One Step Ahead

David Winer, who has been running a free blogging service since 2000, upset his 3,000 users when he pulled the plug on his service this week. They complained that he should have given them a reasonable amount of notice, so they could put alternative plans in place.

OK, the guy could have given his users some warning before shutting down the service. But remember that this was a free service, and I reckon his users are ungrateful. Just imagine if each of them had been willing to pay him $5 per month for the service - it would probably have given him the ability to keep the service alive.

Folks, a lot of the stuff on the Net is free, but remember that it's all provided by people who invested their time and energy in it. So please do your part to help them to keep providing that service.