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I appreciate all of the insightful comments. All of you have very valid points of course. Do what you feel is right for you. I'm thinking long-term goals though
by alexknight 15y ago
I appreciate all of the insightful comments. All of you have very valid points of course. Do what you feel is right for you. I'm thinking long-term goals though. I've been burned by using services like Tumblr and Posterous, but not in that they're bad services, just that it's much harder to migrate your data to a self-hosted solution after the fact.
- th 15y agoI just migrated my WordPress blog to Jekyll recently without much difficulty. Data can be exported to Jekyll from Tumblr and Posterous as well (I'm not sure how well those migrations work though): https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations
- alexknight 15y agoThanks. I wish I had known about Jekyll back when I used Tumblr and Posterous. I gave credit to you for that suggestion in my part 2 follow up to last nights piece: http://zerodistraction.com/blog/2011/12/3/part-2-why-are-you-using-google-plus-for-blogging.html http://zerodistraction.com/blog/2011/12/3/part-2-why-are-you...
- svat 15y agoSee https://www.google.com/takeout/#custom:stream https://www.google.com/takeout/#custom:stream (Choose "Stream", not "Profile") You'll get each of your posts as a separate HTML file, and even the file timestamps seem to match the dates the post was made.