Scot Hacker has posted to his O’ReillyNET blog about his process for choosing a blog tool for U.C. Berkeley’s Journalism School’s upcoming Intellectual Property Weblog course:
Our criteria for blogging software for the class were:
- Must allow multiple authors (this is to be a team/group blog)
- Should be low cost or free, ideally open source
- We want to host it ourselves rather than using 3rd party servers
- Ideally searchable
- Should have some kind of CMS (Allow posting of drafts, which other editors approve)
- Commentable
- Searchable
- Easy posting from Macs (bookmarklets, hotkey for hyperlinks within a web form)
- RSS syndication and, ideally, aggregation
Scot’s analysis is interesting, although I think he’s mistaken about bookmarklets. I have no problem using Blogger’s bookmarklets in IE/Mac, and RadioExpress! works fine on the Mac too, although it doesn’t pick up raw HTML.