Thousands of Blogs Fall Silent
I don't have a lot of sympathy for those affected by the recent Blogocide over at Weblogs.com: Thousands of Blogs Fall Silent
As in all cases, you get what you pay for - Weblogs (like Blogger) is a free service... everyone knew this going into it. Sure, it would have been nice if Winer had given some notice and made arrangements for people to have access to their archives - but if he wants to shut the server down, then fair play to him. It's not his fault that you didn't have a backup routine in place. If your blog contents were that precious to you, you had a personal obligation to ensure that you had archives stored in a safe location.
Not that I'm particularly defending Dave Winer, but in this case he had every right to do what he did, regardless of the reasons.
As in all cases, you get what you pay for - Weblogs (like Blogger) is a free service... everyone knew this going into it. Sure, it would have been nice if Winer had given some notice and made arrangements for people to have access to their archives - but if he wants to shut the server down, then fair play to him. It's not his fault that you didn't have a backup routine in place. If your blog contents were that precious to you, you had a personal obligation to ensure that you had archives stored in a safe location.
Not that I'm particularly defending Dave Winer, but in this case he had every right to do what he did, regardless of the reasons.
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