I'm CEO of a startup so I don't have much free time and I'm always cognizant of how much things cost.
I have been a paying for TypePad for five years and everyone I care about thinks I'm stupid for doing so. Over two TypePad accounts I have paid nearly $1000 to Six Apart. Enough. My paying for TypePad begins to end today.
Today I destroyed the TypePad for my company Renkoo. With the touch of a button, renkoo.typepad.com just plain disappeared from the webiverse. It's just a matter of time before it's gone from the Google cache, too.
I killed the Renkoo TypePad for three reasons. First, Renkoo TypePad was costing me an annual fee despite the fact that I haven't posted here in over a year. Second, two years ago I moved all Renkoo TypePad content over to renkoo.wordpress.com which is hosted for free. And third, Renkoo TypePad was costing me an annual fee.
In other words: Money, Money, Money.
It's 2008. Information wants to be free. Blogs should be free. Blogger is free. Flickr is free. Vox is free. Twitter is free. LiveJournal is free. Facebook is free. WordPress is free.
I won't go into why Wordpress is more fun to use than TypePad. If Six Apart decides to make TypePad free by September 1, 2009, I will keep this blog housed here. If not, I will move this blog. I already have ifindkarma.wordpress.com and I'm not afraid to use it.
How will Six Apart survive if they don't charge for TypePad? I'm sure they can figure something out. Chris Alden, Mena Trott, and Ben Trott, plus a deep bench, are so smart that August Capital put a lot of money in them to figure it out. So figure it out.
Because charging me for TypePad makes me want to leave so badly that I went all Keyser Söze on my TypePad tonight, and it felt gooooood.
Rather than give in to their demands he murders his loved ones and all but one of the Hungarians, whom he spares knowing that the survivor would tell the mafia what has transpired.
I killed one TypePad today. I'm ready and willing to do it again if I need to. Six Apart, set this TypePad free.
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