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…

It’s interesting to check out the responses to both the idea of WordPress.com, the use and the way it’s been launched.

Of course if you’ve tried out incsub blogs (now closed for new blogs) or edublogs then you’d already know all about what’s offered here in terms of functionality, moreorless. No invite required – although I’ll be patching that into edublogs asap so you can get your colleagues along.

What’s really interesting is the concept of Tbs of space, of quality tools (blogger anyone?) of stability and of non-commercial motivations.

And of course of WPMU and how we can translate…

Looks like I’m gonna have to add Adobe blogs to the mix… now, to find a *non* tech multi blogging corporate… gee!

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!

How can you give blogs with Movable Type?

No review of blogging tools is complete without an examination of Movable Type (MT) as one of the most mature, sophisticated and functional blogging platforms around. As a blog engine there’s little you can say to fault it, pretty much every feature you could ask for…