WordPress

Thanks to Google’s decision to move PicasaWeb galleries under the Google Photos banner, and more specifically the likely effect that may have on my few years of Blogspot blogging posts and the access to those photos, I have elected to move all my blogs to a WordPress server. Rather than using the WordPress hosting service, I have chosen to use WordPress on a server is hosted by GoDaddy. In a way, I am again dependent on another entity for my internet real estate, but this is a paid service and I don’t think GoDaddy is as likely to make such far reaching decisions without input from their paying customers. Besides, it’s easier to have GoDaddy host all this stuff as well as register my domain names. Well, most of them are here, anyway.

Google is great (if maybe too connected) and I foresee keeping my gmail accounts and my Google voice number for as long as they offer them. My preferred mobile phones are Android, so there will always by a Google connection there. Google is also a private business and they are completely free to make whatever decisions they see fit to operate their business. Those of us who enjoy the services that they offer for no direct renumeration must be willing to accept that we really have no say in their decisions, not like their board of directors does.

My blogging, even if only seen by a small number of people, is a deeply personal investment of my time (on Blogspot since 2009, before Google bought them) and I am trying to insulate myself from the decisions that Google may make.

Thus, I am moving my blogs over here where at least I have a contract with GoDaddy and they have accepted my renumeration in exchange for specific services.

I have five Blogger / Blogspot blogs, though really only three of them have any reasonably current activity. As I learn how things work in WordPress, I imagine I will build replacements for all five blogs, plus a couple on MSRuns and, who know, maybe some new ones. It should be an interesting ride, for me anyway.

 

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