[$] Federated blogging with WriteFreely

Your editor has never been a prolific blogger; a hard day in the LWN saltmines tends to reduce the desire to write more material for the net in thescarce free time that remains. But, still, sometimes the desire to postsomething that is not on-topic for LWN arises. Google+ has served as theoutlet for such impulses in recent years, but Google has, in its wisdom,decided to discontinue that service. That leaves a bereft editor searching foralternatives for those times when the world simply has to hear hispolitical opinions or yet another air-travel complaint, preferably one thatwon't vanish at the whim of some corporation. Recently, a simpleblog-hosting system called WriteFreelycame to light; it offers a platform that just might serve as a substitutefor centralized offerings.