You would think that the leading blog software would be click and publish. But, it's not. Some of the basic features need to be added in by the users.
With blogger, the google-owned software for making blogs, you don't get trackbacks or subscriptions or any statistics. To get a subscription capability, you need to separately sign up for and install Feedburner. Feedburner also supplies visitor and subscription stats. If you want trackbacks, you can add halo but that seems to invite comment spam. BTW - Google bought Feedburner and I assume is trying to integrate it.
With WordPess, you also need to add Feedburner for subscriptions and stats. And halo for trackbacks.
Of course, with some templates and other modifications, Feedburner is incompatible.
And while Feedburner talks alot about chicklets and convenient RSS feeds, I'm having trouble finding out about the basic ability to subscribe to blog updates by email. I know it's a little simple but still, that's how most of us operate. I don't know what an RSS reader is and, just like news and other readers, I don't really have the time or energy to figure them out.
I'm about to try Typepad which I'm hoping, has some of these features integrated. Stay tuned.
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