WordPress
Born out of a desire for an elegant, well architectured personal publishing
system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. Open source, as in
yes it is free. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. Go Blog, weblog, rant,
rave, write, or journal via Wordpress (self-hosted, downloadable application,
source code).
Wordpress.com
Get a blog fast and easy. Wordpress.com is the hosted version of big brother
Wordpress application found at
Wordpress.org.
It is an easy way for folks to start blogging, and it is free. Simply go to
Wordpress.com, enter a little basic information and you will have a blog in a
matter of seconds.
Movable Type
A powerful, customizable publishing system. It is a Perl and MySQL application
which installs on web servers to enable weblog, journal, content management.
The fully supported version of MT is no longer free, but you can download an
unsupported version for free. You're limited to 1 author and 3 weblogs.
20six Weblogs
The UK's largest weblogging community. 20six is free and lets you easily set
up your own Weblog with powerful features.
Xanga
A community of online diaries and journals. You can easily start your own
free journal, share thoughts with your friends and meet new friends, too.
GreyMatter
The original opensource weblogging and journal software. With fully-integrated
comments, searching, file uploading and image handling, completely customisable
output, you are in full control (OpenSource, Perl, Free).
Requirements: An FTP client such as CuteFTP, a web account which offers full
support for Perl 5 software, modest comfort level with HTML code (to customise
the templates), an imagination to make it all happen.
NanoBlogger
A small open source weblog engine written in Bash for the command line. It uses common
UNIX tools such as cat, grep, and sed to create static HTML content.
Plugged Out Blog
PluggedOut Blog is an open source script you can run on your web server to give
you an online multi-user journal or diary.
Folderblog
This free PHP script automatically displays the images placed in a given
directory, no database needed. It can be used as a blog or gallery, and
anything in between.
TextPattern
A flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of
websites, blogs, weblogs.
Blogger.com
Push Button Publishing for the People. Blogger offers you instant communication
power by letting you post your thoughts to the web whenever the urge strikes.
Create your own Blog now, easy, fast, and free.
My Trip Journal
Personal Travel journal. You can create your own travel website, plot your
journey on maps, store & display your photos, stories and experiences. Setup
your travel website for free.
bBlog
A blogging system written in PHP and released under the GPL. The templating
system used for bBlog is called Smarty, which means you don't need to know PHP
to edit the templates.
FireDrop
FireDrop2 is a free cross-platform blogging toolwritten in Python. It
keeps your blog source files on your computer, making it a clientside tool.
Dependencies: Python, v2.3 or later, wxPython (cross-platform GUI toolkit),
v2.6.1.0 or later, Wax (user-friendly layer on top of wxPython), PyEnchant
(for spellchecker plugin).
Scoop
A collaborative media application. It falls somewhere between a content
management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog.
MindSay
Blogging has never been easier. It even lets you update via Instant Messenger.
A fun, fast, free way to express yourself.
Blosxom
The zen of blogging. A lightweight yet feature-packed weblog application
designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and interoperability
in mind. Perl Application, Open Source, free.
Bravenet Online Web Journal
Join Bravenet and add the service to your own site, it's free! This free community offers several free
online web tools. View the demo .. and blog it.
mLogs
Mobile blogging you can create customizable weblogs. Building mLogs site is
easy, but the real fun is sending pictures and text from your cellphone to
your mLog in real-time. You don't have to know how to spell HTML to use it.
LiveJournal
A simple to use, but extremely powerful and customizable personal publishing
("blogging") tool, built on open source software.