It’s been a while. Basically, I go through phases where I don’t know which blog to keep, so I don’t keep any of them.
Traditionally, I used LiveJournal. It’s not only Free Software, but it’s more less been the choice amongst my kinda people. I starting moving away from it when it was acquired by Six Apart (same kids that run Vox). My primary fear was that LiveJournal would be slowly phased out or put on the backburner.
I’ve never really used Blogger. The only reason I would is because it’s attached to my Google account. It’s convenient to have the stuff all bundled up. But honestly, Blogger looks pretty crappy these days compared to the newer blogging sites.
I jumped onboard Vox because I basically like trying out new Web 2.0 sites and services. Vox has really succeeded in pulling in a more mature audience. It’s not uncommon to encounter a competent individual’s blog on Vox. And actually, I’d speculate that the average age on Vox is probably a bit higher than elsewhere. Vox has really done well in combining blogging and social networking as I’ve met more people on Vox than other blogging sites.
Lately, I checked out WordPress. I’ve known about the software a while, I just recently set up an account though. It has nice themes and it’s Free Software. One thing I really like is the export feature that allows one to save their blog locally to a file on disk. It’s nice insurance incase the site changes or goes away.
I’m leaning towards cross-posting on Vox and WordPress. This way, I’d maintain contact on Vox, but I’d have everything backed up on WordPress too.