Personalized video blog musings

Real Time Content is my day-job (this blog is my night-job), and so I'm happy to be able to introduce the new blog that I've been working on recently.

Now a blog that writes about personalized video might seem unusual, but the main web-site has plenty of video examples on it, and so the blog is actually like an accompanying newsletter or newspaper - which is what a blog should be!

So, if you want to get an insider's view of personalized video from the experts, you now know the blog to visit...

Eagle-eyed readers might notice that whilst this blog is done in Google's Blogger, the Real Time Content blog is done in Word Press. So a quick comparative review is probably in order, since I've now spent quite a bit of time using both environments. Here's my informed opinion:

• Blogger is quick to throw a site together (with a shallow learning curve), simple to use, and just works. Some scope for customisation, but not very much - which keeps things manageable, avoids over-perfectionism, and delivers finished sites. Adding posts is easy.

• Word Press takes longer to create (and a steeper learning curve) a site, requires a bit more knowledge to use, and requires quite a bit of knowledge to go beyond the basics. There is enormous scope for customisation, in fact, you can customise just about anything to a very fine degree. Perfectionists will love tweaking the look and never quite finishing a site. Adding posts is fairly easy, but you need a some knowledge to exploit all of the power that is provided.

In other words, the two are ideally suited to two very different approaches. Blogger is great for a quick blog, whilst Word Press is perfect for people who like to tweak, improve, adjust, alter...