— John Hiler has his survey of weblog tools up at The Microcontent News Blogging Software Roundup – Part One of the Weblog Industry Report
I’ve hoped for a while now that someone would sort out this weblog fruit basket, so we could compare apples-to-apples and oranges-to-oranges. So far, it hasn’t happened… so over the last few weeks, I finally broke down and took a crack at it myself.
If you want the job done right, sometimes you’ve got to do it yourself. As interesting as the survey is, it strikes me that the reason blogs took off around 2000 or so wasn’t so much the tools as it was the free services offered by Blogger and others. It’s not really that much easier to update a website with Blogger or Movable Type than with Netscape Composer, but with Blogspot you don’t need to own your own web site. Anyhow, the tools are getting better and better, and within a few months we’ll have some serious power, whether poor old John has been excommunicated or not.