DISQUS

mathewballard · 4 months ago

Is that so true though. Who maintains your sever space? If you do so yourself then you are 100% correct. But, if you don't then what if that company decides they don't want to keep it anymore and just pull the plug without letting you know. Yes, I know that pretty much will never happen, but still.

Shawn Farner · 4 months ago

If my hosting company suddenly folds, I could just go to a new one, restore my WP database and only lose a day or so. I'd still have the same content and would still be at the same URL. In that scenario, at least I wouldn't have to start from scratch.

webalong · 4 months ago

I don't know if you remember PopFly by Microsoft. It was a dev sandbox a la google gadgets. MS, to the best of my knowledge, shut it down and said AMF. Agreed-free is not free, at least it's not free for long. If no ads, you very well could be a number, i.e., a tool to prove value for a prospective buyer.

nicefishfilms · 4 months ago

Perhaps this 'change' will result in us finding a way to share the social-net pie rather than relying on a private co to do the heavy lifting for us. Like your idea of searching for an alternative/ clone that we all contribute to.

Travis B. Hartwell · 4 months ago

Shawn -- good point. It is hard relying on some service -- especially a free one -- to store your content and to be your window on the world. It is nice that we can have self-hosted blogs and be the masters of our content and make sure our interactions get out. This has motivated me to get back to blogging too. So, check me out:

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Travis B. Hartwell
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http://www.travishartwell.net/blog

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orangwutang · 4 months ago

Great post! I am an American lawyer living and working in Vietnam for the past 2 years. I use Friendfeed, Twitter, Facebook, etc., but my main avenue is a blog I write chronicling my experiences in Vietnam and the places I've been since I moved here (Myanmar - where I happened to be when Typhoon Nargis hit, Tibet, etc.). My blog is at www.orangwutang.com, and my Twitter and FF usernames are also both orangwutang.

Thanks for this great idea!

disqusbeta · 4 months ago

wise post, i too felt shaken, i can't have a blog because i haven't got much in my personal life to write at a blogging scale and i don't have any social account the ones i have are anonymous type i don't want to be tracked by people i hate/ i don't like, so i was doing this nibble logging thing at twitter and friendfeed but friendfeed's decision shook me and i even wrote on friendfeed that it would be better to have a P2 blog than going in for facebook( social account, again i don't want to be tracked down) even though i am no celebrity

Damond Nollan · 4 months ago

I agree, nothing lasts forever. One of the lessons I learned as a child, because we moved a lot, is to keep necessary items to a minimum (pack light). Another suggestion is to do what many financial investors do and that is to spread your work over a number of places so in an event of loss, you won't lose everything. One example, I send pictures to my family. Should my house burn down all is not lost.

Thanks for sharing!