Others have shared their opinions & experiences on this subject, here are mine:Generally, I prefer Blogger to start a new blog, since it's simpler and somewhat more user friendly, if you're not a geek.It's easy to create link lists, if you want them in alphabetical order, and to insert picturesgalore, including links in your sidebar.Blogger is definitely more user friendly for beginners.On the other hand, Wordpress seems to generate more traffic and there seems to be more of acommunity there geared to reading what others actually have to say, instead of just showingoff one's own geekish know-how.I'd say the Wordpress community is a little more writer-oriented, and the Blogger communitymore technology oriented. The raw information is what seems to count more on Blogger,even if that's hard to say in a general way.Wordpress has its own integrated stats system built in. If you want to find out who read your Blogger stuff, you have to see to it yourself. Which seems to reflect the typical Googleattitude behind Blogger, like all those other mega corporations out there, interested inextracting information from and about the user, but how the individual obtains usefulinformation is their own problem. After all, "Use Google!" right?Thanks for that reminder!Drawbacks with Wordpress are that it's generally slower, (although it can also take ages for aBlogger page to open if it has tons of links on it), and that some features are missing or waymore complicated.The solution I've come to if you want the best of both worlds is to publish a copy of your poston Wordpress.Copying and pasting text from your Blogger page will automatically include all the insertedlinks.What I like about Wordpress is the categories section.For that the big plus on Blogger are the sidebar gadgets, that the Wordpress widgets are onlyslowly catching up with.The thing about Blogger as with all of Google is that those guys are so big that the individual becomes irrelevant. Once you're that big you can do no other but think in terms of numbersand growth... the whole thing becomes a machine, not a service anymore.Machines are useful. You can use them to create something, but you can then present your product on a more humane platform, which I consider Wordpress at this point in time.
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