[FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I am considering starting a blog. Enough of my professional colleagues have them, and enough interesting stuff seems to be happening on them, that it seems a good idea. I was hoping for some collective wisdom about the pros and cons of different

Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Douglas Roberts
You'll be sorry. :) Look what happened to one discontented LANL employee when he started one http://parrot-farm.net/lanl-the-real-story/. Maybe it's ok to start one if you're *contented*, though. --Doug -- Doug Roberts drobe...@rti.org d...@parrot-farm.net

Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Saul Caganoff
I use Wordpress that I installed and hosted myself on a godaddy cheapie virtual host - mostly for the experience. You could use the hosted version( wordpress.com) which is free I think? I'm very happy with Wordpress and it seems to be oone of the most popular platforms. Cheers, Saul On 18 May

Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Jon Bringhurst
I've been happy with tumblr.com for quite some time (I'm one of the contented ones ;). -Jon On May 17, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote: You'll be sorry. :) Look what happened to one discontented LANL employee when he started one. Maybe it's ok to start one if you're contented,

Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Eric, I would not advise anyone to start a blog who didn’t have a genuine case of logorrhea. It’s like, gee, wouldn’t it be nice to have a daily column in the newspaper. Yeah, for about a week, but then…..? It’s like having to cook dinner EVERY night. I have logorrhea, but it’s a

Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Victoria Hughes
ho ho ho. Too true. Although personally I prefer 'compulsive communicator'. Victoria On May 17, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: Eric, I would not advise anyone to start a blog who didn’t have a genuine case of logorrhea. It’s like, gee, wouldn’t it be nice to have a daily

Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Victoria Hughes
Note: If you get hosting through HostMonster or BlueHost or any of those, there's no fee for domain registration. GoDaddy will charge you for registration, usually 11.99 a year, plus all sorts of other small duck- pecks that add up. ( I have several accounts with GoDaddy and for

Re: [FRIAM] blog recomendations?

2011-05-17 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
Hi Eric WordPress. If you get stuck or need some customizing I can help you. There are tons of plugins for almost anything - very extensible. Robert Cordingley cirrillian.com http://cirrillian.com On 5/17/11 4:56 PM, ERIC P. CHARLES wrote: Hey all, Against all my wife's better judgment, I