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[Evan Zimmerman <evan.zimmerman AT gmail.com>]

If you've read Crooked Timber or Eschaton I'm sure you've noted that
comments and trackbacks are the primary social component there. It may
not be as integrated as LJ, but on the plus side, you don't have to
have a LJ account to contribute fully to those other sites.

Blogspot and typepad both allow comments and trackbacks, as I'm sure
do other hosted services. They both allow you to have your own domain
if you wish and still use their site building tools, and blogspot
offers a free, ad-supported domain if you wish to go that route.


Evan


On Apr 5, 2005 2:16 PM, childers.paula AT epamail.epa.gov
<childers.paula AT epamail.epa.gov> wrote:
> OK, so you guys have just served up a very nice encapsulation of the
> overall "debate" on LJ or Xanga vs. say, Eschaton or Crooked Timber.
> 
> Tanner says blogging is different from journaling because of the focus
> of the individual writer (extro vs. intro) - so why would that cause
> people to treat LJ-based writers who write on serious issues with an
> outward focus in the same way as their lovelorn high-schooler
> counterparts, simply because they use the same blog host?  What kind of
> loopy (il)logic is that?
> 
> Plus, social networking is not just for high schoolers, folks - in fact,
> I thought it was one of the main purposes of this group. And how many of
> you are on Tribe? or Friendster? SN can have valuable real-world uses,
> aside from the simple joy of finding other writers with whom you share
> interests.
> 
> I find it interesting that so many people on a techo-geeky list would
> spew opinions not based on techological fact, but rather hearsay,
> innuendo, and bandwagoning.
> 
> The question remains: what host if not LJ? Blogspot? Somewhere else? And
> no, I'm not buying alternate hosting space.
> 
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