Before I start comparing Live Journal with Blogger, I have to say a word or two about Wordpress.Initially I was about to compare wordpress with Blogger, but their signup process was so tricky, that I eventually went to Live Journal.I am sure many other bloggers will do the same. Also, wordpress sent out a verification email link which had to be clicked inorder to finish the signup process and this email took so long to come that meanwhile I blissfully started out with Live Journal, signed up, created an account and even wrote a private post!
Now coming back to comparison of Blogger and Live journal.
• As soon as a user hits the Blogger URL in address bar, he/she is taken to a page which prompts the user to log in or signup. Live Journal , on the other hand displays the blogs in spotlight.
• Despite the association of Blogger account with Gmail, it does not display any option to view mail or any incoming messages.. Live Journal shows icons for mail/inbox.
• In LiveJournal, options to allow comments etc appear per post whereas in Blogger it is per blog.
• In Live Journal visibility is again per post and not per blog unlike Blogger
• Blogger does not allow to set the mood of the post in words..
• Live Journal has options for IM posting, mobile posting and voice posting
• Live Journal has the permalink option and also ability to mark a post as "memory"
• Blogger allows 1 picture per profile .LiveJournal allows up to 15.
• LiveJournal allows browsing blogs based on subjects. Blogger allows only serial browsing by clicking the next blog option which may or may not be of our interest..
To summarize, I think LiveJournal has far more features and it can be upgraded too.I did not explore what features are available upon upgradation, but I think even the free version is quite a lot! before this class, I was not aware of Live Journal.Now I am certainly going to make use of it. I find it to be a greater tool than Blogger.
February 26, 2009
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