Er...what "death of Blogger"?

heh. Um, my uh, link seems to be, um, missing.

Blogger sucks. I've moved Slublog to its own domain and have started using Movable Type.

http://www.slublog.com

OK, so the "death of Blogger" just means people think it sucks and are switching away from it? I guess I'd call that more the "mass eschewing of Blogger". I thought maybe I'd missed some bombshell news that Blogger was going out of business.

To be honest, I'm not sure what's going on with blogger. I haven't kept up. But I get the feeling they're going to pull the plug at some point.

Not my blog, but I noticed you still have Tim Blair's old site. It's now:

http://timblair.net/

OK, so the "death of Blogger" DOESN'T mean that people just don't like it anymore. It means that there are rumors that it is going to go under sometime in the near future.

Wow, that would really suck. There are still a lot of blogs -- and a lot of good ones -- on Blogger. I'd have to think the majority of those would just vanish, as many people aren't inclined to get their own domain or switch to something else. Not to mention all the archives that would vanish into the ether.

It's not so much that my link's wrong, just that it's two links all smashed together, which of course takes you to 404Ville...

Blogger will officially pull the plug when they:

1) realize my crappy blog exists on their servers;
2) read my crappy blog after realizing it exists and
3) understand that my crappy blog's presence means they have officially jumped the shark as a hosting service.

Let's be honest...who could blame them?

Jack "Ted McGinley" M.

Thanks. Keep the corrections coming. I promise to fix soonish.

I'd be VERY surprised if Google pulled the plug on Blogger, as that would earn them an incredible amount of ill will.

Does anyone have a link to stories about this? Or wild speculation about this? I'm just curious about what the basis for this is.

How about replacing my invisible URL with http://bamapachyderm.com? 'Cause I hate being "the missing link". [insert cheesy grin here]

Yeah, I'm link-whoring but this IS the link-whoring thread, isn't it?

I think you're allowed to be in stupid-goofy moods. Heck, that's my "blog mood" 90 percent of the time.

If you're feeling that goofy, come over to my blog and help me smack down some Slate readers. They're still all fired up over the Schaivo post...

Ace- I notice a renewed spirit of Anka jokes ever since we posted (and you linkled) "In Defense of Anka." Or maybe that's just my CavalryChargentric view of the universe.

In any event, keep it up. That's what people of substance do.

"death of blogger" ?

You know, it is April 1, folks.

While you're cleaning up, Aaron's Rantblog is now BACK at http://aaron.cc (as Aaron's cc:).

Imminent death of blogger predicted. Film at 11.

http://unabrewer.com/