Blogger / Blogspot is a far better blogging platform for most people than Wordpress

I've had some experience with both blogging platforms as well as Mambo/Joomla and Drupal so I am looking forward to an informed debate. Let me proceed with analyzing Con's arguments. 1. "Although blogger may have many more gadgets and what not; wordpress has an older system with many more updates that can be toggled in settings. " I do not know who has more widgets or plugins, but I will accept Con's concession that Blogger does. In terms of Wordpress having a more complex / mature interface, I also agree with that assessment. However, in my experience, although apparently simpler and easier to work with, Blogger's interface is far more powerful. Though you can edit the code of only one file (the Blogger "template" or "layout"), that contains everything one needs and is a paradigm easier to understand and administer than multiple files. In terms of switches or a graphical interface, Blogger's can hold its own any day against Wordpress. Though not as good looking and "skinable", one can easily change features and move widgets around in the "Page Layout", which is something that is far more difficult to accomplish in Wordpress. A newer improvement called "Template Designer" allows column and page widths to be change from a mouse slider - again, Wordpress seems to have relinquished its leadership position. 2. "Recent studies show that over 260million people visit wordpress blogs daily. Studies have also shown that on 50million are entertained by blogspot. com. " Without a link, it is very difficult to verify this claim in the limited time I had at my disposal. A quick Google search sent me to an article claiming that migrating a blog from Wordpress to Blogger is very easy and will retain PR ( . http://goo.gl... ). I also found an article claiming that Blogger managed to attract far more publishers than Wordpress, which would lend significant support to my contention that Blogger is a better platform. 3. "wordpress also has a more stable and safer blog server than any other blogger in history. " This is simply not true. Blogger does not have ANY security problems. Wordpress self-hosted is constantly under attack, and most such attacks are successful. There is also the headache of constant upgrading. If referring to Wordpress. com, I'm afraid that Blogger is also slightly better in terms of avoiding downtime. 4. " if i am going to blog for free, why not blog on the best" Herein lies the problem. Compared to Blogger, Wordpress. com is severely limited in terms of the freedom given to its users. On Wordpress. com you cannot run ads, you are limited in terms of javascript (no such limit exists on Blogger), and the template designer allows a degree of customization of the look of your blog that Wordpress users can only dream of. It seems that Con is not aware of the many improvements Blogger has introduced only in the last year, when they realized that had fallen far behind the standard which, back then, was espoused by might Wordpress. Here they are: * New Template Designer (change the number of columns and their width on the fly for all new templates) * Spam Comment Filtering (like Akismet, but better b/c of larger base for statistical analysis) * Built-in Blog Stats (Wordpress had it for a long time, but whose is Analytics? ) :) * Improved Post Editor * Static Pages * Jump Breaks (read more) * Background Image Uploads * Accurate Post Previews * Photo Captions * More Default Templates . http://buzz.blogger.com... . http://royal.pingdom.com...