Todd Lyden

Image via Wikipedia Well this wasn't how I was going to do this, but what the heck. I was ready to bag on Posterous a while back, but after I made the decision to move my "social media" stuff exclusively over to www.socialmediawannabe.com  (go ahead you can check out the goodies there) I was contemplating my next move for toddlyden.com. I learned the entire structure of hosting and the domain were farked up and back tonight so I jumped shipped over to Blogger. Why? 1. I was able to move the entirety of the old blog over with so little hassle it wasn't even funny. Posterous keeps pushing people to move their blogs to them and they would LOVE to have you, but I had almost ZERO time and effort in shifting the old posts over to the new host. 2. Blogger is CHEAP. Oh, yeah- it's FREE. Well so is Posterous, but dang they were killing me. I love FREE but it should be as reliable as possible and I already had experience with a lovely time over here at Blogspot . ...

So I found this infographic just fascinating. These were the stats from 2009 according to Problogger. Of course, self-hosted Wordpress is growing like a well-water lawn. The best part is the click through to see that while Wordpress.org is growing by leaps and bounds, Wordpress.com declined since 2007.  Even more astonishing is that Blogger GREW! I love Blogspot myself and have done several sites using the platform. Of course, I'm using Posterous right now because I wanted to give it fair shot.  I am REALLY contemplating bagging this platform. I like it, but it does not offer enough toys to work with and is expressly hard to customize.  Thoughts? What about Tumblr? Think it will expand and what happens with the news about Typepad and Moveable Type ?