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FREE: blogger training wheels
It's weird how often you read "I started out using blogger" followed by the words "then", "but", and "however", why is that? Blogger's cool, they have most of the gadgets, a decent enough GUI, and they're free. Yet here I am posting from typepad after switching a year or so back.
My guess is that it has something to do with the "it's free" thing. Think about it, cheap is probably one of the worst marketing strategies around, surely then it stands to reason that free, which is pretty much the deep-end of cheap, aint going to be much better, especially if you want to be taken seriously.
Let's face it, we're shallow, and a wee bit simple. Too often we use the price tag as the sole measurement of value.
That's bad, but true, which is bad for blogger.
And that's my point...!
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What I do not get at all, is why some Blogger sites make you have a Blogger identity in order to comment. Here's one such beast:
http://halleyscomment.blogspot.com/
Posted by: David Burn | 15 Aug 2005 23:57:43
Hey David,
Yeah, bugs me to, but bear in mind that that's the authors' choice. Blogger gives them quite a few options in that regard...!
Posted by: Rich...! | 16 Aug 2005 00:08:52
I'm all for banning anonymous comments and might even consider such a move for Adpulp. And I'd happily give Halley a real name and email address in order to comment on her blog, but I don't really want to create a Blogger account.
Posted by: David Burn | 16 Aug 2005 15:49:15
Yeah, but blogger has three options:
- post with blogger account
- anonymous
- other
Have a look at Alexoid's comment system:
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8492261&postID=112414315916051128
The "other" option is when you put in a nick and email addy, of course you could still lie, but hey, it's a start...!
Posted by: Rich...! | 16 Aug 2005 17:04:33
Okay, now I'll set the record straight.
Paid content is shit content.
Paid love is sleazy love.
The best things in life are free.
Free is indicative of originality, quality, innovation, no hidden agenda, no undue influence.
There is a controversy about whether a blogger should accept money to blog nice things about a company.
Call it: blog-stitution, blog-whoring.
"You get what you pay for" is often true, but I don't pay for air, love, sunshine, nature, sleep, or many other things.
Sure, I pay rent, am getting ready to buy a bungalow, I pay for internet access, etc.
What Blogger did was revolutionary, and now Business Week Blogspotting is blaming Blogger and Google for blogbot link farm blogs, plus saying that having a blogspot blog will shut you out of "great" search engines, like IceRocket, which sucks, BTW.
It's so easily seen to be attacking the "communist" idea of free, sharing, non-greed.
We see the arrogant CEOs and CFOs cooking the books, downsizing, offshore outsourcing, raiding pension funds, etc....and we know that greed is ugly and sadistic.
So let's cheer those who provide thing free, who don't worship monetary gain, who do things for the pure love of doing it.
Zero Budget Marketing is a grand experiment that works.
Low budget or no budget can mean innovative genius, not always "junk", though that is also true at times.
I am suspicious of those who attack things because they're free or inexpensive.
I've bought many high ticket items, and hated them.
Posted by: steven streight aka vaspers the grate | 17 Aug 2005 22:57:18
Blogger is free and it works - bottom line. Yes the commenting is slightly annoying, but there is a great alternate in the form of Haloscan which I believe is the easiest and quickest and way of commenting I have seen. The annoying bar at the top of blogspot blogs can easily be removed with a line of code.
It little bit of tweaking here and there and you have a tasty, tasty treat in your hands.
Posted by: Wezzo | 18 Aug 2005 12:21:06
