What is the best blogging platform?

[Shiraj]

Can anyone tell me what is the best blogging platform and which is easy to use and understand. which are the most popular blogging platform. What is difference in hosted blog platform Non hosted blog platform?

[Rhesa]

When you start using blog there are many choice you can select. And the very first choice is to choose which site to use and the most popular blog plat form is:
Blogger
Typepad
Wordpress
The above are the links of each site so you will understand the difference and specialty of each site.

[Chopfyt]

There are many blogging plat form as mention above but first you have to determine whether you prefer hosted or non-hosted blog platform

Hosted blog platform: hosted blog platform is one that is housed on platform’s server. For example: if you have a blogger blog your blog is hosted on blog server, and if you have typepad blog your blog is hosted on typyepad server.

Non hosted blog platform: a non hosted site is the blog that is housed on your own server. And the third part pays to host your site, example: if you use wordpree.org as your blogging platform, they donot host your blog for you.

[Deverell]

There are thousands of blogging site its on you which one to select top three blogging site are mentioned above. check each blogging site and see which blogging site you you like more.

[FarhaS]

Hosted site is very easy to start a blog without spending a lot of money such as Blogger which is free and where as typepad gives you a tiered price depending on your needs. And hosted site is very user friendly and very easy to find link on certain task.
In non hosted site you have all control over your html and css. You can manage your search engine optimization by having control over your permalinks.

[Beatricef]

Blogger can appear less professional also there are platform limitations such as the way search engine finds you can be difficult, and typepad can have comment spam and archive can be less user friendly.

[Haleema]

Here is the list of top 10 blogging platform.
Wordpress
Blogger
Tumblr
Movable type
Expression engine
Squarespace
Typepad
Posterous spaces
Compendium blogware
drupal

[DamarisK]

Blogger and typepad hosted site offers you what you see is what you get editors. In many other platforms you can edit your blog and see how it looks but this two site also allows you to see your code. And word press and movable type allow you to do many things such as allow you to do managing advertisement and respond to comment.

[AliyaK]

Here are some details about some blog site.
Blogger: Google owns blogger and this platform is since blogging begin and still an excellent site.
Wordpress:
This site is free and it has enormous community which can be enjoyed, it’s an open source blogging platform. And wordpress.com is straight forward blog making tool this has more option than blogger.
Tumblr:
This one of the fastest growing blogging platform in 2011. It is excellent for ecommerce merchant, has love hate relationship and it seem with fashion industry.
Typepad:
Well typepad is very easy to setup and post, very functionally blogging platform and very good choice for beginner.
Live journal:
In this platform you can categories your post, tags, moods, music and many more. This includes friend list and is community centric blogging.

[KirtiPatel]

I recently start blogger it’s easy to use and it’s user friendly. You can easily make change to templates and you can also categories your post with labels. And the best part is that it is absolutely free.

[Elazar]

I am Using facebook from many years and find it very enjoyable and friendly. In facebook you can make friends and add them to your friend list, upload pictures, video play game, comment and add tags to any blog. Upload status and the best part is that you can send message and chat with online friends.