After 4 years of occasional upgrades with drupal it was time to look at the current state of blogging software and apart from the enormous pain of installing Open Source software — things have improved a tad.
Microsoft have a decent operating system in Windows 2008 and IIS7 is a huge improvement over what came before. MySQL is still required, which is not ideal, as is PHP, groan – but there are standard applications now to install and run all this mishmash – although maintenance of it all still remains unknown.
Looking at the current solutions Wordpress emerges as a powerful, popular and flexible blog solution with a huge support for themes and plugins. With Twitter, YouTube and Flickr handling constant news updates and photo and video feeds sites are becoming much more integrated and plugins are an important assistant here.
