Oh, Mallory

Federated Media has just announced a partnership with WordPress.com. "The deal will include all of the blogs that are hosted under the company which comes to around 25 million." WordPress.com users will now be subjected to a big re-vamp of corporate-sponsored advertizing.

Perhaps it's time you considered taking more control over your blog?

It's very easy, and not expensive, to leave Wordpress.com's (Federated Media's) generally irresponsible Software as a Service practices to instead host your own website. After all, Wordpress is Free Software (unlike Blogger), so you're nearly there already! You just need to follow these steps*:

1. Find a basic hosting package. You don't need to pay more than $5-10 per month. My suggestion is to also join a progressive organization at the same time and for the same cost (yearly $100 or $200 if you're an org.)
2. Download and install the Wordpress source code on your new hosting server.
3. Export your old site at Wordpress.com and import it into your new site.

You should own your website and your data, not a few corporations with special interests that annoy you with ads or violate your right to privacy by selling information about you and your work.

I promise to personally help anyone who needs it, for free. Comment below: