Various blogging platforms.

The other day, one of my blogging trainees asked if all the free and paid blogging platforms are web 2.0 based. I said yes though I think some of them simply command terrific respect by the search engines.

Whether a blogger likes or not the blogger platform, it is by far the best blogging platform when you speak in terms of web 2.0 features.

Here are some more blogging platforms and I can proudly say I have a blog on all of them:

Wordpress: http://wordpress.org

Blogger: https://www.blogger.com

Type Pad: http://www.typepad.com

Livejournal: http://www.livejournal.com

Weebly: http://www.weebly.com/

Wet Paint: http://www.wetpaintcentral.com/

Blog Drive: http://www.blogdrive.com/

Movable Type: http://www.movabletype.com/

Webs: http://www.webs.com/

Joomla :http://joomla.org

Web Node: http://www.webnode.com/

Which Blog Platform Should I use?

For a beginner blogger, these are questions that will come to their mind;

• ‘Which Blog Platform Should I use?’
• ‘Should I use a free Blogger.com blog or get my own hosted blog on my own Domain? Which Blog Platform is best?’
• ‘What are the Pros and Cons of going with WordPress as a blog platform?’

I’m not going to tell you which blog platform you should use because, ultimately, the decision is to be taken by you only based on your goal. I will lay the bare facts; you decide.

Ponder before deciding on a blog platform:

You can change your blog platform at a later time but these are issues you will have to face:

Blog transfer cost

Changing from a free hosted blog service to a self hosted one means changing your domain name itself which has implications on Search Engine traffic.

Again getting comfortable with a new blogging platform

All your efforts to promote your previous blog domain will be wasted. You will have to start all over again.

I know starting with blogger.com is the easy way out but wordpress is better option in the long term even though the learning curve at the beginning is a bit steep.

What are tumblelogs?

I am not a lazy blogger but sometimes I too would like behave like one; that is blog with a just a few lines or just an image that will self expressive.

But pro blogging requires that I follow certain norms and that is a blog post with a minimum of 100 words is must, not to speak about 200 worded posts.

Tumblr is great if you don’t have time to blog, but still want to share something now and again. It lets you easily post videos, pictures, links, and of course you can write there too. They have expressed it nicely: "To make a simple analogy: If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks."

You can also look at tumblelogs as slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share stuff you find or create.

A tumblelog is a variation of a blog that favors short-form, mixed-media posts over the longer editorial posts frequently associated with blogging. Common post formats found on tumblelogs include links, photos, quotes, dialogues, and video. Unlike blogs, this format is frequently used to share the author's creations, discoveries, or experiences without providing a commentary.

I just registered but yet to do the basic work.