Too good for Blogspot

— The constant crashes of Blogspot.com are a major nuisance for all of us who like reading blogs, and they’re increasingly the object of well-deserved scorn and ridicule. You can find Blogspot status at Transterrestrial Musings, and a log of recent Blogspot crashes. You won’t find any mention of Blogspot crashes on the personal website of Blogger owner and Blogspot operator Evan Williams, however. But what you will find is that Evan’s site is up when Blogspot is down, because the owner of Blogspot is smart enough not to rely on it. So my question is, of course, why anyone relies on a service that’s shunned by its owner? The answer, of course, it that it’s free, which forces me to remind you that you get what you pay for.