I set up a new blog on Blogger. I will not give you the url yet because I do not have it set up good or any content. I talked here about which is the best free site to set up a blog.
I said I loved WordPress but I use the self hosting one and not the free WP home site. The "free" WP site hosting is great but if you want to have a good site there are a few extras that you want to add that they have a small fee for using.
Blogger appears to be 100% free.
I do see a problem with Blogger. There is no way to import an old blog. So I can not import my old Howard's Notebook or import the content from ShowMeBlog. If you already have a blog set up and you just want to move it there then you got a problem.
With TypePad, WordPress and other sites you can move your data.
So if I were a person that did not have a blog and wanted to start one which hosting service would I use? I would say it would be; TypePad, WordPress or Blogger.
If I already had a blog and I wanted to move the data over to a new service it would be TypePad or WordPress.
Now TypePad is a pay site. Over the years I have paid them close to $800.00 I am guessing.
I do not have a problem with paying for good service. I know many of you have the idea that things on the www should be free. I understand that feeling…I was around before the start of the www during the bulletin board days. I ran a free bulletin board system from 1982 to 1995 and then I moved the BBS to the www.
In the documentary "BBS: The Documentary" there is a lot of discussion about pay vs free systems and services. I am in that documentary. Yes, I am a movie star! Smile
A lot of "SysOp" and others are in the documentary. I am only in it about three times and only for about a few seconds each time.
It is a three DVD documentary. Who do you think gets the biggest laugh out of the entire documentary? Yes, my friends your humble blogger here Jim Howard.
I was at the first screening in CA and Jascon Scott told me that I was the funny man of the documentary. Smile
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