This is my hidden blog that I have not posted on since October 2006. Instead of having a separate book blog I have combined book reviews in my normal blog. I am resurrecting this blog for the purposes of a learning plan I am working on through work. We could establish another blog to do this but the thought of trying to remember more names and passwords and setting up a new blog was all a bit much so I am using this old thing as my learning and sharing space. My rules about no work on home blog are temporarily suspended.
Anyway, the title of the this blog denotes the task and because I am a wee bit lazy and tend to skitter across the top of things I have done some research to find out what other people with more time on their hands have said on this topic and i will chip in with my thoughts as appropriate.
First up http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.html
Check this out and see how unbusy this person is. However, I have comments being a person who blogs on both hosts and I have set up blogs on both as well.
My primary blog host is Blogspot and there are things I like and am used to. The template changes and fun you can have with that. Instructions are straight forward and it is friendly
Wordpress has a very cool looking template but it is limited. Uploading photos on Blogspot is very bloody annoying as they always post to the top of your entry and you have to move them about but you can't cut and paste! I hate that. I often have to reload my pics because I did one too many 'backspace's. That feels very clunky and oldfashioned to me. I would like to be much more creative with my posts but I don't have so much time to experiment and you need to weigh up the writing against the techy things.
I like Wordpress' visitor stat information. You can check many more details as part of the programme but on Blogspot you have to load up a widget. I did this and chose a funky little thing called Feedjit which I have installed on my page and you can see where people have come from which also allows me to see my regular readers. It amazes me who pops in. With this you can also see a wee map of the world and zoom in on visitors. I don't think it keeps historical info so it is pretty instant and not stat driven. I did add some 'best of' widgets but got a bit bored with them.
I think your host is really a personal choice thing and a lot has to do with who your host is linked up to and where you store your Internet photos etc. Judging by others examples and discussions I am a pretty simple blogger, being a writer not a techy. It is fun to experiment with things and I have changed the look of my blog a lot over the years. I really like it as it is now.
I need to stop going on, as I think I have flanneled enough probably proving that I am a very superficial blogger. Oh yes, I love spell check on Blogspot and assume Wordpress has that, wish Twitter did. It is embarrassing.
There is also the argument about who owns Blogspot (Google) and Wordpress ...not sure but it is 'independent'. I don't care. It is about writing and connecting with people and nothing I say on my blog is of much interest. Another thing that does annoy me about blogger is that when you change your template, you lose all the widgets and other bits and bobs you have done to personalise it. I might have considered changingto Wordpress earlier but now I have a three year history I would lose my readership, such that it is.
Work uses Wordpress so I get to play with that a bit and home is blogger so it is fine. Again, it is personal choice.
Over and out
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