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Wordpress Blows Up Blogs
Newspapergrl tells the story of a blog gone away at the hands of Wordpress. The moral of the story is that if you use another company to host your blog you’re at their mercy. Everything you write could be gone someday without warning or explanation.
The only way to prevent this is to take matters into your own hands and run your own server. Of course, that too is subject to the whims of nature and man, but you stand a better chance of controlling your own destiny.
But what does this say of the blogging “revolution” if the only ones who really have a free voice are the ones who have the skills to run a server or pay to have someone run it for them?
Posted by windley on September 17, 2007 9:41 PM
Comment from Andrew Petro at September 18, 2007 7:21 AM
It says that the revolution is about "free as in freedom" and not "free as in gratis" -- that in this, like in everything else, there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. The revolution is not a handout. It is an opportunity.
"Customers pay." If one considers oneself a customer of, rather than an active contributor to and participant in, an organization, one can expect to need to be compensating that organization for some of the value received.
http://phillyemergingtech.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html
In order to consume blogging services, one can expect to self-host, pay for hosting, actively contribute to shared blog posting, contribute to shared blog hosting by paying for it, or yes, be at the whims of a zero-price host with other values.
Perhaps, "Individuals get the IT they deserve."
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