Even if Mash does get a blogging platform, I would strongly recommend that one avoid using it to establish a new location for one’s 360 blog, because one may well be setting oneself up for the next unpleasant surprise.

Exactly! As I see it, the only real guarantee is to blog under one’s own domain. Glad to see you reinforcing the main point of the post.

Thanks,
David

That is one of the more creative misspellings of my name I’ve seen. To be exact, I invited Ms.Wellington to Mash, no affiliation with Pete Cashmore’s Mashable, where I’m also a member.

Mash isn’t going to take care of the lady’s difficulties, as the place lacks a blogging platform, but thank you for reminding me, Mr.Rothman. Multiply does have a blogging platform and a blog moving program. One does well to download copies of one’s blog pages before using that tool, as there has been at least one report of lost blog entries, but for the most part, the program seems to have run smoothly for the many, many users who switched over. It might take care of a few problems for Ms.Wellington, who has a lot of material to move.

Mash is an aggregator with a new recreational modules added for fun. The need to be invited builds up a mystique around the product that isn’t justified. Also, since Yahoo seems to be acting on the “Peanut Butter Manifesto” theory, we do have the problem that Yahoo has somewhat recently purchased Mybloglog, which could itself be called an aggregator, albeit not a very good one. This raises the question of how long Mash will stay in existence, given the actions we’ve already seen out of Yahoo.

Even if Mash does get a blogging platform, I would strongly recommend that one avoid using it to establish a new location for one’s 360 blog, because one may well be setting oneself up for the next unpleasant surprise.

You know, I always read about this or that great web service and for the most part I severely limit which ones I uses precisely because of this … if someone else has your data, then you have limited control over it.

OTOH, does Yahoo! realize the horrible message its sending? Okay, I could see if they decided this was no longer something they wanted to be in, shutting off new registrations, etc. But this is a service they promoted *heavily* back when it was launched.

The lesson I get from this is that I shouldn’t use Mash and I should advise others not to use it because if it doesn’t catch on — like 360 never caught on — Yahoo! is fine with just abandoning its users.

I wouldn’t be surprised if 360 was some startup that launched in 2005 and never quite made it, but this is a rather cavalier attitude for a company like Yahoo!

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