The Ideal Blogging Platform

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16. Joomla is a full-blown CMS...

"Content Management System" and not appropriate for most bloggers/

For your freebie hosted options it still comes down to WordPress or Blogger.

Blogger has the obvious advantage of being tied into the Google multi-verse. and being extremely user-friendly. OTOH, they are...well...Google.

WordPress has a bit steeper learning curve, that means it also has more options.

For mom: Blogger.com (or BlogSpot, same thing)It's slick and user friendly and connects to a whole ecosystem of cool shit

For me: WordPress.com. It has more options and flexibility, but is still free and easy.

For my wicked smart niece who is going to set the world on fire: WordPress.org.

You can do damn near anything with this that you can imagine. If you are serious about your message, you 100% need your own domain name and hosting service, and that's going to cost real money.

As mentioned, Go Daddy for hosting, and WordPress.org for software.

There are also approximately half a bazillion tutorials available for each