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I’ve tried many of the blogging “systems” and tools that are out there…started with Blogger back in 2000, then moved on to GreyMatter, then Movable Type, and have now been with WordPress for over three years. GM and MT are great, in their own ways, but GM was a bit harder to tweak than others, and MT took *forever* to rebuild whenever you made changes. Blogger, however, I still use for some small sites that I tinker with; it’s still a great tool for quick blogging. And besides, you never quite get over your first love, right?
In between all of those, I’ve also established accounts at other hosted services in order to test drive the product: LiveJournal, GeoCities, Vox, Yahoo 360, Typepad, and most recently MySpace. The LJ community is much more “internally” focused than the blogging community at large; Vox is still too new to figure out; Yahoo 360 didn’t seem to go anywhere; TypePad is pretty cool; and MySpace - well, quite simply, I’m baffled about the success of MySpace. Almost without exception, the few MySpace sites that I’ve visited are absolutely painful to look at. The design and layout - ouch! But someone who read one of my other sites asked me if I knew how to design a background incorporating her school mascot, so I gave it a shot, and wound up using it on my own MySpace page. Anyway…it’s great that there are so many options for veteran bloggers, medium bloggers, and newbies.
So now it’s your turn: what blogging services and software have YOU used, and which do you prefer? Any strong feelings about any of them, pro or con?