Choosing your blogging software is hard.  After asking around I settled upon Serendipity.  However, our network administrator told me to check out WordPress.  I was sold.  It’s simple.  It works.  It’s free.  Job done.

 

The one-pager from tamba has everything a newbie needs to get up and running with WordPress.  The most important thing from the one-pager is the test site for trying out pingbacks and trackbacks when you’re setting up your blog.   It work seamlessly.  Be careful though!  I lost a day reading up on how the whole blogsphere works.  More specifically how blogger posts propogate around the web (and web2.0) to consumers.  But I’ll save that for another post…

 

Off to read up on some php stuff which you need to know if you’re into WordPress…