Monday, May 17, 2010

ground control to major tom

Test entry for bler's blog as part of assignment for DigIn class 672.

Five minutes ago I got off the phone with a friend of mine who (gasp!) only has a landline phone. Refuses to have a cell phone. He claims not to be a Luddite but rather a 42 year old man with no desire to be in constant contact with people. So maybe a hermit is a better description - a digital hermit. And I respect his decision even as I start adding to the digital tsunami with my first blog.

Curious - is there any subtext to which blog one uses? If one choses blogger, does it have a different connotation than choosing wordpress or livejournal? Is one considered more serious than another or is there demographic divide like age that differentiate between them?
Thanks for reading
Bethany

Bethany

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Bethany

    I've used both Blogger and WordPress. I found Blogger simpler and more intuitive, but that was a few years ago and there were less customization options then, I think. I could easily show coworkers how to maintain and update the Blogger blog.
    WordPress took me a little longer to learn and I had to consult some help resources. I wanted to learn WordPress because there seems to be a trend for public libraries to use WordPress.org for their websites. WordPress.org is more powerful than WordPress.com and is more of a content management system. WordPress.com allows you to create a free blog hosted by WordPress. WordPress.org requires a web host.

    -Jo-Ann

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