This is part of a larger, ongoing series which examines how – in 2005 / 2006 – you can give people blogs. Visit the contents page to see the lot (or suggest more content!) or grab the feed to keep up with new stuff!

Alright, hands up first off because while WPMU is the last multi-blogging tool I’m reviewing, it was also the first one on the list as it’s the tool that I use for projects such as edublogs and prblogs. Still, this doesn’t make it necessarily the *best* multi blogging solution out there… just the one that…

This is part of a larger, ongoing series which examines how – in 2005 / 2006 – you can give people blogs. Visit the contents page to see the lot (or suggest more content!) or grab the feed to keep up with new stuff!

Manila and Userland software, driven by Dave Winer, were the pioneers of blogging, RSS and social software back in the day… my first blog was powered by Radio Userland and, in some significant ways, the design functionality and application of these tools is amazingly insightful.

A simple feature list of the software…

The Antipodean points to an article in the Age in which:

“Federal Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull has called for the Government to give every Australian their own email address for life.”

Sometimes being an Aussie can be a tad frustrating…

I mean, I think it was a year and a half ago that the NSW govt splashed out $84 million on providing every frickin school with email.

This really has to stop.

For the same amount of money the government could provide every single Australian with their own fully featured Content Management System / Blog.

We have the tools and…

Update: due to a trademark dispute with Amazon, pLog is now ‘LifeType’ and lives here instead (better name anyway I reckon!), This is part of a larger, ongoing series which examines how – in 2005 / 2006 – you can give people blogs. Visit the contents page to see the lot (or suggest more content!) or grab the feed to keep up with new stuff! pLog seems to be somewhat the forgotten gem of open source blogging solutions and well worth checking out for anyone examining this area. Not that I’m the first to kinda like what’s offered here, for…

Duncan Riley promoted a lot of discussion with his Demise of the Geek Bloggers post over at Blog Herald (and rediscovered by TurboBlogger) and I reckon he’s got a good point.

But what he, and a lot of the commentators don’t seem to get, or at least latch onto, is that we’re not looking at the rise of consumer blogs, extrovert blogs or even a demise in geek bloggers… what’s catching on is a rise in genuine problogging… professionals who blog.

It started earlier in IT (obviously) and has been picked up and ran with by education (another regular early…