Thad Westhusing

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Recommendation on blog service

Hey Joe, congrats on starting your wine blog. I will add you to my list of wine blogs I read regularly.

I was wondering if you could recommend 1 or 2 blog services that would be most useful in getting my own wine blog started.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Thad

Mar 10, 2005, 08:13AM PST


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Joe McCarthy

Vinography, Professor Bainbridge, Hugh Johnson

Hi Thad,

I’ve linked to some other wine blogs in my opening post: http://gumption.typepad.com/wine/2005/03/hello_wine_worl.html.

My favorite wine site is not a blog: Wine Lover’s Page (http://www.wine-lovers-page.com/).

Please let me know when you accomplish your goal of starting a wine blog. I’m reminded of Guy Kawasaki’s comment in the opening of his book “Art of the Start”: “doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship”. Starting a blog is a small act of entrepreneurship (in my judgment), and I encourage you to “just do it”!

Joe.

Mar 10, 2005, 09:19AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

Thad Westhusing

Thanks Joe for the additional site recommendations.

I was actually asking which blogging service you would recommend. I noticed you use Typepad, but was curious if you could recommend other services to consider.

I appreciate it!

Mar 10, 2005, 03:24PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

Joe McCarthy

Oops

[One of my other goals is to “be mindful” - note that this one is not marked as “accomplished” yet :/]

I also considered Blogger and LiveJournal, both of which have free versions. At the time, I felt that TypePad had more features I would want (including moblogging … which I didn’t end up using all that much), and a more professional look & feel than either of the others. After a year, I’m happy with TypePad and have no intention to switch to a different service.

This probably isn’t all that much more helpful than my earlier reply, but at least it’s more on-topic :-).

Joe.

Mar 10, 2005, 09:46PM PST | Respond to this

BigDave64

How about 'whine about blogs' instead?

There’s too many out there already, don’t you think?

Mar 31, 2005, 02:51PM PST | Respond to this

Antonow

typepad

Typepad is easy, well built, and if you want to do more advanced things in the future, it’s there for you. I started a wine blog with a friend, which gets updated far less often than we drink. http://www.winesublime.com/

Apr 01, 2005, 08:22PM PST | Respond to this

enquirer

blog au vin

This is a new blog set up as part of a wine site. You can reach the blog at http://blogauvin.finewinepress.com

You can register and set up your own blog-no need to configure any new service. No need to pay. It’s free.

Take a look

Jul 01, 2005, 12:40AM PDT | Respond to this


 

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