Some friends asked me why I kept more than one blog accounts for the same contents. I just saw Jerry's Blog with similar questions to himself, so I decided to make a comment to him and create a new post to share my thoughts with everyone - I can be wrong, but here are my opinions:
Blogger is the best (and I started in 2003) because it gives you lots of "freedom", as long as you know how to write a webpage (HTML, CSS, JS, etc.), you have 100% control of what is showing on your site. However, the downside is blogger has less traffic for Chinese - it's blocked by the Mainland. If you write in Chinese (like I do), you don't have many audience.
MSN Space sucks (Microsoft just doesn't know how to make things work right, including their core product like Windows), but it alerts your friends via MSN Messenger as soon as your space is updated. This is the only useful feature. I don't update my MSN Space directly. I use my Blogger to sync MSN Space via email-publishing.
Yahoo is definitely sucking dust as they're running behind - Haven't see any nice feature about Yahoo 360.
Opera is a not bad. People in China can visit these blogs and it brings lots of traffic. The downside is Opera does NOT support HTML4.0 by default. So if you write a link like using " href", it does NOT work ALL the time. You just have to manually make corrections using "[URL=http://...]...[/URL]". However, two things I really like about Opera is
1) It can import Blogger posts - It was important for me as I'm a Blogger user, and I need this feature to setup my Opera account without losing my old posts. I'm sure the Opera team made this feature in mind to compete with Blogger and to attract Blogger users.
2) It can be visited by the people in Mainland China, and its server is OUTSIDE of mainland - stable and fast.
Now, Bokee is a little weird. It's nice as it combines lots of great features. But they are three catches:
1) Bokee's server is in China - Too damn slow for me who live in the US.
2) (I think) Bokee does not bring lots of traffic to your blog if you don't do a good job of writting porn stories or publising a blog every 30secs as there are too many users competing.
3) I recently tried to setup a Bokee account, but I realized later that I couldn't publish a blog. I tried to use both FireFox and IE, but the page had some problems - I suspect my IP was "blocked" by the Chinese government since I'm from the US. Maybe they don't want people from the West to register and publish something "unpeaceful" - This is to be verified by others, of course.
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