- Blogging -
The Internet added 4.4 million new hostnames during July - the single largest gain of new sites in a single month, according to Internet services firm Netcraft. The growth surpassed the previous records set in June of this year, which saw a 3.96 million site gain.
The main reason for the quick growth, Netcraft said, is the battle between Microsoft and Google to attract users to their blog services. Both firms contributed significantly to drive the Internet to a new record number of websites, which now stands at 92,615,362 websites. According to the firm, Microsoft added about 858,000 new sites, while Google gained about 568,000 during the month.
Small Initiatives jokes, “And I’ll bet 80 percent of them contain one ‘Hello, World!’ post apiece.”
After reading this I have recollected my recent experience with Blogger. Starting your own blog with Blogger is easier than opening free web-mail account. But you get simplicity at the price of flexibility.
No categories, poor editing tools for both posts and page code, very limited help (as for the page code editing - no help at all).
If you are going to post about your pet or recent vacations for your friends and/or relatives then blogger is probably the best tool to go with. Anything beyond that would require something more flexible.