Comments on: Blogger’s 10th birthday party http://www.wordyard.com/2009/09/02/bloggers-10th-birthday-party/ Technology, politics, culture Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Penmachine words music comment http://www.wordyard.com/2009/09/02/bloggers-10th-birthday-party/comment-page-1/#comment-12218 Penmachine words music comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:28:51 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=2271#comment-12218 <strong>Book Review: Say Everything...</strong> The history the book tells feels right. He doesn't try to find The First Blogger, but he outlines how the threads came together to create the first blogs, and where things went after that. I never found myself thinking, Hey, that's not right! or You ... Book Review: Say Everything…

The history the book tells feels right. He doesn’t try to find The First Blogger, but he outlines how the threads came together to create the first blogs, and where things went after that. I never found myself thinking, Hey, that’s not right! or You …

]]> By: The Chutry Experiment » Thursday Links http://www.wordyard.com/2009/09/02/bloggers-10th-birthday-party/comment-page-1/#comment-12109 The Chutry Experiment » Thursday Links Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:48:09 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=2271#comment-12109 [...] Scott Rosenberg notes that the blog publishing software, Blogger, just turned ten, and offers some interesting numbers [...] [...] Scott Rosenberg notes that the blog publishing software, Blogger, just turned ten, and offers some interesting numbers [...]

]]> By: Derek K. Miller http://www.wordyard.com/2009/09/02/bloggers-10th-birthday-party/comment-page-1/#comment-12095 Derek K. Miller Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:07:10 +0000 http://www.wordyard.com/?p=2271#comment-12095 I'm still running my site with Blogger, using the original model: publishing static files by FTP to my own domain. A lot of that is simply momentum, since I've been running the site that way since 2000, and don't want to re-think my whole URL structure if I move to some other service. But it works, and the advantage is that I have static files on my own web server. I don't need to worry about a database going sideways, and even if Blogger were somehow to go away, my whole site and its entire history would still be there (as long as I pay for my hosting). I’m still running my site with Blogger, using the original model: publishing static files by FTP to my own domain. A lot of that is simply momentum, since I’ve been running the site that way since 2000, and don’t want to re-think my whole URL structure if I move to some other service.

But it works, and the advantage is that I have static files on my own web server. I don’t need to worry about a database going sideways, and even if Blogger were somehow to go away, my whole site and its entire history would still be there (as long as I pay for my hosting).

]]>