My first tryst with blogging started around 2003-2004 when
I was a student in Hyderabad.Back then, the only blogging tool which I knew was
blogger.com .This was due to the varied services which a single Google id would
give . To be frank I had no idea what a blog was all about . My daily dose of
news from The Hindu was one the reasons behind my blogging début.
One fine afternoon in 2005, I went
to a cybercafé along with a friend and opened a blogger account. What I wrote online
on that day must be crap by blogging standards. But I was young and was
not matured enough to understand what a blog would really mean to the readers.
Fast forward to 2008 - this was when I delved into the world of blogging in a
serious way. Word Press has been a great publishing platform for my
blog . In the 3 years I used it - I liked the very first theme which was
automatically selected. Nice clean design and features like word
proofing kept me glued to Word Press for some time. But as time
progressed and the hit rate increased a lot about certain articles in the blog,
I was very keen to learn about reader information. Since some articles like the
Ogilvy Internship and Ubuntu experience on the IdeaPad netbook were among the
highest traffic sources.
In the meantime I also realized that widget support in
Wordpress.com was pathetic. Since I would expect most of them to have real
time information and this in turn would mean support for java script ,I
was wondering if other platforms should have been adapted in order to
incorporate live content of mine. For example, I’ve been using paper.li to
aggregate news information about my favorite stuff on the internet
and share it with my friends on twitter. Wordpress.com would not support their
respective widget.
For ages I have tried to use an
alternative HTML tracking based metrics service - since Google Analytics was also not supported.
For me using a a single open web id to access all of my content on the
web was an easy way of managing all of my social platforms
Unfortunately Word Press would not
provide an in depth analytics platform to deal with metrics and outreach
and this lead me to evaluate and use certain third party tools . Going up was
the only which I found. But this would not give me the rich dashboard and intuitive UI as analytics
would do so I seriously began to think about jumping the ship to Blogger. Keen
to check what blogger was providing I signed into the service after a very
long time and much to my surprise the whole thing had changed a lot. There
were more options for customized layouts and the new Dynamic appearance layout
was definitely a stealer. All of these factors combined, I brought a page redirect option and embraced Blogger again .This is where I began
my journey here and this is where it would continue forever!
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