Blogger (website)
| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Blogger, Blogspot |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Pyra Labs (developer) Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (founders) |
| Dates: | August 23, 1999[1] – present |
| Type: | blog host |
| Fandom: | N/A |
| URL: | https://www.blogspot.com/ |
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Blogger is a blog hosting service. It is one of many blogging services used by fans, although it proved to be less popular than alternatives time decade such as Geocities or journals as LiveJournal. A user can have up to 100 blogs or websites per account[2] thus expanding the varied experience of platform users. Other advantage of Blogger is its easy integration into personal fansites
History
Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed through a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be accessed from a user-owned custom domain (such as www.example.com) by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers.[1][3][4]
From Blogspot.com in 2000:[5]
Whatspot?BlogSpot is a free hosting service for Blogger™-powered blogs.
Blogger is the easy (non-tedious!) way to update your home page. Keeping a journal, what's new page, weblog, project page, or any other type of frequently updated web page with Blogger is as easy as typing in a form.
Blogger will publish to any web site, but if you don't already have one, BlogSpot makes it quick and easy to get started (and did we mention it's free?). Just fill in the form on the left. No really, do it!
If you'd like to get started using Blog*Spot, and want to see an in-depth overview on how to sign up and use it, see our visual tutorial.
If you'd like to see what other Blog*Spot blogs look like, take a look at the directory.[5]
Blogspot vs. LiveJournal
In a 2012 Fan Fiction Oral History Project interview, Via Ostiense discussed the differences between Blogspot and LiveJournal circa 2002:
LiveJournal was much easier to set up. It was visually more pleasing because most of the formats, I think, were at least two thirds of the screen were text, whereas Blogger, I think, has pretty much always been—the text is in a fairly narrow column, like a third or a quarter of the width of the page. And I am a fan of more words wherever possible. And other things were that—threaded comments; threaded comments on LJ were a really big thing, and being able to follow people on my—through my friends list, instead of having to—I don't know if there were RSS readers back then or not—but following people through—. I never actually found anyone who I really wanted to read on Blogspot. Like I had one, and my high school friends had them, and some people had Xangas, but ... It wasn't ... LiveJournal's—the friends list made it easier to just see everyone's updates and sort of get a feel—feel more in the loop, and feel more connected to people when their updates were posting constantly to the friends page. And I also really liked the field where you could put in what music you were listening to. I have no idea why, but it was a thing.
Example Fan Blogs
- FictionAlley news (2007-2018)
- The Fandom Gives Back (2009-2015)
- The Twilight Awards (2010)
- A Million Contradictions (2001-2011)
- Animal Jam Archives (2011-2017)
See Also
References
- ^ a b "The Story of Blogger". Blogger.com. October 8, 2003. Archived from the original on April 19, 2010. Retrieved December 25, 2011.
- ^ "the limits on my Blogger account". Archived from the original on January 8, 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
- ^ "Set up a custom domain - Blogger Help". support.google.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2018.
- ^ "Custom domains for your blog made easy". buzz.blogger.com. Archived from the original on January 18, 2015. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
- ^ a b "blog*spot". Archived from the original on 2000-10-18.