Drupal and reBlog: A new wave of blogging

Which blogging platform are you using?

The three most popular platforms are Blogger, WordPress and Movable Type.

This won't last forever however. We can probably expect a blogging platform shake-out over the next couple of years. There are some new platforms appearing that have several advantages over today's leading blogging tools.

If you are considering making a living from blogging in the foreseeable future, or just making your blogging more enjoyable, you might want to check out these new players.

Drupal is one. This blogging platform is provided free of charge and was developed by thousands of programmers via open source teamwork.

The Drupal platform can provide you with much more than the typical blogging platform. If you are looking for forums and discussion sites, this software backdrop is perfectly suited. Ditto for resource directories, e-commerce applications, picture galleries and newsletters.

reBlog is another new blog platform that is starting to make waves. This free software enables you to easily republish content from RSS feeds. Bloggers can choose content from the many RSS feeds they subscribe to and republish it at the hit of a button. Note that if you use reBlog for this purpose, you can't reap benefits from advertising as the content is not of your making. But reBlog seems to be the perfect feedreader, Check it out. Probably the best ranked and most widely read reBlog blog out there today is the TP Wire Service by Tom Peters.

The only blog that I know of that uses a combination of these two free blogging platforms is a new site; Cosmetic Makeovers. If anyone knows of other examples, please let me know.