I know several writers who keep both Livejournal accounts and Blogger accounts. They post everything to both accounts. Since I’ve begun following some blogs over at Blogger, I signed up for an account. (http://onecobbleatatime.blogspot.com/) This means I can comment without having to type out those annoying “prove you’re not a spambot” strings of letters. This leads me to wonder whether I should start cross posting everything. If you have an opinion about why cross posting would be a good or bad thing, leave a comment below.
4 thoughts on “Contemplating Blogger”
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I have a blog over at blogspot, too–slwhitman.livejournal.com–and just run my feed through with a link to my real LJ. I’m not sure how effective it is, and perhaps I should mirror my LJ, but I also manage a MySpace for myself and several for work, and it gets to be a critical mass after a while.
And of course I meant slwhitman.BLOGSPOT.com.
I do the same thing, only I double post on myspace and livejournal, it just makes things easier that way ’cause I have lots more friends on myspace than LJ.
I think the disadvantages outwiegh the advantages.
AFAIK, Blogger has no equivalent for the LJ friends page, so your readers will be visiting the blog directly or following the RSS, both of which can just as easily be done on LJ. Unlike hosting your own blog, you don’t even get the advantage of putting it on your own domain.
You would also have to wrangle two sets of comments. You could keep them separate (in which case readers would either have to look at both blogs or only get half the picture) or attempt to keep them synchronised somehow.
All in all, unless you can fully automate the cross-posting and such in some way (and I’ve thought vaguely about this for my own purposes and can’t see a trivial way to do it for comments) it’s probably not worth it unless Blogger gives you something LJ doesn’t.