IT Media has an interesting comparison of the over 26 different blog services in Japan. A year ago, I’m not sure any of these would have been on the list.
One of the key points that may not be highlighted here is the copyright issue. For some of these hosted blog services, especially the free ones, the writing that you do on your blog often becomes the property of the service provider. That may not be clear but it is a VERY important distinction for obvious reasons.
ITmedia â?™À∂≈BlogÑ«µÑ…∫Ñ…ÏÑ«? ©¸À…? ÿÓÀ∫…
But the service provider advertises on the blog for free in return for the free blog. How can he possibly own what you write? This is very unfair. I wouldn’t use this blog service if I were you…
Cool to see this, Gen.
Btw, there seems to be an issue with this page’s charset: iso-8859-1 is Latin 1 and does not allow Japanese characters to be displayed; UTF-8 is a better choice.
With “Cool to see this”, I meant that it’s nice to see such an overview. The copyright issue on the other hand, is rather scary. Do you have any pointers to such ‘terms of use’?
I second Andreas’ request. As far as I could ascetain, your blog pages are already encoded in UTF-8. Thus, the only glitch that needs to be fixed is the charset declaration in your header’s meta tags:
YOur current iso-8859 declaration misleads the browsers:
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ />
This meta tag might thus be preferable:
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />
Cheers