Comments on: Data portability: Yahoo tool lets 360° users easily transfer their posts to WordPress.com—but nowhere else via the tool http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/data-protability-yahoo-finally-lets-360-users-easily-transfer-their-posts-to-wordpresscom/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/data-protability-yahoo-finally-lets-360-users-easily-transfer-their-posts-to-wordpresscom/comment-page-1/#comment-1134995 David Rothman Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:27:35 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/25/data-protability-yahoo-finally-lets-360-users-easily-transfer-their-posts-to-wordpresscom/#comment-1134995 Congrats on the <a href="http://www.energyjustice.net" rel="nofollow">Energy Justice</a> job, Beth. What a <a href="http://www.energyjustice.net/about/" rel="nofollow">useful group.</a> I did note Blogger's lack of data imports (though I should have said "In fairness to <em>Yahoo</em>, Blogger does not..."). That said, it still would have been great for the world in general if Yahoo had offered more export choices. The good news, although it won't help you with Blogger because of the (non)import situation, is that <a href="http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2006/06/12/xml-import-export/" rel="nofollow">WordPress.com can export</a>. David Congrats on the Energy Justice job, Beth. What a useful group. I did note Blogger’s lack of data imports (though I should have said “In fairness to Yahoo, Blogger does not…”). That said, it still would have been great for the world in general if Yahoo had offered more export choices. The good news, although it won’t help you with Blogger because of the (non)import situation, is that WordPress.com can export. David

]]> By: Beth Wellington http://www.teleread.com/net-related-tooks-from-search-engines-to-blogware/data-protability-yahoo-finally-lets-360-users-easily-transfer-their-posts-to-wordpresscom/comment-page-1/#comment-1134949 Beth Wellington Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:44:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/08/25/data-protability-yahoo-finally-lets-360-users-easily-transfer-their-posts-to-wordpresscom/#comment-1134949 Thanks, David, for providing your readers w. the update. One clarification: the problem w. portability stemmed from Blogger's end. They don't have a utility to import from another blog platform, while wordpress does. I only prefer blogger because I found it first and because I suspect that Google, who runs it, gives me preference in searches. My hiatus from blogging was not discouragement--I went on for a more than a year. It was because I took a new job with Energy Justice Network , after Newstrust let me go. Not journalism, but I love it. B. Thanks, David, for providing your readers w. the update. One clarification: the problem w. portability stemmed from Blogger’s end. They don’t have a utility to import from another blog platform, while wordpress does. I only prefer blogger because I found it first and because I suspect that Google, who runs it, gives me preference in searches.

My hiatus from blogging was not discouragement–I went on for a more than a year. It was because I took a new job with Energy Justice Network , after Newstrust let me go. Not journalism, but I love it.

B.

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