re: What will FTP Bloggers do after May 1?

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Joe Crawford <joe () artlung com>
> Date: March 26, 2010 4:50:18 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net, kgbarkes () yahoo com
> Subject: Re: [IP] What will FTP Bloggers do after May 1?

> Hi Dave, Kevin --
>
> I've done a few migrations for people who were in this situation. As a
> WordPress developer I'm using WordPress, though there are ways to
> create xml documents importable into other blogging platforms out
> there. Here's my recipe. I've gotten pretty good feedback on it,
> though with a larger blog, a huge migration like this does take a lot
> of work. Lots of gotchas: dealing old content, anchors, differences in
> how pages are named, labels vs. tags, redirecting archives and feeds,
> accounting for images and different paths for images.
>
> http://artlung.com/blog/2010/03/02/migrating-an-old-blogger-blog-to-wordpress/
>
> Google/Blogger does provide a migration path:
> http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/2010/03/ftp-migration-tool-released.html
>
> Though it does not handle things like images.
> http://artlung.com/blog/2010/03/04/blogger-ftp-migration-tool-does-not-account-for-your-images/
>
> Regards,
>
> Joe Crawford
> http://artlung.com/
> http://joecrawford.com/
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Dave Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: "Kevin G. Barkes" <kgbarkes () gmail com>
> > Date: March 26, 2010 4:33:49 PM EDT
> > To: dave () farber net
> > Subject: What will FTP Bloggers do after May 1?
> >
> > Google's Blogger is ending support for ftp publishing, which enabled
> > bloggers to publish their blogs to their own servers.
> >
> > On May 1, your Blogger blog will have to be hosted on a Google  
> > machine,
> > either via their blogspot service or by pointing your current blog  
> > URL to a
> > Google server.
> >
> > How are IP readers currently using Blogger FTP publishing planning  
> > to handle
> > this situation?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > KGB



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