I didn’t post yesterday.. because… IT WAS MY BIRTHDAY!! HAPPY BIRYHDAY ME! and Airi Suzuki & Hitomi Yoshizawa

I figured… I’ve used this long enough and I might as well make some comments about it… First off… so many people have wordpress accounts. I can’t blame them though, I mean, I have one myself and I’ve been on soooo many different blogging things, off the top of my head I’ve tried: Vox, LiveJournal, Xanga, Blogger, Bravenet, I tried the one on MySpace for a little bit… and those are just the ones I can remember, meaning anything else I tried failed so miserably I can’t even remember the name. And there have been times when I signed up for one checked out the features (well, in these cases, lack-of features) realize it doesn’t suit my needs and left. I think I’ll go over my experiences with some of the ones I remember…

I checked into Blogger to see what was up with that. Well, first off, it doesn’t have designs, it says layout and I clicked it and of course it’s just “where should the text be in relation to the links” and that stuff, which really doesn’t allow for a creative energy to flow. Before that, the first thing I saw was a list, and it looked like the way it should’ve been formatted was to have lots of different blogs, which didn’t make any sense to me. And it almost looked like there were supposed to be different profiles for each blog. Which looks like trickery to me. I don’t have a problem with people having different blogs, but why completely change who you are when you’re talking about something you enjoy. You see, my personal preference, is to just have one blog, with lots of posts on anything and about anything I wish to write about. It’s either that, or I could have a million different blogs that get updated once a month, of course I’d never remember where any goes anyway so one blog is easier for me. Any way, point is, blogger doesn’t allow much freedom and posting made me feel like I was just scribbling something down on a post-it note and putting it on a fridge, which really wouldn’t bother me if they allow a design to make it look like sticky notes on a fridge which just the header of the note and then you click on it and it pops out with the text, that would be cool-but it doesn’t.

I remember Vox, I can’t really place my finger on it… okay, so I logged back in (because my computer remembered all the info I needed to log in) apparently I made 17 posts in the year 2007 on that account… and each post was about the length of one of these paragraphs. So I’m looking around pressing buttons getting no where, and that’s when it hit me. the design I chose was adorable (which means Vox has some pretty cute designs because although I love the computer I’m terrible at it) of course getting no where has me realize that Vox just didn’t make any sense to me. It looks like they added some new features, but if you can’t navigate a site then what’s the point. I clicked “create” which I figured to be “New post” which it was, and that was about the only thing that made sense to me. I wanted to look at the format and set-up to see if there was a reason I was so hindered from actually writing anything more than a few sentences long (because I really do babble on). It just didn’t feel official, it wasn’t like writing on post-it notes. but at the same time, it felt like each post should only be a few sentences long. It’s quite bothersome. It has lots of colors, but it’s definitely not for a young adult. It’s probably best for middle schoolers and no one else. Of course I wasn’t in middle school in 2007, it was High school, but nonetheless the fact is, I tried it, didn’t like it, and moved on to something better.

Xanga- it’s really cute and adorable from what I’ve seen and remember, but of course it’s more for younger teens or people who are just there for the cute factor. As for me, while I do like the ‘cute’ look of it, it’s too middle school-ish. And although I use sarcasm terribly and can’t spell or speak properly for my life. I feel that wordpress allows for a person to be taken more seriously.

Bravenet & MySpace aren’t even to be mentioned, MySpace sucks in general. And then Bravenet is actually really cool, it lets you try all these really cool web tools for free, of course there are designs on the blog, but I just didn’t see it as a place to blog because it was just so versatile and I had been using it as mostly an “upgrade” on my website at the time, it’s free, but there are lots of cool features. Mailing lists, guestbooks, message forums, photo albums, webpolls, chat room, counter stats, online calendar, site search, etc. Think of it as a google, but you can put the features onto your personal website and it relates to only your website. Meaning if you put a chat room on your website, anyone on your website who opens the chat room and talk to each other, but it wont invade other random chat rooms. The site search is just for your website. and etc. It’s pretty cool, I really enjoyed using them. I haven’t used it in a million years though, simply because this is my “website”. So I had to make a new username, of course I remember how cool it was, so it doesn’t bother me

As far as Live Journal is concerned, it’s not bad, but it’s more for people who want to be part of a group, you know, affiliated and all that stuff. And as much as I’d like to affiliate with someone… who would I affiliate with? Another blog with controversial topics? I have plenty of posts that aren’t controversial. Music? Well although I do have quite a few lengthy posts on music and quite a few posts on music, it’s music in general and all the controversy with the other topics just would work well in a music community. It’s just random, whatever I feel the need to post about, and as everyone knows I’m not good at posting interesting things. In fact, I’m on break now and that makes it even harder to focus and actually write things. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love blogging, but I’m rarely on track and there’s nothing consistent, from the posts itself to me actually posting, most of it’s “NOOO I MUST FILL THE GAP FIND SOMETHING MINDLESS TO WRITE ABOUT!” I had lyric translations going on for a while…what’s up with that? Actually I was out of the state and didn’t have access to a computer and wordpress lets me choose the month, date, year, and TIME (not just hours, minutes as well) for something to be posted.

This is an attempt for a transition into why wordpress has kept me so long. Although I really started going back to blogging just this January, I’ve had it for so much longer, think about it, almost a year goes by and I can still remember my username and password. I actually went back to this blog… it’s really quite amazing for a virtual roamer such as myself. I got this account Jan. 29, 2008 and around Dec. re-discovered it… so now I’m trying to keep it updated and this might seem like a filler post, but I actually did want to ramble on and on about this. Wordrpess allows for nice designs, it allows for more creative energy to flow and it’s not all about what community you’re part of, or how many friends you have or anything like that. It’s about posting what you want and expressing your thoughts, but it gives you the proper formatting tools, it lets you upload music, pictures, movies, it lets you put in polls and all that good stuff. It also gives you the option of creating your own design, it lets you see how many visitors you’ve got every day, every month, every year, it compares it visually so you don’t just see numbers. If it was just numbers, I’d be annoyed, but it’s a line chart, so you roll over the dot to get the exact number. It’s fun seeing the difference, and if I see it declines greatly it motivates me t post something, even though I know it’s not about the posts, I really enjoy seeing them.

I’m not advertising it, it’s a review… really…