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[serene]

I'm going to start a blog for the magazine. What do you think -- LJ or Blogger or Wordpress or Typepad or what?

Comments

[baerana.livejournal.com]

LJ

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

I vote for Wordpress for publishing professional looking blogs which are more about one-to-many communication, rather than many-to-many. Lots of very handy widgets to use as well.

[mackenzie]

I love the look and feel of WordPress, but I also love using Apture as an addon, which is only an option with Blogger (and certain other platforms).

[lizzibabe.livejournal.com]

I have a knee-jerk reaction about LJ: I think of it as something for personal use, not professional use.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Apture's site says it works on WordPress.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Good point. I think of the magazine as a mix of personal and professional. That is, I don't want anything about it to be too slick -- it's a love project, and I want my love for it to shine out.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*nod* One benefit of WordPress is that I know how to set one up because I had to do it for work a few times.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I do love the personal feel of LJ, and I've seen it done well as a business-related site. (theppk.com used to use LJ, and it was totally integrated into their site, as one example).

[mackenzie]

If you self-host the WordPress blog, yes, but if you have a WordPress-hosted blog, no.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a point for LJ. Whatever you use, I'll follow!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Oh, got it. I plan to self-host.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I think that Wordpress makes sense for anything that's supposed to look even kind of professional. At least, I wouldn't use LJ for that, and of the non-LJ platforms, I like Wordpress the best.

[abostick59.livejournal.com]

The only reason I use LJ for personal communication is the pre-exsting network of close acquaintances on LJ. At this point you can't trust the LJ admins not to close down your account arbitrarily (and this was true even before 6 Apart sold out to the Russians). Blogger's reputation isn't as bad, but I basically do not trust mass third-party blog hosts.

I would recommend self-hosting the blog, and using WordPress.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

seconded. lj has more of a 'conversation' than a 'blog' feel to it.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

So if I preferred the blog for the magazine to have more of a conversation feel than a blog feel, LJ would be your recommendation? (Because the more I think about it, the more that's the case, but I'm not sure that the non-LJ blogs I read aren't conversationny.)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

the trouble with lj (or at least with my perception of lj) is that it's not a privileged conversation - as trixtah notes, it's a many-many thing. there's a continuous ongoing conversation-space in which voices come and go and connect to other voices. a blog is more one-many in that there's a clear entity who "owns" the conversation, in the sense of providing direction and setting the basic tone and parameters.