Cyber Outrage Over Closed Blogs

[dArKeR]

Dave Winer, a pioneer of an online journal format known as Web logs, thought he was doing people a favor by hosting 3,000 of such blogs for free.

So he was taken aback this week when he endured a barrage of criticism for deciding to stop the free service — an episode that reveals deep passions about blogging. Winer launched his first Web log in 1997 and began hosting other people's blogs in 2000, when he headed UserLand Software, a Web publishing company.

After UserLand dropped the service to focus on selling blogging-related tools, Winer bought some servers and offered free hosting on Weblogs.com, a site that also tracks blogs hosted elsewhere, making it an important blogging hub.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/21/tech/main625198.shtml

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Lessee if i got this straight...

3000 people were leeching off of this guy and airing their personal bullshit for free for years and they are pissed he can't carry them any more?

Can we rent him the Grovelbot?