I like to have a place online where I can store bookmarks to frequently visited sites. Having these online means I can get to them from any device I can get on that is internet connected.
Once upon a time, I started doing this with IWON.COM and continued until it killed the "portal" end of its site. IWON was orignally an online game site, but it had a neat, configurable, homepage that could display news, weather, and most importantly for me a list of bookmarks to sites. They were bought by somebody, Mindspark I think, who decided to kill the homepage idea and then killed IWON completely.
Well, another site owned by the same folks...Excite...picked up the mantle that IWON dropped. I was able to set up a configurable homepage there that gave me most of what I'd lost from IWON. However, that's going away now, too! The owners (Mindspark again...grrrr) decided to "update the Excite experience" and nerf its usefulness almost completely.
The advantage iwon and excite had is that you could add, delete, change, and configure links, etc, online and not have do it offline. That is an advantage that I can get from a Blogger blog...this one. It's a little harder to configure and doesn't give all the same features, but it's close. It's better than alternatives I've run across anyway.
Okay, so I have to move all my bookmarks over and get them configured as I like them. This is going to be time consuming, but not hard.
Here's my hope. I hope Google doesn't decide to kill blogger...ever! Or, at least, until I'm dead or too old to care.
