How do you start a blog/wiki?

[Stewart C. Russell]

Rob Sutherland wrote:
> 
> Of course, I forgot the main difference - blogs are used more for publishing,
> as one or a small group putting out most of the content, where wikis are used for 
> collaboration and/or collecting and storing information from a larger group.

While that's mostly true, a good blog should allow user comments, which
sometimes turn into discussion. With wikis, anyone can create and edit
content -- like the helpful visitor from polymtl.ca who hosed the
Toronto Perl Mongers' wiki last year.

Setting up a blog is easy. I use WordPress <http://wordpress.org>;
written in PHP, talks to a MySQL backend (though I think it may be able
to do pg and sqlite now). While I've had the install time for a wiki
under two minutes, a blog generally requires a little more setup, but is
very easy to maintain.

cheers,
 Stewart
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