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Livejournal Vs. Movable Type
Feb. 9th, 2003 08:33 pmThe latest fad seems to be setting up personal sites using MT, as opposed to just maintaining a journal on a multi user site like this one. "Movable Type" seems to be the equivalent of a PHP BBS but just for the input of a single person.
I considered setting up an MT site myself just to have one, but I'm not sure I have enough to say to make people go to a website just to read my stuff all by itself. I get relatively few comments on my LJ postings, so I don't know how many people are actually reading it. I could spend a lot of effort on such a site and only get the chirping cricket effect. Some people like [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] are popular enough to do that, and technical enough to throw in an RSS feed to their LJ to cover those they leave behind, but I doubt I need to look into that for mzself. I had a blogger up for about two years with no readers as far as I could tell.
Now that doesn't mean I will not be reading the other ones - I just don't have enough material to put one up of my own. LJ will do for me.
I considered setting up an MT site myself just to have one, but I'm not sure I have enough to say to make people go to a website just to read my stuff all by itself. I get relatively few comments on my LJ postings, so I don't know how many people are actually reading it. I could spend a lot of effort on such a site and only get the chirping cricket effect. Some people like [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] are popular enough to do that, and technical enough to throw in an RSS feed to their LJ to cover those they leave behind, but I doubt I need to look into that for mzself. I had a blogger up for about two years with no readers as far as I could tell.
Now that doesn't mean I will not be reading the other ones - I just don't have enough material to put one up of my own. LJ will do for me.
