I'm wanting to start a personal blog to write about startup things and am considering a hosted solution for once. What are people using/recommending?
Hosted blogging platform
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#2I use Posterous.
I love it - it gives you enough features but also automates some of the mundane things. It allows custom templates, uploads, and just about anything you'd want for free.
For me, a blog is about the content more than anything. Different platforms don't matter to me as a reader or a person who tries to write stuff. That being said, Posterous is the easiest to work with at the moment. All I have to do is write - there is very little effort I need to put into managing it.
Some issues: If you don't like emailing posts, the WYSIWYG interface they provide isn't amazing (I like it, but it can feel slightly clunky at times). If you need widgets or a drag & drop interface for adding external content, you won't feel at home. These don't really affect me, but everyone's different.
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#3Check whether it lets you export. That could be a massive pain further down the line.
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#4Tumblr, Posterous, Wordpress.com (probably in that order)
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#5I use Posterous. I love it - it gives you enough features but also automates some of the mundane things. It allows custom templates, uploads, and just about anything you'd want for free. For me, a blog is about the content more than anything. Different platforms don't matter to me as a reader or a person who tries to write stuff. That being said, Posterous is the easiest to work with at the moment. All I have to do i…
I like the fact that in drafting a post you simply save it to the drafts folder in your email client. Since my workflow rotates around the Inbox it comes nicely into it.
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#6I would've recommended Posterous a few months ago when they were in their earlier stages, but their "switch to Posterous" campaign has left a bad taste in my mouth, and the web interface has actually gotten incredibly confusing. Nowadays I would use Tumblr.
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#7I love using posterous, though I mainly use it for pictures.
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#8I am using Posterous and can recommend it.
Whatever you choose, make sure to use your own custom domain. Doing so, you can later change your blogging platform wherever you want.
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#9I would've recommended Posterous a few months ago when they were in their earlier stages, but their "switch to Posterous" campaign has left a bad taste in my mouth, and the web interface has actually gotten incredibly confusing. Nowadays I would use Tumblr.
tumblr seems to promote itself as 'microblogging done right' but I guess it's fine for a normal content type blog as well?
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#10I would've recommended Posterous a few months ago when they were in their earlier stages, but their "switch to Posterous" campaign has left a bad taste in my mouth, and the web interface has actually gotten incredibly confusing. Nowadays I would use Tumblr.
tumblr seems to promote itself as 'microblogging done right' but I guess it's fine for a normal content type blog as well?
Yes. You can post just text if you want to, but if there's a link, video, quote, or picture that you want to post, it's obviously going to be pretty easy to do that as well because of the nature of Tumblr.