Addendat is a free blogging program.

Features:

• It supports web-based entry editing and deletion.


• It uses challenge/response verification to try to retard comment spam. Unlike those stupid images, Addendát's method works on Lynx. 


• It has a very flexible and generalized (in my opinion) configuration language; you can add support for arbitrary form fields, archiving, and conditional display (chunks of data that only show up if a given field was filled in) in the template language without touching a line of perl.


• It has a verbose and perhaps even useful manual to explain it.


• It has a friendly installer for those of you with shell access to your servers.


• It does not require you to install or create a database.


• It has a command-line tool for people (like the author) who are crazy enough to prefer to write their blog entries in vim (or other editors.).


• The only perl modules it requires are BSD::Resource, Tie::Hash, CGI, Fcntl, and File::Temp.


• It can propagate entries to remote CGIs and/or LiveJournal.


• It's open source, so you can peer suspiciously at it to see if I've put trojans in it.


• It has a hub (see sidebar. Er, sidebox.) on which recently updated blogs can be posted.


• Your blog is kept in a bunch of static HTML pages, so you don't have to wait for the program to start every time you're looking at an entry.


• It runs on your server. You don't have to worry about a problem with my site breaking anything but the hub; you don't have to give me your passwords; you don't have to turn on Javascript or cookies in your web browser.