Sites You Can Refer To For General Help

Free-Conversant

http://www.free-conversant.com/

Online discussion group tool that provides server space. Follow the "support" link for information on their weblog features.

LUSENET

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/index.tcl

A free threaded-discussion hosting service used by several weblogs for their discussion forums.

Blogger

http://new.blogger.com/home.pyra

Online weblog creation tool that requires you to have a server somewhere that can accept updates via ftp.

BOP

http://sourceforge.net/projects/bop/

BOP Stands for "Blog Oriented Publishing", an open source database-backed system written in perl. Still in early alpha and looking for contributors.

pMachine

http://www.pmachine.com/

PHP/MySQL system with many features beyond weblog maintenance, including mailing lists and dynamic content management.

WikiWeblogPM

http://www.ourpla.net/john/wikiweblogpim.html     

A "page of links on research about things relevant to software that would combine the best features of existing wiki, weblog and PIM software."

Blog Rolling Competitions

http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/01/jepson/

Comparative review of Slash, Squishdot, and Thatware.

Weblog

http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/17/index.html

Despite the name, this is software for maintaining RSS channels rather than conventional weblogs, though it does offer HTML output features as well.