So after suffering through Blogger’s growing pains, seeing it acquired by Google and waiting patiently for it to catch up with the rest of the market in blogging software, I’ve given up.  It’s disappointing that, even with all the money of Google behind them, the Blogger gang seemed to be having increasing problems keeping their site up–there were two days last week when I couldn’t post at all.  I also use the service to record headlines for my FierceHealthcare newsletter, and several times they weren’t accessible when I came to write the letter near deadline,which was a little stressful.  Furthermore, getting even basic features like category posts up on the service continues to elude Blogger, and the work-around that I used for topic listing cost lots of time and money.

So today THCB moves over to SixApart’s Typepad service. So far I and my webmaster John have been pretty impressed by the uptime and the customer service.  And although Blogger is free and the version of Typepad I’m using is $15 a month, it was becoming a case that in the evolution of my service, free wasn’t cheap enough! Typepad isn’t perfect yet, but at least they are working on it!

We were planning to wait until next month to move, but last week’s problems at Blogger were so severe that we advanced it over this weekend (and I want to thank John for putting in hours over the holiday weekend to get this done). So this current site isn’t quite done, and you’ll see some improvements soon I hope. Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions.

The other thing that is a first for THCB is that comments will now be on. Let’s see how that goes!

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