It turns out that the Internet has changed a lot the last decade: some communities faded, most notably the usenet, while forums, and social networking sites made a steady progress. Somehow skype managed to become the chat application of the net, and google the search engine of the net. While I think the latter owes their success mostly to the huge and well maintained search engine, and the fact that they limited the number of ads and they stayed away from the heavy multimedia ads that bogged the other search engines, the success of skype is still not that easy to figure out why it happened to them.

Anyway, everyone moved from static to dynamic, from local to remote and global, the plain HTML just got a little standardization, while javascript became the king, Sun died and Oracle is probably going to fuck the idea up, this was a heavy blow to the open source movement, but it is still there and is going stronger. Wikipedia is a great project, that grew on simple open source, and a great community. Clouds are becoming modern, secure, cheap, etc.

What I am writing all this for, though, is that I notice for some time, that the blogging has become a great thing, bloggers a getting more and more savvy. I really don't know of sites other than blogspot, but there probably are, but I think I can use blogging to say something smart to the world, something that is probably going to be of benefit to readers, and something that will be of benefit to me to have it written, so I can re-read it from time to time and improve on it. I really see some guys are applying nice styling and customizing their blogs considerably and that is of great interest to me.

Here is a list of blogs that on a first look, impressed me today:
rainydaygardening.blogspot.com
artearthinksoul.blogspot.com
fangmannfollies.blogspot.com
innisrecipes.blogspot.com
vinceslifesong.blogspot.com
johnnyjeffords.blogspot.com
tomionsoftware.blogspot.com
robbyoconnor.blogspot.com
lborupj.blogspot.com
juddsolutions.blogspot.com
deepakarora1984.blogspot.com
compdocs.blogspot.com
mlawire.blogspot.com

Also, I have to figure a way to backup! This is crucial. I've worked for AOL and after seeing how they screw data of their paying customers I can hardly rely on a company to keep my data especially if I have a free account.

One of the things that I don't like about blogging is that newer posts display above (IOW before) older posts. Sometimes (especially when several posts are related) it makes more sense to present the new post after the old. Maybe there's a way to change that.

Another thing that I don't like is that the edit window is not very big.

Here some other blog providers:
blog.bg - in Bulgarian, doesn't seem like it is very customizable. Nice postings are Devetashka Cave Erma river gate old well-temple at village Garlo Pernishko
wordpress.com

Nice photos at
http://www.evgenidinev.com/seen/buzludzha_inside/