Blog Platforms
ProBlogger has a good article on Blog Hosting, Domains and Blogging Platforms – What We Wish We Knew
While there is some real wisdom in getting a taste for blogging using some of the free platforms my advice to anyone who suspects that they might end up blogging on a serious level it is worth securing a good domain name and getting set up on a platform that you think you’ll stick with for the long term.
I have used Blogger, the free hosting, since May 2004 and find it satisfying. I have tried WordPress, Opera Community, Vox, Blog-City, and some others, but prefer Blogger.
What we need to do now, though, is get into multimedia and microblogging.
Tiny journaling/archiving as provided by Pownce, Twitter, Jaiku, force bloggers to be brief, to the point, for mobile viewing. Pownce even lets you attach mp3 players and download links to a message, and other files, like jpegs.
Twittering your blog posts can drive traffic to them and you can also partake in the fast, furious world of Beta Invite Sharing.
Many insights, links, and files are being abundantly shared in such communities, to the point that I spend more time in them, and very little time in conventional blogs. Most of us cannot bother much with email anymore, like in Japan.
We are also contributing to the new Database-driven Semantic MetaWeb, buiding profiles, portfolios, and personal portals in every socnet site we can get our hands on.
Comment by vaspers the grate aka steven e. streight — July 10, 2007 @ 4:53 pm