While it's possible to generate and maintain a blog by writing and updating each page by hand, you'd have to be a masochist to do so. The remainder of this book is devoted to several tools that automate the administrivia of blogging: Blogger, Radio UserLand, Movable Type, and Blosxom.This isn't the full spectrum of blogging tools — products such as Greymatter, Manila, LiveJournal, and others all have strong user bases.
The tools we've chosen to cover in-depth, though, represent various niches in the blogging spectrum — some are for gurus, some are for novices; some require you to install software on your PC, some can be run completely from afar; some work with your own domain, others host your blog for you; and so on.This section discusses the features of several blog management systems, not just the ones we describe in detail in the book. Table 1-1 lists the systems covered in this section and their URLs.After reading this section, you can make an informed decision about which tool is right for you.
Blogger http://www.blogger.com/
Blogger Pro http://pro.blogger.com/
Blosxom http://www.raelity.org/lang/perl/blosxom/
Greymatter http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/
LiveJournal http://www.livejournal.com/
Manila http://manila.userland.com/
Movable Type http://www.movabletype.org/
Radio UserLand http://radio.userland.com/
Slash http://www.slashcode.org/
Zope http://www.zope.org/
