Comments on: Earthlink Debuts Corporate Blog, snubs own hosting and blogging services

By: Chris Brandon

Chris Brandon — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:34:46 +0000

Sorry, that’s 10MB of free webspace. My boss is lashing me right now. :)

By: Chris Brandon

Chris Brandon — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:30:36 +0000

Trellix is not a blogging tool, plain and simple. It’s a homepage builder that happens to include a blogging component for people who may want to add a daily journal to their personal web page. EarthLink promotes it on our intro to blogging page for those customers who may be new to blogging and want to take advantage of the 10GB website they get with their account.

However, if a seasoned user wanted to build and maintain an advanced weblog, we would highly recommend they use one of the feature-rich blogging tools like TypePad or Blogger.

Chris Brandon
Managing Editor, EarthLink Protection Blog

By: chris holland

chris holland — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:12:59 +0000

well, there are many things they coulda/woulda/shoulda done, but hey, i personally hate configuring someone else’s web application package on my own server, and i’m an application developer, so i could see how a bunch of enthusiastic PHB-types didn’t really care to do it themselves.

Not to mention that a number of cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities were found and recently patched in WordPress, and constantly updating web applications packages is a real pain in the rump. I’d rather let someone else worry about it. a hosted solution who’s in the business of offering tools to build and hosting full-featured personal and professional BLOGS pretty-much guarantees you an end-to-end working solution, at all times, and they’re the ones having to worry about fixing security holes, because in the end, that’s what you pay them for. If i was a PHB-type, i’d like that.

And frankly, as a paying broadband subscriber since 2000, i’d rather have earthlink keep dedicating its engineering resources toward services they offer to *ME*, such as the start page and webmail, rather than run and maintain some PHBs’ PR stint.

but hey. people were bound to pick-up on the fact they’re not hosting their own blog, after all, you gotta go for the sensationalistic headline. fair ’nuff.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:48:59 +0000

Chris
Maybe so, but if they didn’t like their own blogging tool (they promote as a doing blogs, as well as other things) then they could have used WordPress or a similar solution and hosted it themselves. I’m not an Earthlink customer so it doesn’t worry me, but if I was looking to have a blog and was considering Earthlink as my host, I’d think twice knowing that they don’t use their own hosting services for their own corporate blog.

By: chris holland

chris holland — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 07:45:27 +0000

Trellix isn’t meant to be as advanced a blogging platform as Typepad is, but then again Trellix lets users build more than just blogs, such as Resumés, online Businesses, Services and various forms of annotated picture Albums, which, while it also offers Picture Albums, Typepad isn’t in the business of doing to an equivalent extent. Typepad started as a blogging platform from the ground-up, Trellix was designed as a simple home-page and website authoring tool. Typepad does the blogging thing better. Trellix has more breadth.

so … earthlink decided to go for a blog-building tool to … *gasp* … actually … build a BLOG?

Apples … Oranges, anyone?