Comments on: Can DataPortability.org help Beth Wellington and others harmed by the Yahoo 360 shutdown? And what about Yahoo itself? Hello, Marc Davis? http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/can-dataportabilityorg-help-beth-wellington-and-other-yahoo-360-bloggers-displaced-by-the-y360-shutdown-and-what-about-yahoo-itself-hello-marc-davis/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:44:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Beth Wellington http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/can-dataportabilityorg-help-beth-wellington-and-other-yahoo-360-bloggers-displaced-by-the-y360-shutdown-and-what-about-yahoo-itself-hello-marc-davis/comment-page-1/#comment-1133471 Beth Wellington Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:22:43 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/01/10/can-dataportabilityorg-help-beth-wellington-and-other-yahoo-360-bloggers-displaced-by-the-y360-shutdown-and-what-about-yahoo-itself-hello-marc-davis/#comment-1133471 Finally, yahoo came up w. a good export--but only to wordpress. Part of this, of course, is the fact that blogger doesn't provide an import function. so the archives of my blog are now at wordpress, with a link to them from blogger. Finally, yahoo came up w. a good export–but only to wordpress. Part of this, of course, is the fact that blogger doesn’t provide an import function. so the archives of my blog are now at wordpress, with a link to them from blogger.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/can-dataportabilityorg-help-beth-wellington-and-other-yahoo-360-bloggers-displaced-by-the-y360-shutdown-and-what-about-yahoo-itself-hello-marc-davis/comment-page-1/#comment-687539 David Rothman Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:05:39 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/01/10/can-dataportabilityorg-help-beth-wellington-and-other-yahoo-360-bloggers-displaced-by-the-y360-shutdown-and-what-about-yahoo-itself-hello-marc-davis/#comment-687539 Hey, Pond, thanks for the tips, and you're dead on about the need to back stuff up. But remember, Beth and the other Y360 folks want the stuff in a format usable in a comprehensive way in another blog. And that means comments and other trimmings. Know of any tools that could do the job for her at Y360? Meanwhile I was pleased to see a MyBlogLog image from one Marc Davis. Same guy I mentioned in the post? Will be dropping him a note this weekend to see if Yahoo will be more helpful. Thanks, David Hey, Pond, thanks for the tips, and you’re dead on about the need to back stuff up. But remember, Beth and the other Y360 folks want the stuff in a format usable in a comprehensive way in another blog. And that means comments and other trimmings. Know of any tools that could do the job for her at Y360?

Meanwhile I was pleased to see a MyBlogLog image from one Marc Davis. Same guy I mentioned in the post? Will be dropping him a note this weekend to see if Yahoo will be more helpful.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: pond http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/can-dataportabilityorg-help-beth-wellington-and-other-yahoo-360-bloggers-displaced-by-the-y360-shutdown-and-what-about-yahoo-itself-hello-marc-davis/comment-page-1/#comment-687379 pond Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:44:20 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/01/10/can-dataportabilityorg-help-beth-wellington-and-other-yahoo-360-bloggers-displaced-by-the-y360-shutdown-and-what-about-yahoo-itself-hello-marc-davis/#comment-687379 We can control our own destinies to some extent. Never post a blog or web-based email or anything without saving it locally. For blog posts, include the date when you posted it. I use the mac-app Scrivener to save and organize all my blog posts because its organizational tools are great. TreePad for Windows and its imitator tree-based text editors make another fine choice. Or even TiddlyWiki, which will preserve the 'tiddlers' according to date created. Really, the bottom line: users can't trust companies to continue to offer the same services forever. MicroSoft has changed the file formats of MS-Word many times, leaving old Word files unreadable; Google Video dropped out; and then there are all the old ebook reading devices with their online 'libraries' --- once the company failed, the online library disappeared. DRM and copyright eliminate users' ability to back up legally-purchased ebooks and videos, but we can certainly back up blog posts etc. that we create ourselves. And we should! We can control our own destinies to some extent.

Never post a blog or web-based email or anything without saving it locally. For blog posts, include the date when you posted it.

I use the mac-app Scrivener to save and organize all my blog posts because its organizational tools are great. TreePad for Windows and its imitator tree-based text editors make another fine choice. Or even TiddlyWiki, which will preserve the ‘tiddlers’ according to date created.

Really, the bottom line: users can’t trust companies to continue to offer the same services forever. MicroSoft has changed the file formats of MS-Word many times, leaving old Word files unreadable; Google Video dropped out; and then there are all the old ebook reading devices with their online ‘libraries’ — once the company failed, the online library disappeared.

DRM and copyright eliminate users’ ability to back up legally-purchased ebooks and videos, but we can certainly back up blog posts etc. that we create ourselves. And we should!

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