Free Blog Publishing Software
WordPress
http://www.wordpress.org
WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
Blogger
http://www.blogger.com
a blog is your easy-to-use website, where you can quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. All for FREE.
Movable Type
http://www.moveabletype.org
Movable Type is the premiere weblog publishing tool for individuals, organizations, and web developers.
Greymatter
http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft
With fully integrated comments, searching, file uploading and image handling, completely customizable output through dozens of templates and variables, multiple author support, and many other features while having perhaps the simplest installation process and easiest-to-use interface of any program offering this level of functionality.
LiveJournal
http://www.livejournal.com
LiveJournal is a simple-to-use (but extremely powerful and customizable) personal publishing ("blogging") tool, built on open source software.
Xanga
http://www.xanga.com
Xanga is a community of online diaries and journals. You can easily start your own free journal, share thoughts with your friends and meet new friends, too!
Fee-based Blog Publishing Software
Blog Harbor (this host)
http://www.blogharbor.com
BlogHarbor offers the easiest and most powerful way to start publishing on the web. With easy-to-use templates and advanced weblogging features, beginners and power bloggers alike find BlogHarbor weblogs the best personal publishing solution available today!
TypePad
http://www.typepad.com
TypePad is a powerful, hosted weblogging service that gives users the richest set of features to immediately share and publish information like travel logs, journals and digital scrapbooks on the Web. TypePad lets people communicate, publicly or privately, with the audience of their choosing.
SquareSpace
http://www.squarespace.com/do/display/external/Frontpage
Squarespace is a managed (no downloads) publishing service that lets you effortlessly maintain complex multi-page websites.
Quikonnex
http://www.quikonnex.com
The philosophy behind the development of Quikonnex is to create an email-alternative publishing system which keeps publishers and their subscribers "quickly" connected. Q Channels offer two-way communications, with both comments and QMTP, so that subscribers can respond to their publishers right in their channels, no email necessary. Free web conferencing, which is available to all members, is another way for individuals and small to medium business owners to stay "quikly" connected to their customers.
UserLand
http://www.userland.com
UserLand Software is a leading provider of website and weblog publishing tools for organizations and individuals.
Blog Editing Client-Based Software
WB Editor 2
http://www.wbeditor.com
WB Editor is the desktop blogging tool that provides a word processor like interface, RSS aggregator integration, remote blog management, trackback ping, category management, file upload, local blog storage and more other features.
Read my review of WB Editor 2 here.
w.bloggar (freeware)
http://www.wbloggar.com
The w.bloggar is an application that targets it to be an interface between the user and his blog(s), in other words, is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors cannot offer. Another great advantage of w.bloggar is that it is compatible with most of the weblog systems available, allowing an advanced user to have one only interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, under different publishing systems.
BlogJet
http://www.blogjet.com
BlogJet is a weblog client for Windows that allows you to manage your blog without opening a browser. It is easy to use and elegant.
Read my review of BlogJet 1.2 Beta here.
Blapp
http://blapp.sourceforge.net/
Web home of Blapp, a Mac OS X blosxom weblog editor.
XJournal
http://www.speirs.org/xjournal/
Xjournal is a Mac OS X client for the Livejournal.com weblog service.
