Playing around with blogger.com
Hrm.
I've been having a bit of a play around with this blogging engine, and I'm not too convinced. Oddly, the thing that bothers me the most is the lack of any way to really control who reads what.
The thing I've always liked about livejournal is the 'friends only' option. I like being able to write something and decide whether I want to make it public (otherwise known as 'I'm ok with anyone reading this, be it my Dad, or my psycho ex'), friends only (otherwise known as 'I've got a list of people with livejournal log ins who I trust to see this') or even customized friends groups. It seems to take a lot of the passive aggressive out of journalling, which blogspot doesn't do so well.
At least this has the disable anonymous commenting etc type settings, which are fairly important.
Not entirely sure why I'm posting this here. Mostly because it seems a little bit more appropriate than putting it all up on livejournal where no one cares!
posted by Sally @ 7:05 AM
1 Comments:
Assuming you have comment notification on, and not wanting to spam your LJ with off topic stuff, perhaps introduce Leah to the wonder that is LJ?
I'm of the opinion that LJ is great for personal stuff, and blogger good for more open stuff.
Bloggers a lot easier to customise the appearance of though; I can manage php scripts (just), but S2 on LJ confuses me utterly. Hence I stick to their templates. Ah well.
One advantage that blogger definately has is distinction between person and blog; Ihave multiple blogs on different subjects, and some have shared contributors. Could use communities, but they don't have the same level of customisation.
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