Blogger sucks less

Weell, so much for our test drive of Greatest Journal. When I read about it, I got the impression it was a serious blogging tool. In reality, it's a cross between a teen "Are You Hot?" and "My So-Called Life." Not that there's anything wrong with that (kiss my fat Irish arse, Jerry). Looks like I will be using Blogger as my primary blog until something better comes along, with Greatest Journal as backup. Blogger is the best looking, followed by Tripod. Greatest Journal, like most open source projects, looks slapped together compared to Blogger. Blogger has more opportunities to monetize this little community of readers (Google AdSense, PayPal). The problem with Blogger that Greatest Journal doesn't have is that it is slow to impossible to load at times. It's hard to tell whether this is a problem with the VCU network, the Internet, or Blogger. With Greatest Journal, it's relatively easy to get photos added to posts whereas Blogger involves intermediate programs which don't always work.