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Creating and publishing weblogs

Since their introduction, a number of software packages have appeared to allow people to create their own weblog. Blog hosting sites and Web services to provide editing via the Web have proliferated. Common examples include Blogger and LiveJournal.

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Software package - Blogger - LiveJournal

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Many more advanced bloggers prefer to generate their blogs by using server-side web applications such as Nucleus CMS, Movable Type, bBlog, WordPress, Drupal, b2evolution, boastMachine, Antville, Serendipity and Textpattern to publish on their own website or a third party site, or to host a group of blogs for a company or school. Such programs provide greater flexibility and power, but require more knowledge. If they provide a Web interface for editing, server-based systems make it easy for travelers to create and edit text; many travelers like to produce their travelblogs from Internet cafes while they travel around the globe.

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Nucleus CMS - Movable Type - BBlog - WordPress - Drupal - B2evolution - BoastMachine - Antville - Serendipity - Textpattern - School - Travelblog - Internet cafe

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In addition, some people program their own blogs from scratch by using PHP, CGI, ASP, Perl, ColdFusion or other server side software. While these are much more difficult to create, they add a maximum potential for creativity.

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PHP - CGI - ASP - Perl - ColdFusion - Creativity

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The phenomena of multi-blogging refers to individuals, businesses or institutions that maintain multiple blogs simultaneously. If one runs a single blog, technically they are a blogger; however if one creates, maintains, and runs 2, 10, 50, 100 or more blogs, they are a multi-blogger.

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Multi-blog - Blogger - Multi-blogger

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Two features which are common to blogging are "blogrolls" and "commenting" or "feedback."

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A blogroll is a list of other blogs that are linked separately from any article. This is one means by which a blogger creates a context for his blog, by listing other blogs that are similar to his/her own, or blogs the blogger thinks may be of relevance to users. It is also used as measure of the number of citations a blog has, and is used to rank "blog authority" in a manner similar to the way that Google uses hard coded HTML linking to create "page rank." Still another use of the "blogroll" is reciprocal linking: bloggers agree to link to each other, or link to another blog in hopes of getting a link in return.

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Blogroll - Google - HTML

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Another central, and sometimes controversial, aspect of blogging is the use of a feedback comment systems. A comment system allows users to post their own comments on an article or "thread." Some blogs do not have comments, or have a closed commenting system which requires approval from those running the blog. For other bloggers, including several very prominent ones, comments are the crucial feature which distinguishes a "true" blog from other kinds of blogs. Commenting can either be built into the software, or added by using a service such as HaloScan. If a blog has regular commenters, this is referred to as the blog's community.

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Feedback comment system - HaloScan

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Tools such as Ecto and w.bloggar allow users to maintain their Web hosted blog without the need to be online while composing or editing posts. Enhancements to weblog technology continue to be developed, such as the TrackBack feature introduced by Movable Type in 2002 and subsequently adopted by other software companies to enable automatic notification between websites of related content—such as a post on a particular topic or one which responds to a post on another blog http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/. bBlog has gone as far as implementing threaded trackbacks on comments, and comments on trackbacks.

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Ecto - W.bloggar - TrackBack - Movable Type - BBlog

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Blogs with features such as TrackBack are credited with complicating search engine page ranking techniques http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/33366.html http://www.sixapart.com/log/2003/10/its_all_about_c.shtml. Integrating these into search engines has proven to be a challenge, and has been used to deliberately "push" page rankings. However, as one Google executive remarked, it is the search engine's job to find the ways that a website represents a "vote" for another website.

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Web hosting companies and online publications also provide blog creation tools, such as Salon, Tripod, and America Online.

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Salon - Tripod - America Online

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