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Blogger: The Rodney Dangerfield of Blogging

Source: Mark Evans

Sep 06, 2009

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A post by Louis Gray about the Blogger recently celebrating its 10th anniversary caught my attention for several reasons. One, it’s hard to believe anything on the mainstream anything on the mainstream Web is a decade old until you remember it has been 14 years since Netscape’s IPO, which symbolically marked the official transformation of the Internet into the Web.

While Blogger ranks among the world’s leading blogging platforms, it really doesn’t get the respect it probably deserves. Meanwhile, Wordpress basks in the spotlight, although a recent security hack, which I experienced a couple of week ago, is probably not the kind of attention it wants.

Blogger struggles to get its props because, frankly, it is buried deep within Google, which acquired Blogger in 2003 (Twitter’s Ev Williams was one of Blogger’s co-founders). While Google users Blogger for its publicly-facing blogs, Blogger hasn’t really received a lot of love and attention from Google.

Sure, there has been a tweaks here and there, but Blogger is still pretty much the same platform it was six years a

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