Who killed the personal homepage?

The codepoet rants about the gone days of personal websites, weblogs that have "the answer to a question no one asked" and the alleged lack of CMS systems for personal websites.

Actually the days of the personal website are not gone: There are still lots of them, mostly mediocre in style, quality and graphics design, plus lots of better-be-not homepages of small and medium business enterprises. These may all need a CMS - check your local computer zine for a list of those - but further they need quality, design and good content. Oh well, there are also countless good personal websites.

Just ´cause we all surf weblogs, read RSS feeds of bloggers that mostly link back to other weblogs, think weblogs, admire weblogs, live weblogs, crave for weblogs, that doesn´t mean that most people use other tools such as Microsoft Frontpage to set up their webpages.

After all - the general public hardly knows how to setup a personal homepage, less a weblog. Many web users hardly understand their web browser, so that will rather turn to a tool already available on their desktop (pre-installed probably), rather than going to an unknown webpage (and god beware even paying for that or entering personal data on an unknown site (though people propably aren´t so cautious as they claim to be)). Thus a desktop bundling deal will be essential for a weblog tool hosting provider - not necessarily with an OS vendor, but also with an ISP or software vendor.

Weblogs maybe easy, even much easier that editing a homepage in Frontpage, but are a different type of content presentation (or representation) after all.

Was that enough ranting on my side?