Adventures in MySpace : The Revolution will be Blogged
I know a few things about blogging. I've run blogs, commented on blogs, marketed with blogs and well, blogged. I read a lot of blogs, but I don't think I've ever seen anyone in the blogosphere point to a MySpace blog and say 'look at this'
Maybe I'm hanging out with the wrong crowd. After all, my page has a space for blog entries and I'm going to fill it in...
OK, so the actual blogging interface is fairly straightforward. There's a wysiwyg editor (and an option to view the source) I've got a few gripes about this. Even though MySpace think I'm in New York, and I told the software I'm in the UK it's offered my a west coast timezone as the default. Maybe that's where the servers are.
There's no option to do things like setup track backs or publish an RSS feed. This is, in essence an online diary where people can leave comments. It's miles behind the tool I'm writing this on (Moveable Type).
What's worse is that my blog hasn't picked up on my heavily pimped homepage (hardly surprising when you think about how that was done). On the other hand it does have an interface where I can chop and change how it looks with pointing, clicking and learning how to specify colours in hex
It seems like whatever MySpace has got going for it - it's not the blogging.