Blogger vs Wordpress vs Tumblr

Ok, I've been blogging for just over 9 months now and I think it's time for a bit of reflection. You see, I started using Blogger's service only for this blog and my own blog (which I have discontinued). I love blogger. I love its layout and the fact you can edit just about everything in a professional manner yet also use it as a complete novice. However, I have always wanted to have my own blog elsewhere, so I tried wordpress. I didn't like it. There was no html editor like on blogger, and I felt uncomfortable with the dashboard. So, after a short spell of a few weeks with wordpress, I switched to tumblr for my personal blog and it is with tumblr that I have felt most comfortable.


However, wordpress isn't totally useless. Wordpress is the only service that shorts posts down to a wp.me/My-Post link whereas blogger does nothing and tumblr just has a post link which you can customise. So, wordpress wins in the URL department with tumblr coming second and blogger failing miserably.


Wordpress is also the only one to offer its own statistics about visitors, whereas for the others I use a statcounter. However, the wordpress one is nowhere near as good as a statcounter so, despite its first place, I still think I'd still install a statcounter in the long run. However, in other services, tumblr lets you reblog posts as well as like them. Blogger and Wordpress don't have this but Blogger has its own stuff. In the layout section of blogger, you can choose from over a thousand sidebar widgets for your site which is unmatched by Wordpress and Tumblr. You can also put 3rd party HTML codes in, but tumblr also allows this to a certain extent.


However, tumblr does have an advantage for storage. Blogger limits you to 1GB, Wordpress to 3, but as far as I can tell, tumblr has no limit. This is great, because I can upload images on the go and at home all I want, whereas for blogger and wordpress I'd use yfrog as it is unlimited and works well with twitter.


Tumblr also has something else going for it. Different types of post. On blogger and wordpress, you make posts. Whereas on tumblr, you can make photo posts, text posts (which you can add photos to), video posts, quotes, chats and audio posts! This is great as some of my posts are just funny images.


Also, tumblr is incredibly easy to use. I have also set up mobile for it, although I can't put captions on a photo post, or a photo on a word post, so I can only do either or. However, that's fine by me as I can put text in later or just do 2 posts.


So, the best service for online blogging is: Tumblr. It is just so easy to use, so well engineered and also well integrated with other blogs. I love it, and use it all the time. So, see my tumblr here and don't worry, I'll still use blogger for technokratos.