I started Tech-media-tainment on Google’s Blogger platform at the tail end of the blogging craze in late 2008. Blogger offered the best-available free platform for anyone to create a blog on any subject.
I’m still happy with Blogger after all these years, but it clearly is a low priority for Google now. Google hasn’t changed Blogger much in that time, but it has become less functional over that period. I can’t do things on Blogger that I used to be able to, such as edit a post from that post’s published page or place photos within body text just by putting my cursor where I wanted the photo to go.
But it still does the job I need it to do and it’s still free. I wouldn’t blog if I had to pay to do it.
In fact, Google used to pay me through an ad-sharing arrangement by having AdSense on Tech-media-tainment. Between 2012 and 2016, I received a check whenever my share of ad revenue topped $100. In all, I received five checks.
But after I wrote a few blog posts looking at the public figures that the porn industry liked to parody in their videos, Tech-media-tainment was de-monetized. My blog didn’t feature actual pornography but the subject matter apparently violated the rules for AdSense. So that relationship ended.
Blogging was still cool when I started Tech-media-tainment but it was soon replaced in the zeitgeist as creators moved to social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and others. Many creators soon became social media influencers.
Back when I started Tech-media-tainment, Blogger used to spotlight interesting blogs on the service. But it ended the Blogs of Note column around 2011.
I’m just happy that Blogger is still operating. It helps to have a wealthy conglomerate like Alphabet backing it. I had previously tried free blogging services GeoCities, Xoom and Soup.io, but they all went out of business. Lots of bloggers moved to WordPress, but that costs money.
Photo: Blogger start page.
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