The recent closure of a free bloging service made me feel sorry for those that have content there. Losing your stuff is horrendous and often irretrievable.
Given how stuff happens on the inet, one can’t even be sure that a paid service won’t stop working. Things break; strategies change; sites make decisions. All these things make you a hostage to who holds your data. Now, when I evaluate any new idea, my first concern is if I put effort “in”, can I get my stuff “out”. I’ve been suckered too many times.
So here’s a way to protect blog content that is important to you. (Some blogs I read, it obvious that it’s an afterthought and losing it would be no big deal. I even have one of those for my fellow alums where I post Jasper Sports stories. My fellow alums felt that it cluttered up my ezine. And, so, I created a free blog for that genre. If I lose it, no big deal.
BUT what about content I care about? For example, I want to self publish this blog at the end of the year, and give my Mom a book. I think she always wanted me to be “somebody”, make “something” of myself, or fulfill my “potential”. I figure a nice bound book would fool her into thinking I was an author. That’s pretty somebody-ish. She can say “my son the author”. Not as good as my son the Donald, the doctor, the lawyer, the indian chief. But it’ll have to do.
So, to prevent losing anything and to have the input to self publish, I use FEEDBLITZ to collect my blog postings each day and send me an email. I use a gmail account for that purpose. This creates TWO backups of my blog. As a side benefit, I can use GOOGLEDESKTOP to search the local copy or GMAIL to search the mail archive of it.
That’s me Mister Belt and Suspenders!
You might want to consider it.
Now about becoming an Indian Chief, is it painful?
Reinke Faces Life 