As I “mentioned earlier”:https://blog.org/archives/cat_weblogs.html#000766, the people behind Moveable Type (and many of the other competitors to Blogger) are failing to offer real choice to the low-end weblogger because they lack a free hosted option. Now Blogger has upped the ante by dropping the remaining fees that were charged to Blogger Pro users and making those features available to all Blogger users. I’m guessing it’s gearing up to face the competition from “AOL”:https://blog.org/archives/cat_weblogs.html#000813.
It must be said that the “additional features”:http://new.blogger.com/feature_giveaway/announcement.pyra offered in Blogger Pro are nothing to write home about and MT (which powers this weblog) still leaves Blogger well behind in the features race…
I don’t think so. I was an early user of blogspot, and now have become a charter user of typepad (hosted by the people who created Movable Type). The $4.95 fee that TypePad charges at the entry level will be saved by even a minimum-wage worker on Day 1. In the long run, the difference will be much greater — you can spend your time posting to a full-featured, good looking blog, rather than hacking HTML and trying to resuscitate your archives.
Comment by Marty — 11 September 2003 @ 10:21 pm