Comments on: Starting a Blog: Selecting the Right Blog Platform

By: Collective Thoughts » Blog Archive » 7 Ways to Own Social Media Before it Owns You

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:16:11 +0000

[...] have been much shorter lately on social media. Much less than when I would primarily write about blogging tips and starting a [...]

By: Wordpress New Beta Version

Wordpress New Beta Version — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:39:08 +0000

[...] You don’t have to worry about any of this if your blog is WordPress hosted – only if you have a WordPress blog that you host elsewhere. For more information on what that means, read my previous post on different blog platform. [...]

By: brian

brian — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:24:10 +0000

@Pete: same here, and thanks for the kind words! Thank you for commenting on several posts here as well!

By: Pete White

Pete White — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:33:22 +0000

I’ve been really pleased with WordPress – great post!

By: Starting a blog: How do you Measure Success?

Starting a blog: How do you Measure Success? — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:38:12 +0000

[...] many hits you have. This number can come from the stats that are part of the blogging platform you are using, or a third party such as [...]

By: brian

brian — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:09:03 +0000

@raj: thanks for coming over to my blog! I’m glad that you found my advice useful, hope you continue to read my blog for helpful tips.

By: raj

raj — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:50:14 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for answering my question on yahoo answers. Your answer led mo this post. Infact u would be glad to know that i moved to wordpress.org for another hosted blog. Thanks for your suggestion..

By: brian

brian — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:03:23 +0000

@John: thanks for the words of praise! If you go with self-hosted (aka Wordpress.org), you are able to use Google Adsense on your blog.

By: John Kaiser

John Kaiser — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:06:52 +0000

Excellent analysis. I love WordPress, I just wish they would allow me to ad Google Adsense to my blog. My wife would do back flips if I could make money blogging. lol.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:44:43 +0000

I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding o.us poetry, but it’s just my opinion, which could be wrong

By: Starting a Blog: Fit Your Personality

Starting a Blog: Fit Your Personality — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:19:53 +0000

[...] to my prior post on selecting the right blog platform, today I’m blogging about finding a blog platform that best fits your ability and [...]

By: brian

brian — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:40:47 +0000

@Carol: welcome back! Thanks for chipping in on reviewing Yahoo 360, and glad to hear that you’re feeling more comfortable at LiveJournal.

Yes, promoting your blog is coming…all in due time – stay tuned!

By: Carol

Carol — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:41:16 +0000

Another great post. Learned a lot. Thanks.

Admittdly, I am newer at this than most of your commenters, but I have tried yahoo 360 and was apalled at the lack of continuity.

Their blogs offer many wonderful options, but they do not always work all the time. (Visitors counter for one. Editing for two. Friends List for three strikes, you’re out!) It’s confusing and quite frankly, annoying. Then there is the constant and consistant prompt to sign in – even after you have asked to be remembered… I dumped them fast and moved to LiveJournal. For the time being, I am pretty comfortable over there.

I am not familiar with Live Space.

Can’t wait to read what you have to say about these.

Also enthusiatically looking forward to the posts on promoting your blog!

Thanks again!
Carol

By: brian

brian — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:32:52 +0000

@jdr: I guess I could review more, and may add these 2 in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!

By: jdr

jdr — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:24:11 +0000

I guess yahoo’s 360 and msn’s live spaces don’t make the cut?

By: brian

brian — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:09:40 +0000

@drmike: thanks for the comment.

In regard to your points:

“Javascript on wp.com” – yes it is partially a security issue – users sometimes don’t realize how hairy JavaScript can get. Part of it I had suspected was that WP didn’t want users to monetize their blogs – might be against their TOS.

“some issues on migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org,” – it’s been a bit of a pain moving posts, categories, and comments from .com to .org. I’ve used the export tool in .com and used import on .org. It only brought in some of the posts. Yes, I could always bring it in using RSS, but I don’t want to lose the categories and comments.

@Jeremy: yes, agree with you on WordPress.com and WordPress.org points. Talking about the difference between the two is worthy of an entire post – hope to get to it soon!

By: Jeremy Osborne

Jeremy Osborne — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:50:20 +0000

Having used all of these blogs except for squarespace, I agree with your post amd rating. For WordPress.org (which I use) and WordPress.com I’d actually split the review. WordPress.org allows an additional pro for it’s ease of customization, satisfying for the inner geek in us all. It’s extremely well organized for an open source project, easy to tweak the code (even for me who has no formal PHP experience). It’s even easy to update (as long as you’re a bit careful) after you tweak the code.

By: drmike

drmike — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:53:00 +0000

Greets:

Javascript on wp.com – Just for reference, that’s a security issue. Yes, blogger allows it but, since they allow it, you have to deal with cookie stealing, splog forwarding and redirects and the like. And it’s rumored that the adsense is coming for wp.com. No one really know though since Matt is only talking to the media about it and non of the end users, not even the volunteers who deal with all of the support issues in their support forums.

As to “some issues on migrating from WordPress.com to WordPress.org,” would love to know what issues you had were. Kind of an empty and unclear statement there.

Regards,
-drmike

By: brian

brian — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:43:00 +0000

@HT: you’re right – I can re-examine that in a future post. Come back again soon!

By: HT

HT — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:40:33 +0000

One little critique is that you seemed to bundle together LiveJournal, TypePad, and MovableType just because SIxApart owns them all. TypePad uses MovableType so you can perhaps link them together but LiveJournal is a very different bird altogether and probably should be separated from the other two.

As for the other two, TypePad is a paid service, while MovableType is actually free to the common user and paid only for larger needs (aka more than one blog on same website).

MovableType is also quite similar in many ways to WordPress, although it is certainly its own entity. Probably a larger writeup on MovableType is in order to make this full list complete though.