Blogger Beta to Match Wordpress?

I began to consider moving to wordpress from blogger for two primary reasons. One, I had the idea that setting up auto ping from technorati would be easier on wordpress. Second, my blog will be of the size to benefit from catagories soon and I wanted to get ahead of the curve.

Well, I opened a wordpress free account, but I soon found out that if I wanted to access the feature to add technorati’s auto ping I would have to pay for that priviledge. $25. Now, granted that’s not a lot of money, but why pay to use a free service? Likewise, I would have to pay to do any changing on the template. It seems devious to me to promote a service offering such great features, and then find out that you have to pay for them if you want to use some. I have no doubt that wordpress has many great features to offer, many are probably superior to blogger.

But, blogger is truly free, AND they are constantly improving the competitiveness of their service… for FREE!

In fact my second concern was to add catagories to my blog, and what do you know? Beta is now offering that. So, the only sacrifice I am making is that I will have to manually ping technorati, at least for awhile. Even that may be a non-issue. It may just be my lack of skill and knowledge that is the problem.

But, I said all that to say this. Blogger seems to have the reputation among the nose-in-the-air crowd of so called tech-nerds that it is for beginners. No argument from me on that, as I certainly am a novice and I am having to get in and roll my sleeves up and learn a lot by trial and error. BUT… but, having been in the business world for more years than I care to think about, I do know that even fairly large sized businesses do NOT want to invest large amounts of money to acquire the technical skill necessary to set up and maintain something as simple and add-onish as a blog for their business. Blogger fills this very real need exceptionally, and they do it for free.