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Half the Weblogs I've looked at today have comments about how frustrated the creators were, unable to post because Blogger was down; or relieved that it wasn't just them; or that people should be grateful to the guy who maintains it all by himself, for free, instead of complaining that he didn't solve it sooner.
That's a lot of people frustrated by one piece of software.
I didn't know about the outage until it was over, and people started discussing it: The main tools I use to maintain my Weblog are the vi editor, various cut-and-paste commands on SunOS and Windows, and ftp. None of them is sophisticated, and yes, something like the client I use for this journal would be simpler. But I can count on them: if any of my machines are up, I can browse, find links, and use vi or Notepad or the like to update the log, then ftp it over.
Don't get this wrong: I'm glad there are things like LiveJournal and Blogger, making all this easier, encouraging people to write and post and not spend their time worrying about arcane editor commands at the expense of what they want to say.
The problem is that there aren't enough of them: too many people using the same few sites, with no convenient fallback. I have no plans to create an alternative--but if you have a text editor you're comfortable with, and an ISP that supplies Web space, you have what you need for this. It's not about the pretty layout LiveJournal will drop in (complete with sometimes-inaccurate dates, because I don't always remember to change the posting time to reflect my time zone), or even the links to friends, though I do like those. It's about the work. The writing, or the photos, or the collections of interesting pointers. Use Blogger. Use vi. Write your poems in pencil on scrap paper. But do it.
That's a lot of people frustrated by one piece of software.
I didn't know about the outage until it was over, and people started discussing it: The main tools I use to maintain my Weblog are the vi editor, various cut-and-paste commands on SunOS and Windows, and ftp. None of them is sophisticated, and yes, something like the client I use for this journal would be simpler. But I can count on them: if any of my machines are up, I can browse, find links, and use vi or Notepad or the like to update the log, then ftp it over.
Don't get this wrong: I'm glad there are things like LiveJournal and Blogger, making all this easier, encouraging people to write and post and not spend their time worrying about arcane editor commands at the expense of what they want to say.
The problem is that there aren't enough of them: too many people using the same few sites, with no convenient fallback. I have no plans to create an alternative--but if you have a text editor you're comfortable with, and an ISP that supplies Web space, you have what you need for this. It's not about the pretty layout LiveJournal will drop in (complete with sometimes-inaccurate dates, because I don't always remember to change the posting time to reflect my time zone), or even the links to friends, though I do like those. It's about the work. The writing, or the photos, or the collections of interesting pointers. Use Blogger. Use vi. Write your poems in pencil on scrap paper. But do it.
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thats whats so great about livejournal being opensourced, soon a lot of sites will be able to pop up and have online journaling.