I use Wordpress that I installed and hosted myself on a godaddy cheapie virtual host - mostly for the experience. You could use the hosted version( wordpress.com) which is free I think? I'm very happy with Wordpress and it seems to be oone of the most popular platforms.
Cheers, Saul On 18 May 2011 08:56, ERIC P. CHARLES <e...@psu.edu> wrote: > Hey all, > Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. > Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff > seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for > some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different blogging > platforms. I do, in theory, have the ability to host it myself, or to use > Penn State's in-house system, but my initial inclination is to go with an > established entity that makes it easy to do things like track other blogs > and track user stats. I'm not even sure what other factors I should care > about. > > Again, any collective wisdom would be appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Eric > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Saul Caganoff Enterprise IT Architect Mobile: +61 410 430 809 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scaganoff
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