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This section looks at several Macintosh-friendly blogging options. Blogs are happening no doubt about it. Some estimates claim that there are 60 million blogs on the Web as of August 2005. There is no telling how many of these are kept up to date, as with any fad, a lot of people start blogs and then lose interest. But blog tracker Technorati claims that about half a million new blog posts appear daily, and a Pew Internet study found that 27 percent of Internet users say they read blogs. TypePad is the only service that offers an easy Web form for customizing or creating a design. The program WordPress is free and open source and it offers the same core features as Movable Type: unlimited authors, entry categories, comments, trackbacks and a built-in public search function. MarsEdit can assign multiple categories, save local drafts of unfinished posts and store custom Hypertext Markup Language tags. Where it distinguishes itself is its clean, uncluttered interface. Ranchero's Web site boasts that MarsEdit makes blogging as easy as writing an email and for the most part, they are right. If one's blog provider will not allow image uploads, Flickr is the way to go. This service for hosting and sharing photographs woks with all the major blog services and software packages. |
