Setting up a blog
A few weeks ago, I made a post about What is a blog?. This post is a follow up on that post.
There are a lot of good blogging tools to use. I am only going to briefly go over the tools that I’ve used.
- Xanga.com:
Xanga was one of the first weblog sites. I think they did a great job starting out; however, they have become a bit stagnant at making themselves better. Nonetheless, if you are looking for an easy site to get updates out to many non-technical people, this is the easiest as other xanga users may easily subscribe to your blog. - Blogger.com:
I started using blogger and liked it. It’s an easy to use interface and you can setup multiple blogs with great ease under your blogger account. Blogger does support publishing to other FTP servers if you know what you’re doing. - WordPress.com:
I use wordpress on my server. They have tons of plugins that you can apply to your blog. If you get an account and use their hosting, it doesn’t appear you have access to alot of their plugins. - MySpace.com:
The only reason I list this one is because I don’t like it. Myspace is very clunky and has a lot of junk everywhere. As far as social networking, it has done what xanga could’ve done a long time ago, become more of a community. If you want to use myspace, please don’t fill out the profiles with all your information. AND read this article
If you have alot of friends who use Xanga and you wish to get updates to them quickly, use xanga. If you want an easy to use blog that doesn’t take alot of time, use Blogger. If you want to go a bit more technical and have alot more control over your blog, go with WordPress.com. If you want to be another teenie bopper who is asking to be date raped, go with MySpace.com, fill out and post every profile, personality test and survey you can find.
