Blog for me (Feed for you)

Every time I started a post about blogs, I start thinking about feeds.  I can't seem to get the two to function seperately in my head.  Here's the best compromise that I've been able to come up with.

 It seems to me that your choice of which blog product to use is much more important to whoever is doing the actual blogging than it is to your users.  One of the articles (forgive me, I've forgotten which) stated that having a "blogspot.com" or "typepad.com" address on your blog in the near future would be like having a Geocities page today.  I can certainly see where that makes sense--I certainly can't see any of the professors at work, for example, taking a geocities address in a bibliography.  But then...I got distracted by the idea of feeds again.  In the case of the types of library blogs that we're all talking about, it seems to me that people will either find it through a trusted link (off the library site) or it will become available to them through a feed (either their own personal feed reader or else a feed tucked onto the library's main site).  

 So here I am back at the conclusion that most users aren't going to care what you choose--but your bloggers really are, especially if you're trying to spread the blogging joy and have many people contributing.  Things that seem like small potatoes when you're all excited to be starting a blog end up being big problems when little bumps prevent people from posting.  For example, in blogger, your blog is at whatever.blogspot.com, but in order to edit, you need to remember to go to www.blogger.com.  A big deal? No.  But if this is going to become part of people's regular routines, why add complications?  We have an internal communications blog which has pretty much withered on the vine because of this.  After doing some poking around in the other blogging platforms, I think that our problems could be solved just by changing hosts.