Oh, boy ... this won't be good

Jimmy. Is this wise or necessary?

Posterous, as you might know, will be shutting down on the 30th of this month, leaving millions of users to scramble for new places to locate their blogs. This isn't because the service was unpopular. In fact, it was one of the larger providers, but Twitter wanted to do an acquire, taking a shortcut in order to pick up maybe about eight employees.

This, normally, really annoys the users, but something special and unprecedented is happening this time, around. If one checks, at a time when millions of people need to move right now, blogging hosts are either breaking down or unavailable, having shut off registration, which means that these millions of people are going to lose years of work, in many cases, having nowhere to move their content.

Think about the words "millions of people, getting really, really angry" - have you ever lived in a major city? These are not good words to hear. This is usually the prelude to something really, really bad. I don't know what that something is, but look at the odds. If only one in a thousand people decides that he needs to lash out, that's thousands of people running amok. Chaos. Pure, horrible chaos, and you know some of those people will turn out to be hackers.

This sounds like a huge mess in the making. Scribbld would seem to have just painted a bullseye on itself. We can all hope for the best, of course, but how to put this gently? Have you ever noticed how few veteran Russian roulette players there are? I'm not saying that somebody is going to go postal over this, just that luck has a way of running out.

Did I mention the angry mob?

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