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Google Helps Offer Blogger Pro For Free

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-things-for-nothing dept.

Khazunga writes "News.com is reporting that the Google-owned Pyra are releasing the formerly-$35/year Blogger Pro weblog service for free. This is backed up by an announcement from Evan Williams at the Blogger Pro site, as well as a list of the newly free Blogger features. It's the dot-com frenzy all over again! Free services with no business plan... run for your lives!"

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  1. Bloggers are smarter by OMG · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the free features list:

    Spellchecking: Fewer typos. Look smarter.

    I say: Spellchecking is for wimps. Be smarter. ;-P

    1. Re:Bloggers are smarter by daveo0331 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Even with spell checking, it will bee easy too tell who knows how to spell correctly, who van avoid making typos, whom knows how to use grammar correct, and who can avoid using, improper punctuation.

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      Remember the days when Republicans were the party of fiscal responsibility?
    2. Re:Bloggers are smarter by jejones · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now (in theory) blogs will be a lot more literate - or at least slightly less illiterate.

      No, it's just that the illiteracy will be of a different sort; computer-aided, so to speak. A spell checker won't save people who confuse "there," "their," and "they're" or "its" and "it's," use "loose" where they mean "lose," or use apostrophes for plurals.

      Do a web search for "my tail is dun." I burned out on the Xanth series long ago, but I would love to see that little scene from Centaur Aisle handed to everyone entering junior high. Humor drives points home very well indeed.

  2. we don't need no stinkin' plan by RevDobbs · · Score: 4, Funny
    It's the dot-com frenzy all over again! Free services with no business plan.

    Who needs a business plan? Just make sure that the numbered item before "profit" is "???".

  3. Yeay! by qmrq · · Score: 5, Funny
    Now we get to listen to all the little teenie bopper girls out there talk about makeup problems, who the cutest boy in class is, who kissed who behind whose back..

    We also get to listen to middle-aged women who do the blog thing bitch. Woo!

  4. Re:business plan... by ErixTr · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. The reality is;

    1. Profit
    2. ???
    3. Release formerly profitable software for free

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    less is more
  5. Re:Squatters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reminds me of the story I heard about a company that wanted a site developed called News Exchange. The domain name they wanted? newsexchange.com.au
    The developers made the company realise the folly of the plan by making the title of the site "NewS exChange"

  6. Spell-checker - is there a 13-y-o angst mode? by KNicolson · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cuz lst tym 1 luk'd @ rndm blogz 90% wuz thiz kinz f shizz.

    Ugg, even more painful to write than read!