single one..
*sigh.. Anybody already done comparison on them?
I found one website that comments on comparisons of some of them:
How To Blog
More reviews will come later, after I try some of them.
To be continued...
Update - more sites with reviews and comparisons:
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Blogware Choice
