http://sniping.org/2007/12/05/in-soviet-russia-livejournal-blogs-on-you/ snipe -- verb [intrans.] -- make a sly or petty verbal attack Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:40:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://sniping.org/2007/12/05/in-soviet-russia-livejournal-blogs-on-you/#comment-9193 fdiv_bug Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:49:01 +0000 http://sniping.org/2007/12/05/in-soviet-russia-livejournal-blogs-on-you/#comment-9193 <p>As Luis mentions, self-hosting is the right way to go if it's within your technical skills and you already have or can afford getting a web host. WordPress is pretty easy to setup and maintain, and you never have to worry about your data getting locked in to anything. There's a <a href="http://www.inmostlight.org/2005/12/migrating-from-livejournal-to-wordpress" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> that someone wrote about getting your data out of LJ and into your hands, where it can be massaged as necessary to import into any other tool, I'd imagine. The <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/" rel="nofollow">ljArchive</a> tool he mentions is Windows-only, although since it's written using .NET it <em>might</em> work with Mono on Linux.</p> As Luis mentions, self-hosting is the right way to go if it’s within your technical skills and you already have or can afford getting a web host. WordPress is pretty easy to setup and maintain, and you never have to worry about your data getting locked in to anything. There’s a blog post that someone wrote about getting your data out of LJ and into your hands, where it can be massaged as necessary to import into any other tool, I’d imagine. The ljArchive tool he mentions is Windows-only, although since it’s written using .NET it might work with Mono on Linux.

]]> http://sniping.org/2007/12/05/in-soviet-russia-livejournal-blogs-on-you/#comment-9191 etselec Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:28:42 +0000 http://sniping.org/2007/12/05/in-soviet-russia-livejournal-blogs-on-you/#comment-9191 <p>Well, I don't particularly like LiveJournal and wish that I had chosen to host my blog somewhere else, and am not terribly happy with the current take-over. But the effort to move my blog seems Herculean. I'm not sure it's worth the effort. Maybe it would be if I made the move to self-host.</p> Well, I don’t particularly like LiveJournal and wish that I had chosen to host my blog somewhere else, and am not terribly happy with the current take-over. But the effort to move my blog seems Herculean. I’m not sure it’s worth the effort. Maybe it would be if I made the move to self-host.

]]> http://sniping.org/2007/12/05/in-soviet-russia-livejournal-blogs-on-you/#comment-9179 fdiv_bug Thu, 06 Dec 2007 03:32:58 +0000 http://sniping.org/2007/12/05/in-soviet-russia-livejournal-blogs-on-you/#comment-9179 <p>Fair enough; I was mostly basing my Russia comment on what icon said. Do you have any recommendations for European blog hosts to which I could direct my LJ friends? Also, heya Luis! :-)</p> Fair enough; I was mostly basing my Russia comment on what icon said. Do you have any recommendations for European blog hosts to which I could direct my LJ friends? Also, heya Luis!

]]> http://sniping.org/2007/12/05/in-soviet-russia-livejournal-blogs-on-you/#comment-9178 Luis Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:38:45 +0000 http://sniping.org/2007/12/05/in-soviet-russia-livejournal-blogs-on-you/#comment-9178 <p>US privacy laws aren't substantially better than Russia's. If you want security, self-host or host in Europe.</p> US privacy laws aren’t substantially better than Russia’s. If you want security, self-host or host in Europe.

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