1. WordPress
WordPress Homepage
URL: http://wordpress.org/
WordPress is the Daddy of the Blogging Platform, can’t see anyone knocking it of the top spot for a long time yet.
Licence: Free.
Forum: WordPress Forum.
Features: W3C compliant, easy to edit templates,create non-blog pages (ie. Homepage), update and maintain numerous Blog Rolls,thousands of themes available, cross-blog communication tools, comments, trackbacks, pingbacks,spam protection, optional user registration,password protect posts or pages,easy to upgrade, import from another blogging platform, allows multiple authors, bookmarklets, plugins…and the list goes on and on.
2. TextPattern
TextPattern Homepage
URL: http://www.textpattern.com/
Main contender to WordPress, more or less the same features, just doesn’t have the support from the internet community.
Licence: Free.
Forum: TextPattern Forum.
Features: Easy publishing using textile, a text-to-HTML converter, preview post or page,compliant XHTML and CSS, tag-based template system which allows the creation of reusable blocks of content and code,comments, trackbacks, pings, spam protection system, built-in site statistics,RSS and Atom,plugins, built-in CSS editor, link management system, image management system,integrated file management system… and like WordPress the list goes on and on.
3. Moveable Type
Moveable Type Homepage
URL: http://www.movabletype.org/
Licence: Free.
Forum: Moveable Type Forum.
Features: The first to use trackBack, Unlimited weblogs, static and dynamic publishing, can create standalone pages asset and file manager, customized User roles, customizable templates, plugins / extensions, tags, categories, sub-categories…
4. Serendipity
Serendipity Homepage
URL: http://www.s9y.org/
Licence: Free.
Forum: Serendipty Forum.
Features: Designed for users of all technical levels, anti-spam, comment, trackbacks, pings,plugins, skinable, easy to upgrade, flexible input/output, choose between HTML, Textile, Wiki, BBCode and other markups (I like this feature), and many more of the standard features not worth repeating.
5. LifeType
LifeType Homepage
URL: http://lifetype.net/
Licence: Free.
Forum: Life Type Forum.
Features: integrated media management, smarty templates, plugins, spam filter, installation wizard, moblogging, multi blog, nice looking URLs (strange for a feature), XMLRPC interface for remote creating and editing articles. And of course you may ping as many directories as you like with the inbuilt XMLRPC ping service…
6. Flatpress
Flatpress Homepage
URL: http://www.flatpress.org/home/
Licence: Free.
Forum: Flatpress Forum.
Features: standard-compliant, plugin support, Widget system, easy to customize with themes (powered by Smarty). To be honest there aren’t a lot of features, but I do like the bare bones system which does exactly what it says: I AM A BLOG!
7. Wheatblog
Wheatblog Homepage
URL: http://wheatblog.sourceforge.net/
Licence: Free.
Forum: Wheatblog Forum.
Features: The features on Wheatblog are much and such the same as Flatpress.
8. sBlog
sBlog Homepage
URL: http://sblog.se/wiki/Main_Page.
Licence: Free.
Forum: sBlog Forum.
Features: Again, as Flatpress and Wheatblog, basic features. Something appealing about that. Clean and Simple.
9. Eggblog
Eggblog Homepage
URL: http://eggblog.net/.
Licence: Free.
Forum: Eggblog Forum.
Features: Basic features.
10. Loudblog
Loudblog Homepage
URL: http://www.loudblog.com/.
Licence: Free.
Forum: Loudblog Forum.
Features: LoudBlog is a sleek and easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS) for publishing media content on the web. It automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting. Just upload your audio/video files, add some notes and links, and you’re done! (I love the idea of this).