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What is your favourite service for bloggers?

I have tried few free blog services but nothing seemed to be just right. (off-course at one point I thought I should write my own blog engine :)

I am looking for something that:

  • Can gracefully handle the source code in blog post (easy to post source code)
  • Files other than images and videos can also be uploaded
  • [Desirable] Can be visually customised
  • [Desirable] Works smoothly with Windows Live Writer

What service would you recommend for this?

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This isn't really programming related. – Noufal Ibrahim Jan 12 '10 at 17:56
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Variations on this theme have been asked and closed more times than I can count. – dmckee Jan 12 '10 at 18:00
@dmckee - I wrote a script that counted them. The answer is 42. The script's name is dthought.sh. – Buggabill Jan 12 '10 at 18:03
dupe of superuser.com/questions/73038/… which is a dupe of superuser.com/questions/8702/… – fretje Jan 12 '10 at 18:23
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i always liked the look and formatting of Pinal Dave's but i'm not sure which blooging engine it uses. It does seem to support much of what you need, at least at first glance.

Perhaps a look at the source will reveal the engine?

Pinal Dave seems to just be sing Wordpress. Have you given that one a look?

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That blog is on WordPress.com. – ceejayoz Jan 12 '10 at 18:07
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You might be best of with Wordpress, either the hosted or the self-hosted version, simply for the vast number of plug-ins that allow easy customizing of almost every aspect, and the variety of good templates available.

If you like to have things under your control, and customize them a lot, download it and install it on your own webspace.

From what I've seen so far, Wordpress's code quality is not exactly great, but who cares. It's a time-tested product, and it runs everyhwere.

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This will depend on what platform you use.

For example, I cringe every time I see .Net blog hosted by a WordPress on linux installation. Not that there's anything wrong with WordPress, but .Net has a number of nice options: BlogEngine, SubText, dasBlog, etc, and they all have a plug-in to do automatic syntax highlighting. Of course, most of those also want you to host it yourself, but it's not that hard. You could even use a dedicated desktop off your home broadband if (like me) you're that cheap.

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Have you tried Tumblr? The jQTouch blog uses that and it seems to work quite well.

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