Decaflon

Blogspot is a self-enclosed network. I can't leave a comment with my name and a link to my blog, I must have a blogger account, and log in to participate in a discussion. That essentially isolates everyone not 'in'.

Technologically I have no idea but I do know I started there and my blog over there was hacked twice.

I also hate those word validation things and unless it's a blog I have been reading for some time I don't even look at blogspot blogs which have the validation on, it's ridiculous.

I have one woprdpress.com and one self hosted wordpress blog and I find them easier and more attractive, plus I can see all sorts of wordpress news when I log into it, it gives me feed states and hit states etc.

I am not sure if blogspot does this I just love the wordpress.com over the blogspot and would never suggest anyone use blogspot.

I think wordpress is just easier and more friendly to use. EVEN if you can't add a paypal donate button, not that I'm with paypal... stupid over 18 rules... :D

Blogspot is greedy as it wants everyone to join blogspot, and you need to, to post comments and stuff. But if you already have a gmail email account, it should be all good.. but stilll... wordpress staff are more friendly. Heck you don't even know who works behind blogspot.

At one point, many of us all started with Blogspot. I guess at the end of it, it's what you're most comfortable with. I've had no problems with Blogspot until I discovered that Wordpress (the standalone) has more advantages than Blogspot. I say the biggest limitation in Wordpress.com is the fact you can't edit the theme unless you're willing to pay.

Then again the purpose of Wordpress is to get down straight to content, not spend time glossing up the layout in a teeny bopper way until your readers are blinded.

And I still don't like the captcha's on Blogger.

The one thing that irritates me about blogger is that they have no categories. It's such a simple thing they could do and yet they do not have it.

Wordpress.com has a bunch of cool statistic tracking software onboard so that's always cool too.

Some features of Wordpress tool itself provide a lot of benefit on Wordpress.com. Pages are excellent, easier to separate and manage posts and non-chronological content. The categories are great, the new blogspot has labels, but Wordpress also provides feed per category. So, I can offer my readers feeds by category.

Wordpress.com allows you to set another page as a homepage, which can build a non-blog website. The community tools are great, the tags across community work very well.

I feel that Wordpress.com also listens more to the community for adding themes and plugins. The feedback facility provided in the administration area lets you talk to the guys behind the tool directly.

I think you'll be hard pressed to find anyone with half a brain thats used both extensively that won't take WP everytime.

I could be wrong of course, but WordPress all the way!

The reason why I never used Blogspot: I refuse to have a link at the top of my site where my reader can click over to another blog and I have no control over the link.

oniTony,
Actually you can, unless the author of the blog set the comments to be only registered users. Wordpress also have this feature.

cooper,
I started with blogspot too. Now I have my main blog with wordpress.com. Blogspot doesn't have the hit and feed stats. Have to subscribe other stats service.

Alvinz,
How you know they are friendly at wordpress.com? By the way, blogspot staff are those in google!

Kamigoroshi,
Yeah, I agree with you. I'm just not willing to pay at the moment. Am planning to host wordpress blog myself. At least I can have a few blogs in a hosting. It's cheaper than subscribing to wordpress.com. But I'll have to set it up myself.

Michael,
Yes, I also dislike blogspot for not having categories. Now they have labels but I'm just lazy to go through their help system to read how to set it up for my beta version blogspot template.

anadgouda,
Thanks for the input. I agree with you.

ConnorWilson,
You are right! I started using Blogspot. Switching to wordpress and now in the midst of setting up my own hosting for wordpress blog. Cheers mate.

Tyme,
Actually you can disable that one unless you are using blogspot to earn money from advertisement. Otherwise they won't be going around checking out each blog for the top bar.