The phrase may be hackneyed, but maybe that’s just because it comes in handy so often. I’ve often said that Austin has been spoiled by its own success.<\/p>\n
I wonder if the same thing is happening to Blogger<\/a>. Let’s be clear: I think Blogger is great. It makes it dead simple — and free<\/b> — for everyone to start a blog, and in my book, that’s a Good Thing.<\/p>\n The problem is, everyone did, and Blogger has become overwhelmed. People find their archives are evaporating, they’re having trouble posting, etc. I made the switch to Moveable Type<\/a> a while ago, not because of problems, but because (as I half-jokingly say) my life wasn’t complicated enough. Seriously: I wanted to play around with some of the numerous options that MT offers. A little while ago, Jenny<\/a> encountered these problems, and so I set her up with a blog inside my own installation of MT. More recently, Dori<\/a> encountered the same kinds of problems, so I helped her set up her own MT blog (I’m getting good at this). I suspect that the same story has been repeated hundreds of times. <\/p>\n Blogger’s excess of success may be Moveable Type’s success as well. 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