• Reported by francois

(Blogging being just one potential use of tools which are all basically CMS and/or community tools; it may be a subject for debate how these differ from more generalised CMSs.)

web-graphics.com was instrumental in getting me interested in Moveable Type, which I'm very happy about. The only blogging software I knew of before MT was Blogger, Userland and Greymatter. I don't know whether it reflects a speed-gathering trend, or whether I'm just becoming more attuned to the "Powered by..." small print at the bottom of sites, but I'm noticing new players with increasing regularity!

Two new ones (to me):
Brand Ben Brown
"Ben Brown is a one man Web application powerhouse. He brings his expertise building community software, content management, XML data storage and manipulation, and high-end Web applications to your needs.
[...]
Brand Ben Brown provides free software to the personal homepage community. The basic versions of all the off-the-shelf products are available for free to people who run non-commercial, non-profit, personal Web sites."
I saw this at designforcommunity.com

Drupal ("Drop" in Dutch -- phonetically at least.)
"Drupal is a content management/discussion engine suitable to setup or build a content driven or community driven website. We aim towards easy installation, excessive configuration and fine-grained maintenance capabilities. Due to its modular desig n Drupal is flexible and easy to adapt or extend. Drupal is written using PHP and MySQL. The source code is available under terms of GNU General Public License (GPL). "
I saw this at www.iaslash.org/ia
"ia/ news for information architects"