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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Neil McIntosh

Here's a little Onlineblog.com exclusive:

Here's a little Onlineblog.com exclusive: it's the beginning of the end of free at Blogger. I've just been interviewing Evan Williams, brains behind Blogger.com, the weblog site which powers this and hundreds of thousands of other blogs. I'd dragged him away from development of Blogger's first premium service: fast-responding servers. Blogger, as Jack's posting below suggests, has been under great strain since October, when the US terrorist attacks prompted a surge in people wanting to create their own weblogs. Now Evan plans to start building up a premium service: in the next few hours, he'll launch a $30-a-year membership scheme, which will offer faster and more reliable service. The free Blogger will remain, but other - quite compelling - premium services will be rolled out quick-fire after that. Watch out for the full interview in Online soon.

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