Rodent Regatta

Take a look at the discussions about female blogging tools. Jonathon talks about things he read elsewhere. Apparently, there was a path from Blogger to Greymatter to Movable Type for many users.

My reasons for leaving Radio were similar to this statement about Greymatter:

Predictably, most abandoned Blogger because of instability and/or lost archives and gave up on Greymatter when Noah Grey departed the scene.

When Dave Winer talked on several occasions about stopping his work, it gave me a reason to think about alternative weblogging tools. When I lost several posts due to either bad PC performance or bad Radio performance, I had another reason to look around. Finally, when I simply could not figure out how to edit templates successfully in Radio, I had yet another reason to seek help elsewhere.

Userland is a private company. We get no information specific to their financial status or their organizational direction. However, they have a terrific tool. Knowing what I know today, I’d still be using their product if I hadn’t become so uncertain about their stability in the marketplace. Please understand that my uncertainty was not based upon any facts I had. I simply couldn’t see Radio Userland thriving without Dave Winer. Maybe that’s not the case.

As it is, none of the work I did in Radio is visible today. No huge loss, but those entries were mileposts along a significant learning curve for me.