Fancy Some New Weblogging Playground ? – WordPress.com Is Open for Business
If you remember, from the very first beginning of elsua, I mentioned in the first weblog post how I was using for the last few months a hosted weblog over at Blogsome to have a look and try things for a little while before I would jump into creating, maintaining my own Internet weblog. And for over seven months I was quite happy with giving it a try and share some content to the point where in the end I decided to dive in in full force and then elsua was born.
You would probably remember how Blogsome is using one of my favourite weblogging platforms: WordPress, which is also eventually the same platform I am using for this weblog. Well, things are going to get ever so much more interesting because WordPress.com has just announced that their weblogging offering is now available to all and I bet they will present lots of good competition to other popular weblog engines.
I must say that I am really glad I actually tried out WordPress with Blogsome because it helped me take a much better decision and stick around with it for my own hosted weblog over here. And I bet that WordPress.com is going to have the same effect, specially for those folks out there new to weblogging.
Thus congrats to WordPress.com and keep up the good work !
Link to Micro Persuasion (Do check as well the comments. Worth while a read, specially the ones from Eric Giguere when he talks about Blogger isn’t free: The cost of not using your own domain)
Technorati Tags : Metablogging, WordPress, Blogsome
[...] And, finally, since elsua is running on WordPress I thought I would give it a try and see how it would go further. But alas it looks like entering the data selecting the option WordPress does not seem to work, probably because it is just configured to work if you have got a weblog hosted over at WordPress.com and nothing else. So in the end I had to go through the WordPress Custom, which seems to have worked out all right. It would have been nice to have had some instructions on what each option was meant to be used for. I know this may be far too simple, but in the weblogging world that is what most of us want: simplicity at its best. [...]