Dori! You missed Live Journal in your review of blogging tools for the Mac.
- It’s free (but you can pay for more features.)
- It provides Atom and RSS feeds.
- It’s geared for use by groups of friends.
- You can post private entries.
- There’s a great Mac client for posting and managing entries.
- It consumes RSS/Atom, so you can use it as an aggregator.
LJ suffers from the assumption that it’s a wasteland of angsty kids. Feh, I use it to keep in touch with a far-flung group of friends who don’t want a “blog,” per se. And it’s impressive software: millions of users, thousands of queries.
The one thing I don’t like about LJ is the template system. It’s something only a Perl programmer would love.
Update: Dori says: we thought about including it, and I realized that every time I’ve seen LJ included in a similar piece, the LJ’ers screamed “WE’RE NOT BLOGGERS!” Consequently, we agreed to skip LJ in this one.
danah boyd’s written on the LJ/Blog culture gap.
