No good deed goes unpunished
This poor bastard. Just goes to show that people only like you while they are geting what they want from you. Tsk, tsk.
Dave Winer, a pioneer of an online journal format known as Web logs, thought he was doing people a favor by hosting 3,000 of such blogs for free.
So he was taken aback this week when he endured a barrage of criticism for deciding to stop the free service - an episode that reveals deep passions about blogging.
Even though it was a free service, customers expected more:
“I can’t have 3,000 people who depend on me for free stuff yelling and screaming at me, saying, `I need this now,’” he said Wednesday. “I gave and I gave, and I paid a great price.”
How typical. Then the personal attacks begin:
Still, bloggers who relied on Weblogs.com were furious, saying they should have been warned about the cutoff. Their anger spread to other bloggers, too, including Elisabeth Riba of Melrose, Mass., who called Winer “an egomaniacal blowhard with his head in the clouds. So much for his vision of blogtopia.”
I wonder if he ever wishes he had never even bothered. Bunch of ingrates.