Comments on: Blogger: The Rodney Dangerfield of Blogging

By: Gwynne

Gwynne — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:50:20 +0000

I use blogger because I don't feel like hosting my own and the WordPress.com hosted option stinks. I've been using blogger for 4 years, and looked long(ingly) at WP for my current blog. I'm sure I'll hear about how easy it is to configure my blog on WP, what I am missing, etc. but frankly it is not what I want to do. Lazy, absolutely! But I don't feel like being an admin for a system.

By: Jeremy Campbell

Jeremy Campbell — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:46:08 +0000

I have used Blogger for a long time but now also use WordPress for 3 blogs and as I get more used to WP I'm finding it harder to get excited about using Blogger as a blogging platform.

The above graph is very interesting, it looks like the gap between WP and Blogger will always be the same.

Imagine if Blogger actually innovated their offering.

By: Colby Russell

Colby Russell — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:02:05 +0000

The Internet didn't become the Web. The "WTF?" you elicited was not an issue with your timeline, it was with the notion that the Internet has–or could ever–become the Web. That's akin to asserting that Earth became the United States after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

It's fine if the remainder of your comment is what you believe; I'd say many people would agree. But the idea that the Web and the Internet are two terms denoting something at two different states on a timeline or to be used interchangeably is wrong.

By: markevans

markevans — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:44:04 +0000

Colby,

To throw the ball in your court, when do you think the Internet turned into the Web? I mean, the Internet in early-1995 was still used by only a small group of people relatively speaking. To me, the Netscape IPO was the first sign of the Internet entering the mainstream.

Mark

By: Colby Russell

Colby Russell — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:31:40 +0000

. . . it has been 14 years since Netscape’s IPO, which symbolically marked the official transformation of the Internet into the Web.

WTF? No.

By: John E. Bredehoft

John E. Bredehoft — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:21:17 +0000

When I started my first blog in October 2003, I chose to use Blogger, and (with the exception of some special-purpose blogs like my last.fm journal) have pretty much used Blogger ever since. My reason for sticking with Blogger is, frankly, inertia – I don't really want to learn a new blogging platform, and Blogger does everything that I need it to do. If I were to ratchet up my blogs to a more professional level, would I continue to use Blogger? Possibly – Louis Gray proves that it can be done.

By: Michael Koenig

Michael Koenig — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:11:17 +0000

Testing, please ignore.
Thanks – Michael, IntenseDebate

By: photomatt

photomatt — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:14:42 +0000

We'll catch up to Blogger one of these days.

By: Apphacker

Apphacker — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:47:18 +0000

Blogger is terrible. It doesn't deserve any respect. The comment system is awful, there is no community, and tools available aren't that great either.

By: Michael Janke

Michael Janke — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:28:21 +0000

I'm assuming that people who bother to follow my blog are doing it because or my writing, not because of the platform that I chose. If that's true, then a platform change will not make much of a difference, so why bother. I doubt that staring all day at a WordPress editor widget will inspire me any more than staring all day at a Blogger editor widget.

I don't regret using Blogger & don't have a reason to switch, but I do regret not establishing my own domain right away. That seems like a bigger issue than the platform.