Blogs

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Zhi Xiang

Well… I think this would be my first post that is not directly related to games (though it does relate to IT)

Well, for blog that are many different kinds of blogs that you can use. The most commonly seen ones are Blogger, WordPress and Live Journal. The one that I like the most is Blogger while WordPress is the one that I don’t like the most…

Blogger is for ease of use for new bloggers as Blogger really helps alot in terms of, well…, everything!! I can just finish a long post WITH pictures included in around 10, 20 minutes. I have around 60 plus posts in my current Blogger blog.

For WordPress, it is quite organised, but I have a few issues with it. First of all, the upload of pictures to WordPress is ridiculously slow and complicated, unlike Blogger’s copy and paste. You have to browse for the picture that you want and wait for a long while, as opposed to just copy and paste the picture in Blogger. I could just upload more than 30 plus pictures in Blogger while waiting for 1 picture to be uploaded in WordPress. Another issue I have with it is that it is laggy sometimes. What I meant by laggy is that sometimes while typing words down, it lags, which really makes it easy to make mistakes. Currenty, I’m only using WordPress because yours truly is blogging in this blog. LOL :)

For Live Journal, I just started a blog where I will put up my stuff there. 1 big issue that I have with LJ is that the password must have at least 1 number/symbol in it. Well, their reason for it was for security reasons, but come on…. you don’t have to put in numbers/symbols to have a strong password which forced me to reset my password… Well, once I use LJ more, I would be able to have a better viewpoint about it.

There are other kinds of blogging systems and also personalised blog addresses. For people who want ease of use of are just lazy, Blogger would be good. For those who do not take many photos and can bear with lag, WordPress suits their need. LJ is still an unknown quality for me so I won’t commen t about it, but those who prefer passwords without any numbers shouldn’t use it.

Blogs can be important for your career, since they can put up ur stuff to show to potential employers, and/or for your job, you can also put up stuff that you’re working on. It can also be personal to you. Well, whatever blog system you’re using it, just make sure you don’t get any trouble with the law… :)

Zhi Xiang

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One Response

  1. Dr. Foo CY, on July 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm Said:

    There’s a much easier solution: use Windows Live Writer:

    http://download.live.com/writer

    It’s a standalone program that lets you blog on a wide range of platforms, including Blogger and WordPress.

    And yes, you can cut & paste pictures directly using Writer. All the blogs I write I do so on Writer… exclusively. So much easier.:)

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