{"id":362,"date":"2001-02-01T12:25:32","date_gmt":"2001-02-01T11:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=362"},"modified":"2001-02-01T12:25:32","modified_gmt":"2001-02-01T11:25:32","slug":"blogger-is-not-well-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2001\/02\/01\/blogger-is-not-well-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger is not well, and"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\">Blogger<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evhead.com\/longer\/2200706_essays.asp\">not well<\/a>, and I, for one, am worried. Blogger provides an excellent service &#8211; ok, it has its ups and downs, but overall, it&#8217;s pretty good. But I&#8217;m worried that if the service appears weak, people will switch to alternatives like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noahgrey.com\/greysoft\/\">Greymatter<\/a>, or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomz.com\">Atomz Publish<\/a>, and then the commercial future of Blogger will be *really* weak. I&#8217;m surprised that Ev didn&#8217;t see this coming &#8211; as a marketer, I hold to the basic tenet that if you have a good idea, some bugger will come along and do it better. The trick is to do it better yourself before they have a chance. In the case of Blogger, the &#8220;do it better&#8221; trick is to do it *and* make money.<br \/>\nBut then, if even the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\">big players<\/a> on the web can&#8217;t make money, what hope is there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger is not well, and I, for one, am worried. Blogger provides an excellent service &#8211; ok, it has its ups and downs, but overall, it&#8217;s pretty good. But I&#8217;m worried that if the service appears weak, people will switch to alternatives like Greymatter, or even Atomz Publish, and then the commercial future of Blogger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}