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 Friday, November 24, 2006
started 11/24/2006; 11:51:40 AM - last post 11/26/2006; 12:57:07 AM
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Doc Searls - Friday, November 24, 2006 
11/24/2006; 3:51:40 PM (reads: 9599, responses: 1)
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The Grate of a Thankful Nation 
| | Vaspers the Grate sends appreciative Grate-itude to pioneer bloggers, and provides in the same post a Blog History Timeline. In that line I'm credited with showing up in 1997. That's two years early. So I tried to post a comment on his blog, but that failed in both preview and post modes, so I decided to post it here: |
| | Hey, I'm (Vaspers the) Grateful for you too! |
| | For what it's worth, I did not blog, as a blogger, on actual blogware, until Fall of 1999. And Dave Winer gets all the credit for making that happen. And I get much of the credit for dragging my ass for months before that, so blogging failed to make it into The Cluetrain Manifesto, which it should have. (We wrote the book in Summer of 1999.) |
| | Also for what it's worth, many online writers were doing something like blogging long before blogging came along. Dave's DaveNet went out to a mailing list -- and up on the Web as well -- beginning in the Early 90s. My own online essays in Reality 2.0 go back to '92, with Time to Grow Up. (Although other essays there go back as far as 1986.) |
| | Anyway, thanks to other bloggers (you for instance), it's never stopped being a fun ride. |
| | I see Vaspers also been having trouble with Blogger, his blog publishing platform. He's not alone. |
| | So here's my question for the day. Why has Google improved Blogger so little since it bought the platform from Pyra in early 2003. In blog years, 2003 is somewhere back in the Triassic. Consider all the work Google has done with its mail and office services, with maps, with Google Earth... and so little to integrate any of those with Blogger. Why? |
| | (Unless I have that wrong. Do I? You tell me. I'm not a Blogger user, except as a frustrated poster of comments. But I am an observer, and from this angle I've seen remarkably few improvements, considering, over the years.) |
| | I suggest for Christmas that Blogger users give Google positive and useful suggestions for making Blogger a leading blogging platform, for integrating it better with the rest of the Web, and for making it add to Google's otherwise well-deserved reputation as a builder of ground-breaking apps and services. |
| | My own first suggestion is to open-source Blogger's code and bring back "pro" accounts to make Blogger a paid service. The charge doesn't need to be much — maybe $25 or $35 a year. Like what TypePad charges. Or Flickr. But enough to turn users into customers and to have a real market relationship with its most serious bloggers — and not just with advertisers, which is what Google has now. |
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Peter Fleck - Blogger Improvements
11/26/2006; 4:57:07 AM (reads: 915, responses: 0)
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