The Reasons for my Defection

Don't get me wrong. I think WordPress.com is GREAT and the work that is being done by the WordPress.com community is admirable and benefit to humanity in general! But, unfortunately, I've defected and gone to Blogger - principally because Blogger lets you embed Google AdSense ads, and lets you run JavaScript in the side bar - that's it. Other than that, I think Blogger is an inferior Blogging tool. There's no statistics on Blogger (although I am using Google Analytics - but that's a different story), and the template choice is pretty limited (granted you can customize colors, and such, to a much greater extent than WordPress).

WordPress.com is right to be paranoid. After all, they can't waste their precious time and resources fighting threats that arise from letting naive or malicious users embed JavaScript in their blogs - unlike Google which has billions of dollars and probably has staff that does nothing but fight security threats on Blogger. So, I can't fault them for that, but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.

And yes, I know I can download the WordPress code, host is somewhere, and tweak it to my little heart's content. But I've been there and done that, and I simply don't want to have to maintain the code and perform upgrades. That's the main reason I went to WordPress.com in the first place - they're doing all that kind of work for me.

So, on to Blogger I go. Goodbye WordPress, it's been fun...