Well, there are definitely pros and cons for both of these. I do like that WordPress has category/tag clouds – they take up a lot less space than a vertical list. And WordPress has built in traffic tracking. That’s nice. I had forgotten that I had already created a personal site on WordPress last year – check it out at http://www.trailmixup.wordpress.com – and WordPress makes it really easy to update whichever one I want. When I click “New post”, there’s a drop-down menu asking which one I want to update. So that’s nice. Both categories and tags, that’s nice. WordPress also gives me static Pages, which is awesome.
Biggest problems that I can see – since I can no longer easily access it through my Google Accounts, it’s slightly more of a PITA to get at my blog. I can’t easily add my bloglist. Blogger had a widget where it would access my Google reader and keep a constantly updated blog list, sorted by categories, of the most recently updated blogs. That was nice. I can’t find anything like that on WordPress, so it’s going to take a little bit before I can get my links back up. I also can’t move my widgets around, which I find rather frustrating. They appear one right after the other, and are not very customizable at all.
WordPress gives me the option of downloading software and then uploading my blog to a server. Uhhh … no thanks. That’s a little more work than I want to get into.
So I spent all of last night playing around with WordPress and Blogger. And Twitter. Sigh … those who say World of Warcraft is addictive have never tried Twitter. There’s something about this constant stream of conversation which makes me feel all interconnected and happy. Yes, dear friends, Twitter is happiness.
Twitter is also a total black hole of time-suckingness. Oh, my.
November 17, 2008 at 8:54 pm
I can appreciate your frustration and admiration for all three outlets as I also maintain wordpress, blogger & twitter accounts. All have their pros…some just more than others. At the end of day, twitter is a micro-blogging site and has such a variety of ways to dictate your thoughts. The winner is twitter for it’s diversity and flexibility.
November 18, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I have no idea how Twitter works or what it is–just that everyoen who uses it seems to think it’s fabulous but dangerously addictive. I’m doing my best to stay away but it’s calling me…!
November 18, 2008 at 10:27 pm
It is fabulous, and it is dangerously addictive. There is this steady stream of worldwide conversation going on, and you can dip in and “taste” as much or as little as you want. However, it’s very tempting to immerse yourself in the stream of conversation … and that’s when you suddenly realize supper has burned on the stove and the baby’s diaper is sagging around his ankles. (That’s a hypothetical situation, of course … I’d *never* let that happen. *looks innocent*)