Last night, Google’s Blogger format popped up with a panel saying that The Slog should try the new composition format. It should try it, the silo-men explained, because they were going to adopt it anyway: but by the way, if you do try it, you won’t be able to go back to the old system ever again.

Well, I think Blogger’s new composition system sucks. The comment timer has fewer options, the tags box is too small, and the old fault of the ‘helpful’ tags memory (which causes everything to take twice as long) is still present. What’s not present is the automatic link to me visual image library. Without explanation, it now gives me a 404 error panel. This isn’t service, it’s commercial dictatorship.

Why give people that 404 nomenclature? It’s meaningless, and yet somehow spooky: there was a true story about the Everglades air crash thirty years ago, and that was called The Ghost of Flight 404. Anyway, there will be no pictures at The Slog until further notice. I refuse to go back down to the dungeons called Chat Rooms in order to get some service: if anyone knows how to restore the link, could they please get in touch? Thank you.

PS We must all grow up and wake up about this remoteness bollocks currently pervading all internet service providers and most governments. They only do this because they can get away with it – but we have the power, not them. The Web needs more direct action to penetrate the silos: governments aren’t going to do anything, because they’re part of it – and in bed with the snoopers anyway.