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Interesting piece over at Wired News on Blogger’s on-again, off-again flirtations with stability.

What’s up with Blogger, the institution that is eponymous with the media phenomenon it helped spawn?

Lately, it seems like almost every time you tune into your favorite Blogger-hosted blog to catch up on the latest gossip, meme, political diatribe or cybersnark, you find that the site is frozen in time. Or, there are multiple posts with identical content. Since Blogger, which is owned and operated by that sleek geek machine, Google, is a lot like a public utility, when it goes down, so do the lights on a large swatch of the blogosphere.

The result: a lot of irate netizens.

Blogger’s flakiness was the main reason I finally made the move on the backend to install WordPress, and I know Noelle still experiences problems with it (as have I, on those occasions I’ve posted something over there).

For all the really cool stuff Google comes out with, I’m surprised Blogger has languished as long as it has.