Blogging = Freedom

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Tue, 10/21/2008 - 19:19

Paul Boutin is a friend. I love the guy. I also think his latest Wired piece — Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004 — is a crock.* Two reasons.

One is that blogs are fine, even if they seem passé. The other is that blogs are free and open, while Twitter, Flickr and Facebook to varying degrees are not.

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