Purpose

The purpose of this blog at DaveUrban.com is to explore different offerings in blog platform technology.  Blog platform technology can be defined as software or services that provide the capability to blog and the specific features of such software or services.

Method

The best way to fully explore a blog platform, or any technology for that matter, is to actually use it in a manner that is, or as close as possible to, a real world application of the technology.  To that end, the best way way to learn about blog platform technology is use it for blogging.  And for a blog to be effective, it should have information about a particular topic.  So this blog will have information about blog platform technology.  The description of the experience of using various blog software or services will be the material for the DaveUrban.com blog.

Selected Technology

The primary blog platform technology to be explored will be BlogEngine.NET, WordPress, and Blogger.com.  One or more blogs will be created and used for different subject matter and the experience of using these technologies will be related here.

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