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How To Piss Off Thousands In One Fell Swoop

Leave it to Dave Winer to figure out how to do it...

Amazing. I bet that guy has one overworked image consultant.

Posted: Jun 16 2004, 09:38 AM by interscape | with 7 comment(s)

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SBC said:

I use DW's Radio Weblogs and it sucks. Unfortunately, I have over two years of blogs in it and have yet to figure out a way to get it all out. His product has not had an upgrade for over two years! I'd like to know what he thinks that makes him so "innovative"..
# June 16, 2004 10:00 AM

Todd Moon said:

I don't think anyone who had a blog there can complain if it was free. They took the free service for granted and when he pulled the plug they complain about it like it's their inalienable right to have access to those blogs.

"It's not okay for 3,000 weblogs to revert to a post by the software vendor one day without warning," wrote Jeneane Sessum.

Seems perfectly ethical to me if there was no service agreement involved. Could he have given the users a warning? Sure. Does that mean he was ethically supposed to do so? No.
# June 16, 2004 10:31 AM

Scott Galloway said:

If you read the thread, you'll also see that it mentions he will provide backups of anything - nothing was really wiped - just taken offline. Looks like the guy was having some personal / financial problems. It sucks but relying on a free service and not backing up your own stuff ain't too bright either.
# June 16, 2004 12:00 PM

Dumky said:

Actually he *was* ethically supposed to do so, because that would have been the right thing to do. But he was not bound to do so legally or otherwise.
# June 16, 2004 1:28 PM

Steve K. said:

Wow! He's managed to make the front page of Yahoo in their news section:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=528&ncid=528&e=4&u=/ap/20040617/ap_on_hi_te/blogs_pulled_1
# June 17, 2004 1:29 PM

SBC said:

I have a paid subscription with Userland and it still sucks. The desktop app crashes regularly and the editing page disappears in the midst of editing, thereby removing all new content. My subscription is up for renewal in August - I'll have to figure out how to get about 3 years of blog postings out..
# June 19, 2004 7:00 AM

Steve Schofield said:

i have no sympathy for anyone, if this guy was running a free service and decided to pull the plug that is his biz. Yeah, ok i'm sure he could go about it a different way, asking for help, warning people but in the end people could either host their own blog server on their dime or run the risk of what happened here. hosting fees and time that consumes running a site like this isn't free and can be a real headache. i personally wouldn't do that but again i don't bother with free hosted solutions like this and just do it myself!
# June 22, 2004 4:08 AM