Irate
Weirdos is Dead ...
... Kinda.
Jericho here. Yeah, the rumors are true, IrateWeirdos.com is on its way
out.
Why? Well, there are several reasons. When Max and I began this blog in
the dark ages of 2002, blogging was still fairly new. I thought for a
very long time I could make money off this thing - as if one of my
ideas would ever work! Max and I thought we were onto something big.
In a way we were, but, as per usual, we were on the wrong end. In rapid
succession Live Journal and MySpace hit the scene. Suddenly, there were
more bloggers than blog readers. Then came Twitter and Facebook and the
concept of micro-blogging, a.k.a. Tweeting. So, now, here in 2010,
people who can't put together a decent paragraph sit around on their
phones Tweeting every single aspect of their lives. I recently
went to a party and watched a bunch of geeks with iPhones and
Blackberrys in their faces, Tweeting how much fun they were having at
the party to everyone else at the party, instead of just having fun at
the party! Blogging is dead.
Max and I have never been great about keeping up with the site. There
would be spurts by each of us putting up regularly posted new content.
However, regular posts were rare. In the last few years I have put up
more posts on my gaming
blog and my diet
blog than on IWDC. Max recently told me he is more likely to put up
a post on Facebook or Tweet something rather than put something up on
IWDC - it's quick, it's easy and there are actually people reading what
he wrote. I have followers on my diet blog, so I get what he means.
Last, but not least, Blogger has decided to no longer support FTP.
Never heard of FTP?
Don't worry, it's obviously a dying thing. It's how we transported the
things we wrote on Blogger to IWDC which was hosted by someone else. I
was angry about this at first. However, after downloading the contents
of IWDC via FTP to my PC, I was nearly KIA. FTP is really annoying in
this day and age so I guess I can forgive Blogger. But, it is kinda the
last nail in the coffin.
So, indeed, IWDC is on it's way out. We own the domain until February
of 2011, but all you will see out here is this post. However, the
portions of the blog we wrote on Blogger will now be hosted at BlogSpot
- right here:
It would take some work to bring the Pre-Blogger content to Blogger.
Max and I are both far too lazy and none of you actually care. Other
content we have had on IWDC will no longer be available once IWDC goes
away. There may be new entries, but they will be few and far between I
imagine. Catch us on our other blogs and Facebook and Twitter and
where ever.
Eight years. For Max and I this project was kinda epic. Glad you could
be a part of it. Goodbye.