I just had a horrible thought relating to the Google buyout of Blogger. The thought process went like this--I visited a journal that was created in Movable Type. I don't particularly like most of the Movable Type journals I see, mostly because I don't like the way they generally give you the opening paragraph of an entry, then a link to "more," or something like that, then you have to click to the entry page and you get the entry and a bunch of comments (that I am almost never interested in) at the bottom, then you have to go back to the entry page for another entry.

I'm guessing that all that is probably configurable, but that's how most of them I've seen are set up.

So anyway, it got me thinking, and I went to the Movable Type website and started looking around, and was very impressed by the interface--very classy and it looks like it would be fun to use, and most of the websites that use it do look very elegant. I don't, however, want to install a software program to maintain my blogs, I like being able to do it online and not be tied to one particular computer, since there are three that I use at various times (Mac at home, Mac at work, PC laptop for travel).

But anyway, I was considering downloading it just to play around with.

And then I had this horrible thought. Will Blogger users (or whatever we'll be called once Google takes over) become the lower class blogging citizens? Will we be like Geocities or Tripod website users? Maybe it's snobbery, but anytime I see a website hosted on Tripod, I don't even bother to follow the link, mostly because I know it's going to spawn at least four pop-up windows. Will I have to use Movable Type just to maintain my self-respect?