Bloggerville

What happens if one who has been used to discussion forums suddenly finds himself confronting a blog? He posts a comment thinking that he is in a forum. What happens is something like this. It is just bad for the owner of the blog. He’ll have to worry about his database overloading.

What is happening to Pinoy Blog. I haven’t been able to access it for days. Is it having the same problem as Powweb? Powweb has been having difficulties with its “legacy servers.” As a result, a lot of its customers — including myself — are getting disgusted. Perhaps www.pinoyblog.com is also in a Powweb legacy server?

Here is a blog that gives an interesting insight on blogging. Follow the links to more materials about the topic.

So Microsoft has entered the blogging bandwagon. They now have their own blog site for MSM members. The idea, I think, is to corner those using MSN services and compete with the other blog sites (mostly for teen and young adults like Xanga and LiveJournal). It is interesting to see how this new Microsoft venture will look like in the long run. Would it mean a new product? Perhaps.

If you are strapped for cash and you need a professional looking weblog, why not make use of WordPress’s free blog sites? I think that a blog like the one I have now is far more practical to have than let’s say something from TypePad which can cost a lot.

Blogging should come natural, but for the application used. There are quite a number of people I know who can write and who can type but feel daunted when confronting an interface that is web-based, and not typewriter or MSWord based. It is a good thing that there are sites like Blogsome that offer their facilities for free. Otherwise the really good writers won’t be empowered to make use of this new technology. And the WWW would be less rich without them.