January 03, 2002
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Helping Blogger?
Alex Knapp is concerned that by possibly moving away from Blogger I'm not supporting it. My defense against this allegation goes to the heart of Blogger's business model. By simply using it, I don't think I'm giving it much support. I've knocked the ads off all my sites and will continue to pay for it. That's support.
Today, the "blogback" comment script isn't working for the 500th time, slowing down my page horribly even as another instapundit avalanche comes in. And the blogger server was pretty slow for posts last night.
I want Blogger to survive. l continue to keep this site up, and pay for the ads. But I' d like a good-looking, functioning site that loads quickly, and Blogger hasn't felt stable lately.
I think Ev's move here would be to start making deals with ISPs, or even re-selling their services. Most people don't use the web space that comes with their ISP, and Blogger gives them an easy way to do it. If an ISP subscription came with a blogger account (with whatever updates he's planning) fully configured, that would be perceived as value-added from the consumer side. This business model would probably result in Ev selling to AOL and becoming very wealthy. 300,000 subscribers is a real number, even to AOL with 20 million subscribers.
So that could be good for Ev, and would ensure his survival and greater bandwidth....
Posted by Mindles H. Dreck at January 3, 2002 05:47 AM | Technorati inbound links