Microsoft’s MSN Spaces threatens to dominate with formal toolsets while others, like Blogger, hope to keep the technology’s pioneering spirit alive … However, with MSN Spaces, Microsoft is delivering a pre-set suite of blogging and complementary services on a platform that doesn’t allow for much manual tweaking and extension on the part of the end-user.
– The battle for the blogosphere | InfoWorld | News | 2005-05-27 | By Juan Carlos Perez
This is one of the main reasons I like running my own servers. I can do what I want, when I want it, how I want it.
I’m master of my own ‘domain’, so to speak 🙂
I like open source stuff better anyways.
sure it’s great when you can make it all work….but when it breaks it’s a nightmare…..
Dennis: It’s only a nightmare when it breaks for no apparent reason. I’ve always been able to fix problems on my linux systems.