What is each, free blogging platform good at?

I’ve gotten tired of WordPress and I’m searching for some nice alternatives, but how lucky can I get? Or will I be finding out  that there’s nothing better than the WordPress king, who knows… These are the things that seemed important throughout the first 2 pages of Google Search Results:

• the best blogging platform – Google Search

  Give us the BEST you have!

Top 10 Free Blogging Platforms & Features For Web Designers

• WordPress

• Features: blog rolls,thousands of themes available, cross-blog communication tools, comments, trackback, optional user registration, allows multiple authors…

• TextPattern
  • Main contender to WordPress, more or less the same features, just doesn’t have the support from the internet community.
    • Here is bold statement!
• Loudblog
  • automatically generates a skinnable website and an RSS-Feed for Podcasting.
    • I’ll keep this in mind.

Choosing a Blog Platform

• WordPress.com has quite limited design options (for instance you can’t ad ads to templates making it a poor choice to make money with)
  • Yes, very true! Limited design has been a big bump in the road for me too.

Five Best Blogging Platforms

• Blogger (Web-Based, Free)
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  • supports drag-and-drop template editing, dynamic updating,
    • sounds interesting
  • geo-tagging for location-based blogging,
    • OMG! What’s that? )

• Tumblr (Web-Based, Free)
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  • appeals to a lot of people and the ease of setup coupled with its informality
  • Tumblr is a winning combination for people who aren’t looking to commit to a blog as an involved and time-consuming project.

• WordPress (Web-Based, Free)
  • once you get it up and running you’re rewarded with a nearly limitless array of options, configurations, and plug-ins.
    • Mm, not so limitless!
• Posterous (Web-Based, Free)
  • Simply email post@posterous.com from any email account and Posterous will create a YourName.Posterous.com blog for you.
  • it’s impressive how much you can do through the Posterous system with a single email.
    • This one is for the lazy guy who wants to post articles using his e-mail account!

The 10 Best Blogging Platforms

• WordPress (Self-Hosted or Hosted)
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  • is the current king of blogging platforms.
  • It’s easy to use and very flexible.
    • I have to dissagree! When I first started using WordPress I was overwhelmed by it’s complex administration pannel! But, as I have only used WordPress, and played with Blogger, Joomla and Drupal, so maybe WordPress is really the easiest to use.
  • What really makes WordPress stand out is the sheer number of free and premium themes

• Blogger (Hosted)
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  • people making the choice between it and WordPress typically go with the latter.
• Posterous (Hosted)
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  • is intended to be a quick and easy way to share thoughts and media.
    • You mean like Facebook?
• MovableType (Self-Hosted)
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  • It still lags behind WordPress in some aspects but when they brought the platform to the open source arena, it’s made some amazing improvements.
• ExpressionEngine (Self-Hosted)
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  • is a feature rich and powerful platform that, while used for blogs, is also used for much more complex sites thanks to its flexibility
• Joomla (Self-Hosted)
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  • it’s easy to create almost any kind of site with it
    • It’s even more complicated then WordPress, but maybe it’s just me!
• Penzu (Hosted)
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  • is most similar to a journal or diary
  • the platform is focused more around you writing (like you would in a notebook, journal, etc) than spending time messing about with a control panel (as you would in WordPress).
    • Ok, now there’s a fresh breeze..