This site is based on wordpress, as evidenced by the footers below. I chose wordpress becuase it offers the highest level of customization and ease of use. Now, I host my blog on my paid-for host, so I have a little more freedom in choosing what I want to see when I type in the URL. You can set up a free blog that in my opinion is far better than other free blog services…ahem..blogger…
Anyhoo, I love google but blogger could be better. That said, I chose wordpress for it’s famous five minute install requiring you to only know your SQL database information and host location. It worked like a charm, and I would highly recommend it.
Once you get wordpress installed, you have a myriad of ways to extend it, through the use of themes and plugins.
So that’s what the show is all about! It’s longer, and I stutter more, but it seemed to work. Thanks for listening!
Great podcast! WordPress is in fact a great choice – one I’d be using if I wasn’t such a cheapskate …
If someone wants the freedom of running their own blog but their web host doesn’t give them MySQL privileges (.mac, etc.), they might want to try Thingamablog. I’ve used it on various projects for several years now, and while it doesn’t do everything WordPress does, it’s a decent cross platform blogging alternative.
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/
http://www.haloscan.com/ (A free service that lets you add comments to a Thingamablog blog.)