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Whither Winer’s Weblogs

· Tuesday, June 15, 2004 · 1 comment

Dave Winer suddenly and abruptly shut down all blogs hosted on weblogs.com.

I agree with Michele Catalano that, while he had every right to stop giving away free hosting, it would have been decent of him to give notice ahead of time to allow people to back up their sites and restart them elsewhere.

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James Joyner
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Comments

  1. joy says:
    Tuesday, 15 June 2004 at 13:18

    He has the right to do it, but jeez, this just adds to his already infamous reputation online.

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