What is the Best Free Hosted Blogging Service?
Some of my friends (Katie and Dana) use free blogging services, namely, LiveJournal and Blogger/Blogspot respectively. I personally went straight to Movable Type and then WordPress hosted on my own domain.
Of those two choices I’d tend to go with Blogger. It’s owned by Google now, so there’s plenty of growth potential. Probably the main reason would be that I actually dislike LiveJournal because: it’s slow, its themes are applied only to the front page (comment pages are the horrendous style of the rest of the site), it’s slow, you are forced into a long address (even blogspot gives you a subdomain), it’s slow, everyone and their brother has an account there so you’re forced into an obscure AIM screename-ish username, and did I mention it’s slow? Yeah. I don’t like LiveJournal… at all… in any way… shape… or form.
I’m curious though, what do y’all use and why?
well…as you pointed out to everyone I use LiveJournal, and thats because I’ve had my account for about 3 years now, and back then LJ was the new, cool thing…and I really don’t have any problems with it…and my journal is already there…basically…I don’t really have any specific reason to be using LJ and not something else…I guess I’m just comfortable there…
Blogger has it’s share of problems too though. Let’s hope that Google growth fixes them… and soon lately I’ve been quite frustrated by a few of them.