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Sunday, May 22, 2005

why blogger?

I chose this blogging...thingy because the others didn't have as many fonts. Well, sort of. Typepad wants you to pay them, which is fair, and I don't not-want-to because I'm cheap, but because I don't really need the services they offer. If I did, I would find their prices absolutely reasonable. Blog-city has a bunch of templates, but won't let me preview them, so I'd have to change, save, post, update, check, reject, change again, save again, etc. Too much process for my attention span and available time. Bloglines had even fewer fonts than this - it combines an RSS reader with blogging software, which is a cool idea, but I didn't really like the way the RSS reader worked. Think I'll stick with Newsgator awhile longer. Anyway, my initial point: I chose blogger.com because it had the most fonts, but there are still not enough. Not for me, because I am always a whisper away from plunging into the abyss of font-geekness. I don't let myself fall because in my line(s) of work, there is no profit in becoming a font-geek, but it's like defying gravity. It requires actual, sustained effort.

Is this working? Is it better than my old blog? I can't decide. Maybe it's too soon to tell. Maybe I should stay with blog-city after all.

2 comments:

Kelly said...

Hey lady- I believe you can edit the html yourself to choose any font you like... of course, others won't see it unless they have that same font...

alala said...

Yeah, I know. Keep meaning to get around to it, but you know how things get sometimes...