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Top 10 blog product popularity according to del.icio.us

Posted on July 19, 2006 by Zoran Kovačević

Last november, I made a list of blog product popularity according to del.icio.us users. Because it is a popular entry page for this blog and since we are almost 8 months further, I thought I’d update the list. Between brackets you can see the relative increase.

As you can see, there is not much difference since the last count. pMachine and Blosxom have switched positions. Drupal is still considered a CMS, but making inroads in blog tag count.

As for the accuracy of this method … it’s better than nothing :)

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Serendipity 1.0 released!

Posted on July 2, 2006 by Zoran Kovačević

I was away on holiday, so perhaps I am a little late, but Serendipity 1.0 final is out!

“The Serendipity Team is proud to announce the final release version of Serendipity 1.0, an advanced and flexible blogging/cms web application. With its comprehensive feature set, including multiple authors, internationalization, templated output, and an open plugin architecture, Serendipity’s stable 1.0 release is ready to become the most popular Web application in the world!”

Upgrading (and installing) is easy as 1-2-3 :) Give it a try.

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BackupMyBlog

Posted on May 14, 2006 by Zoran Kovačević

As they call it: “Automatic remote daily backup of your entire blog database”. You need to install a script that dumps your database to their backup facilities. Free, during beta testing.

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Blog product popularity according to del.icio.us

Posted on November 26, 2005 by Zoran Kovačević

I was wondering how popular Serendipity is compared to other weblog products. I first looked at the big list in Google Directory. This gives s9y a 10th place.

I wasn’t convinced by the importance of this list, so I started out bookmarking the ones with the highest pageranks in del.icio.us. From my del.icio.us page I made the following table, sorted by occurence count:

product
name		 del.icio.us
count		 tag
‘blog’
count		 tag
‘cms’
count
WordPress 2071 852 345
Drupal 1095 132 616
Blogger 1065 428 0
Textpattern 507 123 249
Movable Type 369 145 67
Blosxom 289 129 30
b2evolution 233 102 33
Serendipity 228 101 51
pMachine 190 49 90
Pivot 148 47 45
Roller 101 50 12
Geeklog 109 35 37
BBlog 84 36 9
Radio UserLand 60 18 4
PHP-Nuke 59 2 2
Slashcode 51 6 17
CommunityServer 43 15 0
City Desk 28 0 17
Das Blog 23 12 0

In this list, s9y has an 8th place by occurence count. When you take the tag count for ‘blog’ and ‘cms’ into account, you could argue that e.g. Drupal is more CMS software than blog software. Serendipity then gets an almost shared 5th place.
Not bad, coming from 10th place in Google Directory :)

On a side note: There are quite a lot of web CMS and blog products in an identity crises (‘What are we? Blog or CMS?’). Using folksonomy and the del.icio.us userbase, a conclusion can be made.
The occurence count is of course determined by the number of del.icio.us users. For this topic that’s okay, because they usually are into blogging and the likes. For other topics I’m not yet sure of the real value.

I’ve added CommunityServer, CityDesk and Das Blog after reading Chris Garret’s “Blog Software Reviews at a Glance”. Drop me a line in case I’ve missed more.

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Professional Blog Software Reviews

Posted on November 18, 2005 by Zoran Kovačević

Chris Garret writes interesting in-depth reviews of weblog software: “Over this series I will look at the various blogging systems available on the market. While there are no doubt any number of blog software reviews you could read, my focus will be on blogging software that will enable you to blog professionally and not just for fun.”

Unfortunately, Serendipity (my blog software of choice) is not mentioned. Or is that because I blog for fun? :)

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