Todd Lyden

Image via Wikipedia This blog is hosted on Google's Blogger . I am an unrepentant Google fan. You've probably seen the information about the Bloggerpocalypse of 2011 . There were recent reports about the reliability of Blogger versus so many other platforms. Does this hurt?  I'd say no. How many complaints have you heard against a variety of web hosting companies. Bluehost, Host Gator and Godaddy are all still standing right? Loyalist like what they like. Sure, there are plenty of reasons to consider a Wordpress.com or .org account, but is it any more reliable? The bigger question becomes: do we trust the cloud? Uhm, what do you think your website with oodles of pages is sitting on? Unless you have it on your OWN server (and backed up), it's pretty much the same. The cloud is doing EXACTLY what it is supposed to. The scary part is that more and more traditional drive based and desktop-based functions are moving towards the cloud. Look at Microsoft Office 365 ! You don...

So I found this infographic just fascinating. These were the stats from 2009 according to Problogger. Of course, self-hosted Wordpress is growing like a well-water lawn. The best part is the click through to see that while Wordpress.org is growing by leaps and bounds, Wordpress.com declined since 2007.  Even more astonishing is that Blogger GREW! I love Blogspot myself and have done several sites using the platform. Of course, I'm using Posterous right now because I wanted to give it fair shot.  I am REALLY contemplating bagging this platform. I like it, but it does not offer enough toys to work with and is expressly hard to customize.  Thoughts? What about Tumblr? Think it will expand and what happens with the news about Typepad and Moveable Type ?