Blogging Software: ready for prime time? NO!

I'm grumpy because almost EVERY piece of blogging software I've been using lately has had serious problems.

Blogging is not a toy - serious companies like IBM, General Motors, Microsoft, and a few hundred (thousand?) others use and depend on it. Sorry, most of it just doesn't make the grade today - neither robust nor reliable.

First TypePad has an 18 hour catastrophe (I have blogs hosted by TypePad).

Then FeedBlitz, which I use for email subscriptions, has apparently not been allowing new users to subscribe to The Ted Rap for a couple of months. (kudos to FeedBlitz for immediately responding to my email - like within a couple minutes even though it's almost midnight!)

I moved to FeedBlitz from Bloglet because it's entirely unsupported and unreliable. Monsur Hossain, Mr. Bloglet, just doesn't care - his emails bounce, and even if you track him down like I did he doesn't respond.

"Fixing" (hopefully) FeedBlitz for The Ted Rap involved updating my Blogger.com template. I had to try SEVEN times until it succeeded! (I use Blogger.com for The Ted Rap).

Blogging Software: ready for prime time? Apparently NO :(

(hats off to FeedBurner - not only do you not suck, but you work reliably and well! And FeedBlitz for immediately responding - a class act, maybe it was my error?)