Yeah, she's winning...
Note: I'm testing the Firefox plugin ScribeFire (previously Perfomancing) to post to Blogger. This entry is solely to test out the plugin. The content below is a boring stream of thought account of myself looking for a new hosting account.
Update: I can tell already that I don't like using ScribeFire
I've been looking at new blogging software, lately, because my dot mac account will expire in October. I'm trying to figure out whether there are other and/or better alternatives to dot mac's lame features. The only reason I'd stay with dot mac is the ease of synchronizing data and its seemless integration with I already have. Laziness aside, dot mac is very limiting.
I've been looking for hosting packages that could support alternative services. So far, no luck in finding comparable packages that are easy to set up. I'm pretty proficient in the ways of the computer, but a lot of these tweaks require a Unix geek. I could move away from dot mac, but that would entail learning a foreign language.
If I do subscribe to a new host, I would like to add the blog to it. I could use Blogger to run the blog on my own host. The only alternative that I would be willing to try is WordPress. Open source, good. Free (as in both freedom and beer), also good. I've read a couple articles comparing WordPress and Blogger. Both have their respective strengths. I opened a WordPress.com blog just to play around with the WP interface. It's not the same as the WP package that would be installed on your own host, but pretty similar.
This reminds me of my gradual shift from Xanga to Blogger. I started on Xanga for the ease of use and the community. I opened a Blogger account to see what it was about, but it laid dormant for a couple of years. I eventually realized that Blogger offered a lot more features that I wanted and now I use them like crazy. Is WordPress the next progression in my blogging career? We'll see in a couple of years.
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Update: I can tell already that I don't like using ScribeFire
I've been looking at new blogging software, lately, because my dot mac account will expire in October. I'm trying to figure out whether there are other and/or better alternatives to dot mac's lame features. The only reason I'd stay with dot mac is the ease of synchronizing data and its seemless integration with I already have. Laziness aside, dot mac is very limiting.
I've been looking for hosting packages that could support alternative services. So far, no luck in finding comparable packages that are easy to set up. I'm pretty proficient in the ways of the computer, but a lot of these tweaks require a Unix geek. I could move away from dot mac, but that would entail learning a foreign language.
If I do subscribe to a new host, I would like to add the blog to it. I could use Blogger to run the blog on my own host. The only alternative that I would be willing to try is WordPress. Open source, good. Free (as in both freedom and beer), also good. I've read a couple articles comparing WordPress and Blogger. Both have their respective strengths. I opened a WordPress.com blog just to play around with the WP interface. It's not the same as the WP package that would be installed on your own host, but pretty similar.
This reminds me of my gradual shift from Xanga to Blogger. I started on Xanga for the ease of use and the community. I opened a Blogger account to see what it was about, but it laid dormant for a couple of years. I eventually realized that Blogger offered a lot more features that I wanted and now I use them like crazy. Is WordPress the next progression in my blogging career? We'll see in a couple of years.
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