I have been involved in the web for quite some time, but have never attempted a site of this nature, so im intrigued what people think is the best cms/tools to use for blog/news based site with automated content scraping from other sites/forums running addfiliate/google ads. be itneresting to hear what the opinion / suggestions are.
Wordpress can be customized to do pretty much anything you want. The advantages here are that it can automatically be updated and also that it's open source. I've previously ran some large sitse with Interspire Website Publisher, however Wordpress does exactly the same job without the headaches and a much easier to use plugin and template architecture.
Word Press is current with today's web standards and looks much cleaner and professional than some of its competitors. You can change the template over to one that is in the Word Press arsenal or design a template yourself and upload it to your site instead.Yes, Word Press is designed to be set up through your own web host, but if you do not have a web site, you can get a free account through Web Press and they will host it for you.
Wordpress for sure. There are a variety of plugins that can automate content creation, moreover wordpress is actually the easiest cms to tweak