Blog ’till you drop

There are so many blogging platform we can use to share our thoughts, ideas or whatever you’d like to call it. Most of them are free and some came pre-bundled when you sign up at facebook, friendster, myspace, multiply and other social networking sites. But there are only few good services that can really provide you an ultimate blogging experience.

Ever wonder why friendster doesn’t have a friendly text editor and why facebook’s notes is not so friendly and some of them doesn’t even come with a built in spell checker and dictionary where supposedly should be included if we look in the web standards, well that’s because it is only considered as their side service which means that they(developers) doesn’t care or look on the end user expectation and comfortability as well experience while using the service which they offer.

To let you know there are so many blogging platform and services which offers more features than the traditional one you are stuck at. For this matter WordPress should be first introduced for its superb features, capabilities and the way it interact to the bloggers like us. There are three flavor of wordpress namely; WordPress.org where you can download the complete platform and install it on your own web hosting account, WordPressMu the multi-user equivalent of WordPress.org which allows you to host several blogs – multi user. And lastly WordPress.com offering free blogging account giving you the most features you need most.

Blogger or Blogspot should definitely be included in your list because of its simplicity and lightweight that you can truly access even if you’re in a limited bandwidth. It offers simple but powerful features like the ability to connect several blogs onto it.

Tumblr allows you to post not just text, but as well other media types with ease. It even come with the ability to repost all your latest blog post to twitter and other social networking sites. It comes with simplicity in design.

Having a dedicated blogging blogging platform can save you a lot of headaches specially if you’re a serious blogger with a hundreds of reader. Most of the Platform had the following features;

1. Your own domain-sub domain (eg. aronjay.com pointed to aronjay.wordpress.com or simply just aronjay.wordpress.com)

2. Rich text editor, dictionary and spell checker

3. Pre-bundled services like the ability to show your post in other sites (eg. facebook connect, google reader)

4. Live post preview, Save drafts, Scheduled posts

5. Comments reader, Tag reader(manage your tags), Polls, Ratings

6. Blogger directory, Dashboard, Fast responsive blog

7. Categories, Media, Links

8. Subscriptions (connect with other bloggers and have their latest post right ahead in your dashboard)

9. Chose from hundred of themes, Add users (two or more writers in one blog)

10. Customize site name, Privacy(who can view your blog), Statistics

Much more awaits and added every time a platform releases a new version. So if I we’re you, I mean if you are really interested on blogging and you really love to share it to the whole world and be known then its really the right time to leave your traditional, ancient pre-added blogging platform you are using.

I’m not a total hater of pre-added services I just don’t usually use them because I know there are better to tools that we can use if we can just be resourceful in everything we do.

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