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 Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
