OK, so I am new to blogging and has limited knowledge restricted to blogger. Now I want to have a blog hosted on my site. My cpanel is providing drupal,wordpress and many other blogs packages so it's really to install any of them. What I want to know is which of them will be better in terms of pinging and tagging. I have heard that wordpress automatically pings to pingomatic when you write a new post ? is it true ? what about tagging and tag clouds ? I don't know much about them. How can I introduce them in my blog? Thanks
If your aim is solely to blog, then Wordpress is the platform to go for. It does ping automatically as you've said, and you can add to the list of servers that it pings. It does categories which is a form of tagging in the eyes of Technorati. You can add more tags to individual posts by using a plugin such as "Ultimate Tagging Warrior". And tag clouds are also achievable through plugins. Go have a read through the Wordpress site: http://wordpress.org And their plugins page: http://wordpress.org/extend