Undecided
7/26/2004
I'm not sure I want to move to the blogger format.
Sure, it's easier than what I'm used to. But it isn't open-source. It's owned by Google, I believe, which makes it somewhat cool but passe - now that Google is just another big Company and no longer an interesting technological achievement. I do appreciate their continuing R&D, but the day they allowed adverts to penetrate the search results, I knew the day of their reckoning was at hand, and the whole 'coolness' factor was soon to fade away.
However, I'm a little fickle when it comes to using technology to achieve an end. I enjoy the ease of use of blogger, but the open-source ideology of other, possibly better journal technologies.
I suppose it doesn't really matter. In the end, blogging will fade away like the BBS system faded away. Email is giving way to messaging; dynamic forums have replaced bbs and chat, and I don't have time for anything else anyhow. I'm an artist, not a net junkie (though I spend perhaps more time on the web than everyone I know).
Before I go, I urge everyone to listen to the Over The Edge show, "Free Culture (Part 1)." It's the best one in awhile, and it will make you think. Check it out here:
http://matrix.csustan.edu/Negativ/
Thus we have reached the end of my first blogger post.
Cheers,
Bruce
posted by novachild @ Monday, July 26, 2004,
1 Comments:
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At 1:21 PM,
:: miss m :: said...
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I've been using blogger for many years now. It's actually much more stable now that google owns it. (More money for more servers and such.) I like it and I don't. The ease is one of the major likes. Post an entry from anywhere one, two three.
They've added a lot of features lately that help like uploading a file or image and such but they sometimes get too caught up in easy to use (like the formatting stuff now).
It works though. And gets the job done.
