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DigitalEl · Oct 6, 2003, 06:24 PM

Anyone using iBlog? I downloaded it after it became a freebie w/my .Mac service, but have yet to really put it through its paces.

Anyone have a page they'd like to share? If not here, feel free to PM me. I'd love to see what some of you are doing w/this software.

Developer · Oct 6, 2003, 06:29 PM

http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/

"66.0% of surveyed blogs had not been updated in two months, representing 2.72 million blogs that have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned. Apparently the blog-hosting services have made it so easy to create a blog that many tire-kickers feel no commitment to continuing the blog they initiate. In fact, 1.09 million blogs were one-day wonders, with no postings on subsequent days. The average duration of the remaining 1.63 million abandoned blogs was 126 days (almost four months). A surprising 132,000 blogs were abandoned after being maintained a year or more (the oldest abandoned blog surveyed had been maintained for 923 days). ..."

In other words, blogging is not popular any more. You missed the hype.

Horsepoo!!! · Oct 6, 2003, 06:35 PM

Blogging was never popular. Especially personal blogs. Nobody wants to hear about other people's boring life stories.

MacGorilla · Oct 6, 2003, 06:38 PM

I keep a blog, mostly as an outlet and to keep my scattered family up to date:
http://www.sparkpod.com/zizban

Nottin' exciting there, though.

ambush · Oct 6, 2003, 07:09 PM

Originally posted by Horsepoo!!!:
Blogging was never popular. Especially personal blogs. Nobody wants to hear about other people's boring life stories.

Unsanity.org is a good example of a successful blog...

And it incorporates personal life and coding/apps.

I have a blog, but it's mostly private.

Horsepoo!!! · Oct 6, 2003, 07:19 PM

Originally posted by ambush:
Unsanity.org is a good example of a successful blog...

And it incorporates personal life and coding/apps.

I have a blog, but it's mostly private.

Company blogs are mostly succesful. Personal blogs aren't.

Hyatt's blog was good...but he's slowed the pace to a crawl.

PerversionTracker's blog is excellent.

John Smith's blog is a disaster...not to mention boring.

DigitalEl · Oct 7, 2003, 07:00 AM

In other words, blogging is not popular any more. You missed the hype.

Unlike your average teenager jumping on a fad, I'm not looking to do what's "popular," I have a good use for wanting to find a great and user-friendly blogging utility.

My second child is due early next year and I want to do a website I can update often, quickly and easily in order to keep out of town relatives and friends updated. For my daughter, I created a site using .Mac's templates... But I want something even easier.

My daughter's site was beautiful, but somewhat time consuming. I'll do it that way again if I have to, but just want to check out any possible alternatives.

DigitalEl · Oct 7, 2003, 07:08 AM

...and what's this RSS business I see on every blog site?

midwinter · Oct 7, 2003, 12:07 PM

Originally posted by DigitalEl:
...and what's this RSS business I see on every blog site?

It's an XML feed of the site's content. That way you can read a site without having to actually go to it with a web browser. I keep about 150 sites in my RSS newsreader, and get immediate notificiation that they've been updated.

iBlog is a nice little thing, but it's really, really limited when compared to the serious tools like Moveable Type or pMachine. I've used both on my site, and liked both. I only switched to Moveable Type by accident (long story).

I use iBlog to keep my lecture notes online for my students, but I don't like it that I can't sync up my blogs between two computers, so I'm taking that slowly.

Cheers
Scott

:haripu: · Oct 7, 2003, 04:20 PM

Yes. I have tried to use iBlog, but my life hasn't become any more interesting at all.
What crappy software!

DeathMan · Oct 7, 2003, 08:19 PM

I like iBlog okay. It would be nice if you could update it from a web interface or something, but other than that, I like it a lot.

starman · Oct 8, 2003, 08:55 AM

Personal blogs are only interesting to the people that know you. I don't need to know what Joe Blow did today.

Back on topic, I have issues with iBlog. MoveableType is all-around a better system, and since it's on the web, you can use it under Mac or Windows (or anything else for that matter). Better still, I can use MT from more than one Mac. I don't like being locked into using one app on one machine for web-based work.

Mike

midwinter · Oct 8, 2003, 10:07 AM

Originally posted by starman:
Personal blogs are only interesting to the people that know you. I don't need to know what Joe Blow did today.

Back on topic, I have issues with iBlog. MoveableType is all-around a better system, and since it's on the web, you can use it under Mac or Windows (or anything else for that matter). Better still, I can use MT from more than one Mac. I don't like being locked into using one app on one machine for web-based work.

Mike

You can also install MT (or pMachine) on your Mac. Very handy, I think.

RooneyX · Oct 8, 2003, 10:24 AM

I used to Blog years ago before the term was even invented. I hardly ever continued it for more than a week. I reasoned it was for people with Attention Deficit Disorder or for voyeurs.

RoofusPennymore · Oct 8, 2003, 12:26 PM

Check out the iBlog webring: http://w.webring.com/hub?ring=ibloggers