Actually, I was signed into Google Reader and thought the gray bar across the top was WordPress, so here I am now on Blogger an hour later.... with another blog, and another other blog (JohnScout). Talk about a time sink! With so much clutter across the big wide web, the variety of options can be overwhelming.
- Basic tools--platforms, widgets, wedgies & wonderbar
- Presentation--style; does form follow function? go encyclopedic (everything and the kitchen sink) or zen simplicity.
- Purpose--and of course this last should be first. It's the "so what?" question. What is my purpose in undertaking this task? By what results will we judge success?? What time is lunch???
So OK. Let's play a bit. Try new things. Test the limits. I think maybe I'l make a quesadilla for lunch today instead of my usual Progresso.
-john
Today's WP v Blogger update: Cross-posted Broadband post. Composed it on WP. I prefer the WP dashboard for composition. It seems a bit larger window. Mostly it's the design that caught my attention today. Blogger is kinda clunky, like using MySpace. WP has cleaner lines, more like last.fm used to be before their redesign reduced composition windows to txt msg.
ReplyDeleteI have another project that could be more graphic intensive, maybe sound/video. Maybe tonight after the dishes (no rest for the weary).
Here's another comment to test the Comment as feature.
ReplyDeleteI overuse ShareThis to post stuff to FaceBook. will get around to looking at installing it here soon.
ReplyDeleteSo I tried posting as a Post (Rather than the Social Web tab) from a Blogger blog (http://www.briansolis.com/2009/01/intersection-of-facebook-myspace.html )
Blogger fails to post as a comment. Posts OK to WP, FB. Logged me onto MySpace, not sure it posted.
Today's report: Blogger's small editing window is annoying. It kept putting in extra line breaks in wysiwyg. However, it took embedded HTML non-standard video (from Turner Classic Movies). Score 1 for Blogger.
ReplyDeleteWordPress is much better for editing, tho I still feel better editing in Word and copying over. WP hung up on me a couple times trying to link to pic by url, and major #fail on non-standard video.
Now, I'm sure that a ProBlogger knows how to do these things. That ain't me. I just want to use the tool and learn as I go. I'm a guy--I don't read the directions until I absolutely have to.
Late for dinner. again.