Thinking a lot lately about possible alternatives to Blogger, considering. My investigation so far has turned up nothing with the same set of advantages as the system I’m using right now. There’s LiveJournal, Pitas, EditThisPage, Radio Userland and Greymatter. LiveJournal is interesting, and even has a desktop client, but like Pitas it requres you to host the blog on some other server. EditThisPage uses the intriguing but programmery Manila system, which is cool, but still, you’re on someone else’s server. Radio lets you FTP your posts to your own space like Blogger does, but it doesn’t have as many options as Blogger. Greymatter is also interesting, since it installs as a Perl script on your own server space and generates flat HTML files. But again, it doesn’t seem to offer any advantages to Blogger and has the added complexity of installation. I was psyched for Blogger Pro, but now I doubt that will come to pass.
Anyone have any suggestions other than the ones I’ve mentioned? Or if you have some personal experience with the above tools and think I’m off base, let me know.