New blogger sucks.

I switched over from "old blogger" today to try out the new "drag and drop" template editor. But that feature is not available to those who don't use the folks at Google to host their blogs. Apparently it has something to do with the "dynamic hosting abilities of Blog*Spot." Too bad they didn't mention that before.

Does this too make me a contrarian? I am still wary about Google and News Corp. owning and/or storing the western world's personalities/marketing preferences. When I first started blogging (in 1997, before it was called blogging), authors understood the simple software they used to share their thoughts. Now I have no idea what's going on, and I don't think that anyone else does, either.

Why should I use Blog*Spot? My blog isn't about anything, and it never was. Will Google really make it easier for people to find out what I think? Who cares? Why can't I own my own blog? Why am I not supposed to own anything around me except my clothes?