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Feb. 7th, 2009 11:51 pm
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I'm going to start a blog for the magazine. What do you think -- LJ or Blogger or Wordpress or Typepad or what?

Date: 2009-02-08 08:16 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-02-08 09:01 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-02-08 10:17 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] 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).

Date: 2009-02-08 04:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lizzibabe.livejournal.com
I have a knee-jerk reaction about LJ: I think of it as something for personal use, not professional use.

Date: 2009-02-08 06:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
Apture's site says it works on WordPress.

Date: 2009-02-08 06:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-02-08 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-02-08 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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).

Date: 2009-02-08 07:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] mackenzie
If you self-host the WordPress blog, yes, but if you have a WordPress-hosted blog, no.

Date: 2009-02-08 07:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loracs.livejournal.com
Well, that's a point for LJ. Whatever you use, I'll follow!

Date: 2009-02-08 09:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] serenejournal.livejournal.com
Oh, got it. I plan to self-host.

Date: 2009-02-08 10:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-02-09 06:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2009-02-11 12:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com
seconded. lj has more of a 'conversation' than a 'blog' feel to it.

Date: 2009-02-11 04:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.)

Date: 2009-02-13 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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