For those with Blogs

I'm new to blogging but I've used Blogsot for just over a month. It is very easy to update once you get your initial "template" formatted. You'll need a little knowledge of HTML to customize....

I use LiveJournal.  It is free and easy to use. I like it because it links to my friends who also have a LiveJournal, it is free and I think you get a lot with the free account.  You can also blog pictures if you have a picture account with Flickr.com which is cool.  I like the mood icons.  I haven't really found anything I dislike about it yet. 

I have been running my narciblog Once Again With Feeling for a few years now. It started as I was turning 40 then became an account of my experiences in the classroom, then my wife's cancer treatments, the unmitigated hell that is disney etcetera. It is a place where I blow off steam and my friends/family can keep in touch with what is happening in my life etcetera.


Edited by Wookiee 2005-07-11 8:35 AM

Another vote for LiveJournal. Been using it on and off for about 6 months or so. Very easy to use format.

It just is a way to detail what I am doing for friends and family and people who think they are too: Old, fat, tired, to do this. If I can do it anyone can! We own our own domain (husband is a nerd) and it is there. It started as a way to chronicle the pregnancies and preemies and became my training blog because I love my kids but need to talk about other things too. I love to write and it is a way to write.

Edited by nliedel 2005-07-11 9:11 AM

I use movable type.  I installed it on my server.  It is very robust, and there's a large user community out there.

They also have the subscription service typepad, but I haven't used that.

Another LiveJournal vote here. Had it for about 3 years now, although I haven't been updating as much lately, BT has been taking most of my online time.

myspace.com or friendster.com, both are good, I like myspace better.

I used to use Moveable Type until it went commercial - I didn't like that I couldn't edit the comments so I could get rid of the advertisements for various enlargement/casino/blue pill/adult sites etcetera.

Now I use WordPress - http://www.wordpress.orgthe program is free, easy to install and configure and you can edit the comments. I only delete the ones that are advertisements not the ones that are nasty.

Hmm... my daughter has a page up on myspace and it looked like fun, didn't realize you could blog there though, I'll check it out.

Plain and simple blogger. It's free and it posts - just about all I need. I do most of the HTML the "old fashioned way" anyways, so maybe the other ones are better for this.

Does that make you Queen Nancy? 

Queen Nancy! Too funny.. well technically I guess it does. But since when does the queen change the kind of diapers I faced today? What on earth did Grandma feed them this weekend anyway?