The number of blogging packages now available has become staggering. This is the best meta-comparision of all the different approaches I’ve seen yet. That page also links to this blogware feature list (yes, I’ve already sent the author a list of mistakes on the LJ feature set). LJ fits into a category the author calls “hosted community” and his analysis of the pros and cons of that model are pretty accurate, although I don’t understand the AOL comparison he’s making.