Blogware is a general term encompassing software to create, edit, manage and publish weblogs (blogs). The word originates from conjunction of the two words, software and blogs. Blogware can be compared to Content Management System (CMS) software. Blogware is usually considered to be the easier to use of the two. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... The first use of the term weblog. ... In computing, a content management system (CMS) is a system used to organize and facilitate collaborative creation of documents and other content. ...

Blogware may be commercial off-the-shelf "boxed" software, shareware, server-installed open source scripts or a hosted service. Examples include Movable Type by Six Apart, b2evolution, WordPress, TypePad, Blogger, LiveJournal, JourURL and blogware Shareware is a marketing method for software, whereby a trial version is distributed without payment ahead of time as is common for proprietary software. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Movable Type is a proprietary weblog publishing system developed by California-based Six Apart. ... Six Apart Ltd. ... b2evolution is a multi-lingual, multi-user, multi-blog publishing system written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database. ... WordPress is a web publishing system (a. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Blogger logo Blogger is a service created by Pyra Labs that provides Web-based tools used by individuals to publish to the Web. ... LiveJournal (often abbreviated LJ) is the name of a weblog site allowing Internet users to keep an online journal or diary. ...

The majority of free blogware requires you to own your own web server. There are only two exceptions, Blogger and LiveJournal, to this that offer free hosting and free software. Most of different types of blogware is considered to be free, usually the license is GPL or BSD License. Most blogware requires that the webserver run PHP and MySQL. Since this software runs on multiple types of Operating Systems(OS) it is not clear what is the most common type of OS is. It is certain that blogware requires that the web server be running either Apache HTTP Server or Internet Information Server. The term web server can mean one of two things: a computer responsible for serving web pages, mostly HTML documents, via the HTTP protocol to clients, mostly web browsers; a software program that is working as a daemon serving web documents. ... The GNU logo For other uses of GPL, see GPL (disambiguation). ... The BSD license is an acronym for the Berkeley Software Distribution license agreement, and is a leading license for free software (a subset of open source software). ... PHP is a popular open-source, reflective programming language used mainly for developing server-side applications and dynamic web content, and more recently, other software. ... MySQL logo MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL (Structured Query Language) Database Management System (DBMS) with an estimated six million installations. ... In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ... // Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix-like systems (BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems), Microsoft Windows, Novell Netware and other platforms. ... IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services or Server) is a set of Internet based services for Windows machines. ...

All types of blogware allows for people to post information to the internet if they know English, but a number of different Languages are normally supported. The languages of industrialized nations are the ones that are offered. During the installation process is when a person would select what language they want blog in.

Blogware usually offers a type of web syndication service either in the form of RSS or Atom. This allows for other software such as feed aggregators to maintain a current summary of the content that the blogger posts about. Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. ... RSS is an abbreviation for: RSS, a group of XML based web-content distribution and republication (Web syndication) formats primarily used by news sites, weblogs (blogs), and podcasts. ... Atom is an XML-based document format and HTTP-based protocol designed for the syndication of Web content such as weblogs and news headlines to Web sites as well as directly to user agents. ... A news aggregator is a software application, webpage or service that collects syndicated content from disparate sources and provides a consolidated view. ...

Post Moderation is something that requires people who want to comment on articles that are posted on a blog to be approved before the comments are visible to the world. It could also mean in some cases where multiple people have accounts and the ability to post new items to the blog that new content must be approved by a moderator or administrator before it shows up on the main page. The different types of blogware come with varying types of user account systems allowing people to post comments to a particular blog. For instance if you have an account with Blogger than you have the ability to post on any Blogger blog. Other types of blogware require a person to have an user account that is local to that blog only inorder to post content or comments.

The Post API can vary greatly depending on the system that you are using. Some types of Blogware have plugins to Firefox that integrate into a person's menus so that when you right click on selected text on anygiven webpage it will bring up a small window that allows a person to post to their blog. JustBlogIt is the name of one such extension. Other types of blogware that do not have this type of interface require a person to fill out a form online. The form that is required for posting materal to a blog depends on the type of blogware. Some types such as Moveable Type contain a greater number of form fields and choices than ones such as Blogger. All types of blogware allow for linking to thumbnails within a blog post. There is a separate genere of blogging that deals primarly with images called Photo Blogging. Firefox redirects here. ...

Community Support and Documentation is an important differance when it comes to blogware, since the installation of some types of software requires an advanced knowledge of computer administration. The web servers and database software can be more difficult to install than the blogware itself. Also a strong and active community surrounding the blogware is important when it comes to integrating the blogware into a personal site. It is generally regarded that the WordPress community support to be one of the best available.

While all blogware is different, they seem to offer some common features such as facilitating authoring and editing of blog posts or articles, various linking and syndication features, and the ability to easily publish the blog on the world wide web.

Some services or organizations are also creating blogware with extended features to aid communication such as surveys in The TeleInterActive Press or wiki capability in Socialtext

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