Not that there have been any at all, recently, if I’m honest.
No, in common with many others today, I’ve received an email from Google informing me that blogger.com blogs will no longer support FTP updates to my own web space, and I’m going to have to transfer to a custom domain, hosted on their system – if I understand it correctly. Apparently, FTP is too complicated for them to deal with.
Google, I’ve got news for you. Your Custom Domain looks too complicated for me to deal with. They promise some sort of migration tool, but when I have the vagaries of 1&1’s DNS to cope with (including the all too common lack of control) this may not work.
What’s so difficult about FTP? You give it a target, a username and password, and tell it to transfer the files. The data remains under my control thankfully, so even if Google can’t transfer stuff I still have it for a manual upload later if necessary. What would future generations do without access to these gems of erudite wisdom? (That is a rhetorical question – I have a pretty good idea of the answer…)
So perhaps it’s time to rethink the pemur web presence – I own the critical domains (.com, .org, .me.uk and .co.uk) and so far they all do different things (apart from pemur.me.uk which does absolutely nothing at all). The original idea was that .org would be sort of work-related, and .com would be my personal domain, including biking stuff. Now I’m back on two wheels that may well take off again, and if the Google migration doesn’t work out then I can look in more detail at managing the structures myself.
Don’t think of it as the end of an era, just the start of a new phase in the Internet’s development.
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