The Power to Publish

March 21, 2001

Awhile ago I lamented the downsizing of Blogger, which still powers this site, and expressed concern that the ability to run my weblog would be in jeopardy. Although the service is still around, albeit running very slowly, I set out to find an alternate.

Beginning next month we will be offering a blog service for siteSatellite customers based upon GreyMatter. The tool offers so many features over Blogger's service that we decided to give it a try internally.

Based upon my initial impressions, this little vortal on the web will be making the transition to GreyMatter very soon.

Why abandon Blogger? Blogger simply became too popular a service with too many users and too little funding. As a result their servers have gotten very slow and the service has not added features that I need. Users that do not run their own web servers will still find their service invaluable for posting logs. I just reached the point where I found that siteSatellite's servers were able to handle the added traffic and new demands of a program like GreyMatter.