{"id":840,"date":"2002-07-26T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2002-07-27T01:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/07\/weblog-tool-survey\/"},"modified":"2002-07-26T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2002-07-27T01:17:56","slug":"weblog-tool-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/26\/weblog-tool-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Weblog tool survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#8212; John Hiler has his survey of weblog tools up at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microcontentnews.com\/articles\/blogware.htm\">The Microcontent News Blogging Software Roundup &#8211; Part One of the Weblog Industry Report<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;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&#8217;t happened&#8230;  so over the last few weeks, I finally broke down and took a crack at it myself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you want the job done right, sometimes you&#8217;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&#8217;t so much the tools as it was the free services offered by Blogger and others. It&#8217;s not really that much easier to update a website with Blogger or Movable Type than with Netscape Composer, but with Blogspot you don&#8217;t need to own your own web site. Anyhow, the tools are getting better and better, and within a few months we&#8217;ll have some serious power, whether poor old John has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microcontentnews.com\/entries\/20020724-1159.htm\">excommunicated<\/a> or not.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; John Hiler has his survey of weblog tools up at The Microcontent News Blogging Software Roundup &#8211; Part One of the Weblog Industry Report I&#8217;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&#8217;t happened&#8230; so over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/07\/26\/weblog-tool-survey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weblog tool survey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-dy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}