Inspired by the recent post about "What's your blog?", what blogging platform do you use?<p>We started a (WP hosted on WPengine) blog for our startup at http://blog.octanenation.com/ and there are some behind-the-scenes posts that I would like to write that I don't think would fit well on the 'business' blog, similar to what Patio11 has done.<p>Where do you blog about these things? I'm not crazy about hosting/installing/maintaining a WP installation. Though I'm active on FB it's too closed and not the right 'vibe'.<p>What do you suggest? Tumblr? Blogspot? Wordpress.com? etc?<p>Thanks for all the suggestions!
Don't think of a platform: First think of your goal, then select a platform.<p>If you're a startup and you want a branded official news source then it's hard to beat a WP install on your own domain. Can you use another platform? Sure you can, but don't over think it because you should be working on your product.<p>If you're looking to reach a community, then think about who is the community that you want to reach? Then pick the platform based upon that. Want to meet tech geeks into Android? Well G+ seems to be the place. Want to meet hipsters who love to swap images images? Tumblr seems to be a good place for that. So play on the playground where you want to make some friends.
I use a homemade one (written in PHP) that writes static files to the disk. The fact that I use static files means a post of mine was able to survive ~ 24 hours on the front page of HN even though my website is on a shared host.