[CS-FSLUG] Blogging on the Cheap

[Ed Hurst]

When we use free services which have commercial backing, we take for
granted we become the product delivered to advertisers, and the service
is simply the means to obtaining the product.

My signature block links to my ministry blog hosted by Google. Aside
from all the other controversial stuff about Google, they have been
known to censor when activists scream loud enough about politically
incorrect blogs. For now, it seems unlikely I'll garner enough attention
for anyone to notice whether I'm being un-PC. I have a backup of the
really important stuff posted there, just in case some of my radical
statements get enough attention for Google to suspend it.

There are also a few services which are honestly charitable. Sadly,
lacking the big corporate budget, these seem to draw less traffic, to
the point it's hard to find out they exist and what they offer. Frankly,
I'd like to host such a service myself some day, but that's still a ways
off. I am certainly aware such services often have an even stronger
censorship policy.

I also maintain a blog which is not so directly faith-oriented, but
simply the stuff I want to yak about. This is more like a diary, and
sometimes other folks take a look. I am under no delusion I will ever
hit the commercial big-time with my writing, because that requires
participating in the madness of sheeple entertainment. I want to reach
them and teach them, not give them more of the same soul-destroying
non-culture which dominates.

Thus, I realize I'm on the fringe of things, but that's where I feel
called to stand. I expect some hassle with that. Still, I have managed
to make a few friends in this world, and I'd like for them to have ways
to keep track of my brain spew. Google will work for my faith-oriented
writing, but I need something for all the other stuff. My current
account at My Opera <http://my.opera.com/jehurst/blog/> is making me
very unhappy: frequently inaccessible, sometimes clunky and hard to use,
requiring membership for comments, the only redeeming features are it's
free and it has RSS.

Given what you now know, what might some of you suggest as a better
alternative?

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Ed Hurst
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