Blogger has a lot of problems, but for a long time it’s been one of the easiest and most popular service to use for people starting up a weblog for the first time. Now it has some healthy competition from WordPress.com, which came out of beta today.
WordPress.com offers users a free weblog on its domain. It doesn’t offer all of the flexibility that using WordPress on one’s own server provides, but it looks to be a good choice for people who don’t want to deal with hosting fees and setup. Advantages over Blogger appear to be a better composition page and better comment spam protection, among other things. Here’s a review.
[Via Weblog Tools Collection.]
Jacob Grier is a freelance writer, bartender, cocktail consultant, and magician in Portland, Oregon. He writes, eats, and drinks a lot. His articles have appeared in the print or online editions of The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Reason, The Oregonian, and other publications.
Thanks Jacob! This is what I have been waiting for.
heh wordpress.com has finally been released for public, whoa!
And it’s not oftenly to be seen that a wordpress blog uses HTML for PHP page. You for the example
Thanks for pointing that out. It was done intentionally to keep the URLs for old entries the same when I switched from MT to WP. I should look into changing that for new entries.
I can’t imagine switching from Blogger at this point because I don’t want to lose my old content. I LIKE my content.
There’s probably a way to import them (I know there is for the hosted version of WP).
i got one!
thanks