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Blog software, also known as weblog software, blogging software, or blogware, is software designed to simplify creating and maintaining weblogs. As specialized content management systems, weblog applications support the authoring, editing, and publishing of blog posts and comments, with special functions for image management, web syndication, and post and comment moderation.
Software used for top 20 blogs
The top blogs as ranked by Technorati use a mixture between third party software such as WordPress and that developed and maintained mostly by internal engineers, such as the system used by Gizmodo.
Rank | Blog | Software |
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1 | The Huffington Post | Movable Type |
2 | Gizmodo | Gawker bespoke software[1] |
3 | TechCrunch | WordPress |
4 | TMZ.com | WordPress |
5 | Engadget | Blogsmith |
6 | Mashable | WordPress |
7 | The Corner | Drupal (same CMS as National Review) |
8 | Boing Boing | WordPress |
9 | Hot Air | WordPress |
10 | Gawker | Gawker bespoke software[2] |
11 | Think Progress | WordPress |
12 | The Daily Dish | TypePad |
13 | The Daily Beast | ? |
14 | Newsbusters | Drupal |
15 | CNN Political Ticker | WordPress |
16 | Ezra Klein at Washington Post | ? |
17 | Breitbart.tv | WordPress |
18 | Big Government | WordPress |
19 | ReadWriteWeb | Movable Type |
20 | Matthew Yglesias | WordPress |
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