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I don't know about you, but I want my blog to be preserved for eternity. That's why I signed up with Blogger -- Google's stewardship of the Usenet archives has shown me that they are committed to preserving user-created content for the long haul. Another candidate is OurMedia.org, backed by the Internet Archive which has altruistically maintained snapshots of a good portion of the web since 1996, under the leadership of the eccentric Brewster Kahle. So they too have proven their commitment. I don't know about Yahoo though... Their culture screams commercialism to me. I don't know if I want to hand my data over to them, for fear of it being deleted. Case in point: Yahoo Mail deletes all your mail if you don't log for a certain period of time. This is an example of stinginess toward the customer. Counter-example: GMail, which offers 1 GB of space and email forwarding -- probably the only free webmail service to offer these features. I'll take generosity over stinginess any day.