I look at my change in weblog software as a new approach. Radio UserLand is radically centered on the desktop: all its functions took place on my home computer -- weblog composition, news aggregation, content management. As a result, if my home computer was off, I was temporarily unable to access them. Moreover, since I am not willing to pay for a static IP address (with its attendant security risks), I was not able to access my weblog software remotely. Using Movable Type and News Is Free puts these tasks back on the web. The result is that I sacrifice some control for the sake of more freedom. I can blog when my own computer is off. I can blog from any machine. I can draw on resources greater than my own machine. This is what the Internet is supposed to be about: interconnectedness. Whether it will really work remains to be seen.