<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922152868996696170</id><updated>2012-01-26T13:17:34.871Z</updated><title type='text'>Pulsed</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>kPulsed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17473934611047840144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922152868996696170.post-8140991525898323654</id><published>2012-01-14T01:00:00.002Z</published><updated>2012-01-18T19:05:18.682Z</updated><title type='text'>Blogger vs. Wordpress.com Comparison Chart - 2012</title><summary type='text'>

Blogger and Wordpress.com are the best known free blog hosting services, although the fastest-growing free service is tumblr.com.

Sections on this page:  January 2012.


Advantages / Disadvantages
Blogger Help / WordPress Help




Self-hosted WordPress blogs
WP upgrades vs. self-hosted






Wordpress.com Advertising

Wordpress.com is free because revenue comes from the ads that are quite </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/8140991525898323654'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/8140991525898323654'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogger-wordpress-chart.html' title='Blogger vs. Wordpress.com Comparison Chart - 2012'/><author><name>kPulsed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17473934611047840144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JtcZmajbkQQ/TxCNVNSQaFI/AAAAAAAAAT8/uPMSfr1PLKo/s72-c/01-14-2012_pulsed_chart_a.png' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922152868996696170.post-7682358726240912370</id><published>2011-12-31T23:41:00.000Z</published><updated>2012-01-01T01:25:09.343Z</updated><title type='text'>How many BlogSpot blogs?</title><summary type='text'>How many blogs are there on BlogSpot? Google announced that in August 2009 Blogger officially turned 10 years old. They invited users to send stories about what Blogger meant to them over the past decade:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/blogger-is-turning-10.html

The post includes four "fun facts" about Blogger but gives no indication of the number of active blogs, or even the overall </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/7682358726240912370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/7682358726240912370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-many-blogspot-blogs.html' title='How many BlogSpot blogs?'/><author><name>kPulsed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17473934611047840144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922152868996696170.post-2066462343514226723</id><published>2011-12-07T23:19:00.001Z</published><updated>2011-12-08T23:31:00.311Z</updated><title type='text'>Advertising on Wordpress.com</title><summary type='text'>
In 2006, Wordpress.com began adding advertising to user posts. The announcement said "We're keeping the ads to a bare minimum
... they will always be plain-text so as to not distract from the rest of the page". See the original post:http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/testing-ads/

The revenue from ads is used to fund the WP.com service.

Ads are not shown to logged-in users. Many of them </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/2066462343514226723'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/2066462343514226723'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2011/12/advertising-on-wordpresscom.html' title='Advertising on Wordpress.com'/><author><name>kPulsed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17473934611047840144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922152868996696170.post-4467474217064701550</id><published>2011-08-27T22:19:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-07T16:57:19.424Z</updated><title type='text'>A warning about 'Like' buttons</title><summary type='text'>
WordPress "Like" button responses consist of links added to your posts by readers who have Gravatar profile pages. These links don't have the nofollow attribute. What's more, this feature is enabled on Wordpress.com blogs by default. To opt-out bloggers have to disable "Likes" via a dashboard setting, or when they edit posts.




If there are 90 or more "Likes" a random selection of 90 Gravatar </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/4467474217064701550'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/4467474217064701550'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2011/08/like-button-spam.html' title='A warning about &apos;Like&apos; buttons'/><author><name>kPulsed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17473934611047840144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vDnIG0CoLLw/TlQaGYyke3I/AAAAAAAAAP8/lGGMw5eYosE/s72-c/like_button_profiles.png' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922152868996696170.post-8464413148207348213</id><published>2011-08-26T19:19:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-08-26T19:21:49.983+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Share Buttons Mantra</title><summary type='text'>


More than once a dead link has led me to a "Error 404 - Page not found." notice — adorned with "Share" buttons. Any value derived from social bookmarking is wiped out whenever an organization revamps its site without making sure that old URLs redirect to new pages with the original content.

Adding Share buttonshas become a craze.Do you need them?

Two Scenarios

1) A Facebook member </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/8464413148207348213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/8464413148207348213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2011/08/share-buttons-mantra.html' title='The Share Buttons Mantra'/><author><name>kPulsed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17473934611047840144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JeePitHnAd8/TlQa7EIKQ9I/AAAAAAAAAQM/_67-3uX9oB0/s72-c/share_buttons_lucky.png' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922152868996696170.post-6412402394026707120</id><published>2008-06-09T15:44:00.016+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-30T21:46:10.278Z</updated><title type='text'>The Blogger / Wordpress Debate</title><summary type='text'>
The Blogger vs. Wordpress Comparison Chart describes features at Blogspot.com and Wordpress.com. This is an additional post for an extended debate between users of both blogging platforms.Visitors with Google Accounts can post comments here regardless of whether their favorite system is Blogger or Wordpress.

If you have your own web hosting with PHP/MySQL support, you can download WordPress </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/feeds/6412402394026707120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4922152868996696170&amp;postID=6412402394026707120' title='34 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/6412402394026707120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/6412402394026707120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2008/06/blogger-wordpress-debate.html' title='The Blogger / Wordpress Debate'/><author><name>kPulsed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17473934611047840144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>34</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922152868996696170.post-6055550352669013770</id><published>2008-01-18T18:25:00.011Z</published><updated>2011-10-31T21:59:30.016Z</updated><title type='text'>Blogger static front page</title><summary type='text'>Update:It is no longer possible to create a pseudo-static front page on BlogSpot by assigning a date in the future to a post. In May 2008, Blogger introduced Scheduled Posts. Now, future-dated posts will not be published until the date assigned to them.

WordPress blogs have static pages as a standard feature.One of them can be configured as the front page:

Having a static page at the front of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/6055550352669013770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/6055550352669013770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2008/01/blogger-static-front-page.html' title='Blogger static front page'/><author><name>kPulsed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17473934611047840144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4922152868996696170.post-20778164625933224</id><published>2007-08-21T10:48:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-15T12:33:13.490Z</updated><title type='text'>Blogger Template Tutorial</title><summary type='text'>Blogger has introduced a new collection of easy-to-customize templates (more info). Earlier themes are not available in the new collection, but you can still edit them. This tutorial is for the earlier themes.

Notice: Google's Dynamic Views, introduced in 2011, will override customized Blogger templates unless users set their Blog Feed to 'None' or 'Short'. Dynamic Views depend entirely on </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/20778164625933224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4922152868996696170/posts/default/20778164625933224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://pulsed.blogspot.com/2007/08/blogger-layout-tutorial.html' title='Blogger Template Tutorial'/><author><name>kPulsed</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/17473934611047840144</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_vpNa9KGhveQ/Rsq40XS8poI/AAAAAAAAAA8/SoNKzWXgS7c/s72-c/blogspot_edit_template.png' height='72' width='72'/></entry></feed>
