Blips on MegaWeblog.com

This article was about wordpress.com but it fits megaweblog.com perfect. 

The bare bones explanation is that MEGAWEBLOG.COM offers the a newer, beta version of WordPress that you don’t need to install on your own server.  Instead, you just sign up and immediately get a subdomain on Megaweblog.com (like http://john.megaweblog.com).  You can login and start blogging right away — it’s ease of use is beautiful for the novice blogger.  It supports categories (and subcategories), trackbacks, and all the other trappings that I view as being necessary for any blogging tool.  It has a WYSIWYG interface with a rich text editor, as well as the ability to edit the HTML directly.  It also allows you to upload pictures and then drag and drop them into your posts.  In short, it’s super easy to use, and changing the presentation of your blog takes about two clicks (click on Presentation, and then choose the theme you want).

The shortcomings is you cannot customize the themes yet (you can’t even specify the font color – supposedly changes to this are in the works, as mentioned above it is still in beta).  You also cannot add additional themes or plugins as you can with the full version of WordPress (which requires installation on your on webhost w/a mysql database).

So what you get is a blogging platform that is VERY easy to use, and very slick, but rather limiting for expert bloggers. 

For newbie bloggers, megaweblog.com could be the blogging tool you’ve been waiting for.  And it’s FREE!  If you don’t care about customizing your templates, it sure beats the pants off of Blogger, even in it’s beta form.  More experienced bloggers should check it out, if only to be able to be part of the creation of the next version of WordPress — there is a Forum where you can submit ‘bugs and hugs’ as well as any suggestions of what you think WordPress.com needs to be a more fully functional and customizable blogging tool, and suggestions are often implemented at a rapid rate.

In the not so distant past writers needed an editor and a publisher in order to reach the public. They would find themselves changing their style of writing to fit the advertisers, editors and publishers. Blogging has changed all that. It isn’t just about a journal entry it’s about journalism. Now you can wite about what is important to you and in whatever style suits your fancy. Of course you will still need an audience but this time the audience will be others who think like you or at least like to read the words of someone who thinks like you.

The blog is personal. It touches something in the audience that is elemental. There is a trust built among readers. People have become cynical of the information found in newspapers and magazines. The blogs of today have made a connection with something that is both instantaneous and entertaining. The writers of today can build a following with their daily ruminations and then sell and publish their first book through print-on-demand technology right from their Web site.

Many weblogs can allow visitors to leave public comments, which can evoke a community discussion or a personal tête-à-tête or they can remain non-interactive. Blogs are heavily interconnected communities with bloggers reading and posing comments on each others blogs, linking to them from their own blog and making reference to them in their writings. This is referred to as the blogosphere. There are many sites available that can track the interconnections between them such as Blog Street.

When these interconnections erupt in a burst of activity based on a particular subject or controversy it is referred to as a blogstorm or blog swarm. Your particular blog can take on many different forms. You can review other sites and provide reviews and ratings and article summaries or you can run your blog like a traditional journal. You can add hyperlinks to the latest news headlines. The world of the blog is ever changing and could use a few good writers to add to the soup. Why not you?

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