Outside the Beltway

Whither Winer’s Weblogs

James Joyner · Tuesday, June 15, 2004 · 2 comments

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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Comments

joy says:

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at 13:18

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

Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at 18:35

Winer vs. Communication
Breaking News: Dave Winer, inventor of the syndication format known as RSS and former-proprietor of Userland software, shut down close to 3000 weblogs this week after releasing a statement noting that the financial burden of hosting these free web…

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