WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it. - Read more

WordPress.com is brought to you by some of the same folks who work on the open source blogging software available at WordPress.org. However, as easy-to-use as we could make the open source package, there was still a barrier in that it requires a hosting account, a database, FTP, and a whole alphabet soup of acronyms. So we created WordPress.com, a hosted version of the open source package where you can start a blog in seconds without any technical knowledge. - Read more