My thoughts on wordpress.com (and a little bio on my blogging history!)

Web Diary. Web Journal. Web Log….Blog.

The first such big blogging web site was Open Diary, it really was as it sounds, an online diary. I actually have a private account with them, nothing special, I just wanted to test them out. Meh really. I can’t take the credit though of starting up with them in the early days of web blogging as I didn’t know of the site at the time. I just started an account a few months ago to see their layout, tis all.

My experience rooted from the same early years of Open Diary, but through personal pages that were free from my AOL account. The webpage I made was meh. It was just a bunch of nonsense you’d expect a 13 year old to throw up on a web site. “I like boobs!”

The free AOL service did have it’s problems, and the search for something better was launched. The next site was on Angelfire, before Lycos join up, or buy out, whatever they did. This page was meh, it had a purpose, but not really. It simply was met to share my current taste of music to the world. Yet the world really had no way of looking at it, so it stayed in my group of friends and classmates. “TKK rocks man!” Though, if one did know HTML, they could do marvelous things to their own page..I knew little about this language.

The experimenting with Geocities followed the next year. I had a new taste in music, and wanted to share it on a different web site. I heard great things about Geocities, so I wanted to try it. So I did. Honestly, at least at the time, the same exact thing. From which came good old teenage band fanaticism…”LOA forever!”

The birth of Sythantat shortly followed…sigh. Sythantat I even bought a domain name to, www.sythantat.com. It was met to promote my musical ambitions. Sadly, I didn’t know much about that kind of stuff..but learned as I failed. Sythantat’s web domain was due for repayment the end of the year.. I decided due to the fact that I wasn’t attempting to make any more music, that I’d end it.

A year later, my energy that was left with the end of my music aspirations turned into writing short stories. My friend introduced me to Livejournal.com. At the time this was an awesome site, I was able to post without worrying about html, and relying on my friends help for such. I posted a good amount of short stories, though within the years to come I decided to end it due to lack of interest in the site. Sadly..with ending it..it was all deleted.

From the end of my Livejournal account, came the rise of Myspace. “A place for friends”. The blogging here was generally crap compared to Livejournal blogging, and to this day remains by far the worst blogging tool I have ever used. I only use it not for quick notes to my friends on my account, which I still use, for the same reason as I use Facebook, connecting with old friends, and whatz not. Friendster isn’t really worth it btw, their day came, and is now gone..for good.

I did attempt a myspace blogging campaign called “Battle Puppymills”, it’s effort was to teach people about the horror stories behind pet store bought pets, and the industries big brand food companies such as Hills (Science Diet, and Hill’s Prescription Pet Food). It gained support but there were no end goals besides abolishing puppy mills. The problem is it was one of 1000s of blogs that pertained to this. Granted, I did gain a good amount of valuable connections through this campaign. However the fact that so many people were doing the same thing all at once sorta diluted it’s potential.

Near the end, I started to play with my first wordpress account. Under estimating how powerful WordPress was in regards to the tag lines, keywords, and search engine results, my blog being fairly generalized focused on township relating issues, from which the concept of the dog park was brought to an entry. The concept was one that would need some maturing..after being the biggest hit on the blog site..I decided it was time to start up a side blog for the dog park, calling it the Bucks County Dog Park Initiative. This went over amazingly well, and from that I disbanded my old blog from before.

I have been looking around at other blog service sites such as blogger.com, blog.com, vox.com and a few others. All of the blog sites I’ve been to offer templates, like WordPress, which are free. They help cut back on the annoyance of having to do the coding yourself. They also allow you to costume edit the image heading and what nots.

The thing you need to notice is if you want to blog and decide to do it, there are a lot of free services out there. A lot of the free services have VIP services where people pay, and with that they often get placed in the “featured” section. If thats what you want then great, but it’s not needed, over time your blog will obtain the attraction you wish it will obtain as long as you keep it interesting enough. I’m staying with wordpress as of now, mainly because I really do enjoy their service over Xanga, Livejournal, Blogger, Blog.com, Vox.com, and a few others that I have tried. I don’t exactly know why, it just really seems a lot more user friendly.

When you open an account you’ll find theres a forum section full of nice fellow bloggers willing to help you out with any questions problems you may have. So that’s that, my wordpress solute blog…hey it seems that everyone has one these days. That and the “how to” blogs about wordpress..but yea..you wont see me writing a “how to”…I don’t know that much about this site

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