Sunday, December 05, 2004

The Nightmare Begins

Via Roger L. Simon, I find that Microsoft has just started its own blog service to compete with Blogger, Moveable Type, and others. With annoying ads on everyone's page, of course. One Roger L. Simon commenter noted that
"If you read the fine print, they also own *all* your content."

to which Michael J. Totten replied with a comment stating

"Wow. Microsoft has some nerve. What on earth could they possibly ever want to do with somebody else's blog content? Take a cut if Opinion Journal wants to reprint something? Man."

Well, you know, if Microsoft is getting in on it, then it's now official: Blogging is so five minutes ago!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Why would M$ even want to get into it?

Oh yeah, some folks would be too lazy and too cheap to plunk down a six-pack's worth of chump change and own their own domain. Plunk down a few cents more to get it hosted and own it all free and clear.