Blogging now has never been easier and mobile. With Facebook you are dependent on other people keeping your personal data away from bad people. There is even an assertion that privacy has never been Facebook's responsibility. If you think you can't live in the digital world without Facebook then I offer you blogs.
Blogs give you complete control over your website. Delete abusive comments, you can. Block comments you can. Keep the website private, check. You can go the other way and automatically announce new posts in Twitter and ironically, Facebook.
You can use Bloggers or you can use Wordpress. I have both. Blogger is older and Wordpress is open source. You can create two blogs. One is public and the other private. Both Bloggers and Wordpress have free accounts and premium services.
You can use your mobile phone to send posts. I love sending photos taken by the cell camera as posts with the subject appearing as title in the blog post. It's very spontaneous.
This is the production side of it, what about the end user side of this?
Isn't is a pain to open a browser for each of your friends' blog when all you will read is a one-line update to your friends' status?
Use Google Reader or use a desktop feed reader application like me. A feed reader polls each feed from your friends blogs and checks for updates automatically when the application is open.
One more thing, blogs do not limit your posts to a set number of words or characters. You want to do a Stephen King go ahead. Go write your novel now.
Blogs give you complete control over your website. Delete abusive comments, you can. Block comments you can. Keep the website private, check. You can go the other way and automatically announce new posts in Twitter and ironically, Facebook.
You can use Bloggers or you can use Wordpress. I have both. Blogger is older and Wordpress is open source. You can create two blogs. One is public and the other private. Both Bloggers and Wordpress have free accounts and premium services.
You can use your mobile phone to send posts. I love sending photos taken by the cell camera as posts with the subject appearing as title in the blog post. It's very spontaneous.
This is the production side of it, what about the end user side of this?
Isn't is a pain to open a browser for each of your friends' blog when all you will read is a one-line update to your friends' status?
Use Google Reader or use a desktop feed reader application like me. A feed reader polls each feed from your friends blogs and checks for updates automatically when the application is open.
One more thing, blogs do not limit your posts to a set number of words or characters. You want to do a Stephen King go ahead. Go write your novel now.
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