What’s In A Blog?

There are a lot of questions regarding blogging in the adult entertainment field, many people wonder if blogging is worth the effort or time? Well, it depends on the purpose, the goal and if it used properly. This series will talk about blogs.

If you are just delving into the world of blogs, or just want a better understand of blogs and their evolution since they began in 1997, please click here.

There are a lot of applications out there that allow you to bring your presence into the Blogosphere, which one is best to use? Well, that up to you, use whatever you like, but there are pros and cons to each one.

#1: Blogger

Blogger is simple blogging engine owned by Google. It was one of the earliest and it is free to create an account. It offers users simple themes (designs) and it’s part of Google, major benefits for being search engine friendly. But, it’s a closed-sourced (no adding plug-ins and nifty fun stuff) and it has Google adverts all over it. Adult Entertainment Friendly: NO. I don’t want ads on my blog unless I choose, it’s like having a free website, not professional. And on top of that, the Google system has flaws in “relevant” ad content.

#2: Yahoo 360

Yahoo 360 has tons of features to make it one of the more nifty, spiffy engines. As it’s a social tool, you can integrate your news, Flickr and all your Yahooite things. But if your main point is blogging, then pass, there are better solutions. Adult Entertainment Friendly: NO. I have my issues with Yahoo. They are tough on adult content, if someone is reported for using their yahoo email for adult purposes, Yahoo will ban it without notice and you lose the content. If you have a group that is reported by numerous people, they will ban that too. Flickr, something that is hella nifty (even more so than Picasaweb), is Yahoo’s coo, but we plenty of alternatives too.

#3: Six Apart (including TypePad, MoveableType, Vox & Live Journal)

Six Apart has developed several blogging engines, for professionals and daily writer. They have extremely popular and have set many of the standards for blogging. While some of the free services are limited, you can pay some $$$ to expand the capabilities. LiveJournal has about 20 million active accounts and 18,000 posts per hour. Adult Entertainment Friendly: Yes, but there are options I like more.

#4: Expression Engine

Expression Engine is a nice web publishing engine. It’s has a beautiful, well-documented CMS - Content Management System. It also lots of features and modules. Adult Entertainment Friendly: Yes, but lacks themes, plugins and users. You really have to know what you are doing.

#5: Drupal

Drupal is not really meant for someone’s who main goal is blogging. Drupal is actually a content management system with an amazing strong architecture and a huge user community. Drupal modules allow e-commerce, photo gallery, CVS integration and a mailing list manager that actually break down into user groups and target emails (hello!). The Administration panel is not for beginners. Adult Entertainment Friendly: Yes, especially if you run pay sites with blogs, want to break down your subscribers based on viewing patterns and customize marketing promotions. There is a mores simple version in case you have to have it - CivicSpace.

#6: Wordpress

Wordpress is and should be the industry standard for adult entertainment blogging and site development. Aside from Drupal, it gets me hot and bothered. It is easy and can take even the most novice of web users and make time web-savvy blogpenuers. Wordpress is feature rich, well structured and has the largest user base of any blog system out there. It is an open source community so if feature can’t be found, you can find a plug-in for it. My favorite: making two plug-ins work together. Oh, it’s better than your vibrator. Wordpress also supports unlimited catagories and subcategories, it has automatic syndication, can handle massive email posting, has thousands of themes, you can integrate most other blogs into it (Blogger anybody?), is easy to administer, is multi-lingual (I can convert a site from English to French) and makes publishing seamless. “Look ma! I have a blog!” Adult Entertainment Friendly: It’s not just friendly, its the standard. And to boot, SEO is much easier with all the fantastic plug-in options.

#7: EscortBlogs.net

For those that just don’t want to go there, and wan to be a part of a community - especially if you are an escort or sex worker, well - we have our own little place to go. EscortBlogs.net allows a simple, nicely design blog communities for sex workers and adult entertainers. It gives you a national presence a great way to get your ideas out. the Only draw back, no HTML, just text writing and links.

2 Responses to “What’s In A Blog?”

1. Amber Says:
   May 11th, 2008 at 4:07 am

   Ack! How do we subscribe to your feed?

2. Callie Says:
   May 12th, 2008 at 4:52 pm

   I will fix it!

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