The Best Blogging Tools For MAC

(From Macworld -- By Dori Smith)

According to one recent estimate, a new WEBLOG is created every second. Everyone from your geeky IT coworker to your UNCLE MARVIN has one already.

So why don't you?

If you've got something -- anything -- you want to share with the rest of the world, A BLOG is the place to do it. And it's never been easier to jump on the blogging bandwagon. The tools and services required are inexpensive (and often free) and as simple (or as powerful) as you want.

Right now, the blogging tools most popular with MAC users are TYPEPAD and MOVABLE TYPE, both from SIX APART; BLOGSPOT and BLOGGER, from BLOGGER (now part of GOOGLE); and WORDPRESS, an open-source tool.

These five tools range in power and complexity from simple-but-limited (TYPEPAD, BLOGGER, BLOGSPOT) to do-pretty-much-anything-but-may-require-coding (WORDPRESS). MOVABLE TYPE is somewhere between these two extremes.

Two of them -- TYPEPAD and BLOGSPOT -- also provide the hosting services you need in order to put your blog on the Web. The other three require that you arrange the hosting yourself (though that's not especially hard to do).

Here are the tools I'd recommend for different sorts of bloggers.

The Best Blogging Tools For Mac