Remember how I wrote a blog about forming attachments to things? And how bad you feel when you lose or break those things?
One thing you can get too attached to is your own blog. Why am I thinking about this? Because Harmaceutical wrote a blog today about the many rumors that have been swirling about the possible demise of 360 blogging. I heard these rumors months and months ago. I was visiting one of Yahoo 360's "support" pages/blogs back when I was complaining endlessly about the fact that spammers had taken over a Yahoo Group I belong to (absolutely no help was ever received by the way). Back then, I would check the comments on those blogs and people kept asking Yahoo "What's the story with Yahoo 360 still being Beta?", "Are you shutting down the blogs?", "Will you tell people before you shut down the blogs?", and "Are you going to start charging for this service?"
To my knowledge, no one ever answered these questions.
I read Harm's blog today and thought "Yup, I've heard that too." Then, I read how he took the big giant step of purchasing a domain name for himself and I thought "Hey! I did that too!" Because that's exactly what a did a little while ago. Then, I called up a good buddy of mine who is way more savvy with programming, and graphics, and whatnot, and things of that nature. And I asked him to do a couple of things for me. And I bookmarked this excellent blog about putting together your own website. The theme of this blog entry was "How to Leave Blogger", but I think the tips can apply to anyone interested in starting their own site. It relies on tools such as WordPress to help you through the process. Some folks may want to start their own site from scratch, but there is no way I could do something like that unless I commissioned someone to create the whole site for me, and I don't know if I want to spring for that much quite yet. Maybe, but maybe not.
Anyway, as a warning, I suppose - I find it interesting that these rumors of Yahoo 360 switching to another platform, or totally shutting down are still simmering. I sometimes start my blog entries in Word first - mostly because I have to leave the blog, come back and finish it, and Yahoo doesn't have a good way to "save" your blog entry. So, I know some of my longer blogs are saved. And, I've thought about the possibility that the rest of them could go "Poof!" at the whim of the Yahoo string-pullers. I've taken steps. Don't know if it will ever go anywhere past Yahoo, but yes, I've thought about it.
p.s. - I think all these preparations mean I'm too attached to my blog, but I'll deal with that later.
