Which is better for starters Blogger or Wordpress?

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Which is better for starting a new blog - Blogger or Wordpress ?

Wordpress seems to have more formatting options, you can even use Latex formulas in your posts.

Blogger on the other side has a simpler interface and you can make some money from site traffic.

I would personally go with wordpress simply because of the visual options available to you. I previously used Blogger and found it difficult to give my blog its own personal feel given the UI limitations and Wordpress easily solves this issue. I highly recommend setting up an account on both services so you can mess with the options and settings yourself, everyone has their own preference.

Do you use wordpress.com for webhosting ? I was thinking at buying my own domain and start with a free wordpress.com account. Once I will have a significative number of posts, I can move my blog to a more professional, paid, webhosting solution that offers Wordpress installation.

https://posterous.com/ appears to be the tool of choice for both techie and non people that I know.

I feel both can be used very easily by starters but once you graduate to a professional blogger, wordpress offers you with more(and better) options.

Non Techie - Blogger

Techie - Wordpress

Hacker - Write a blog engine on GitHub and use it.

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