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After struggeling to make Blogger do what I wanted to do with my Blog I gave up!

Blogger just does not cut it when it comes to hosting a business blog. WordPress demanded a bit more setup - and I needed my own host (which I already had) - but it now gives me access to features I did not get with Blogger. For example, categories was one of the features I was longing for!

On Monday November 28th I posted live from a seminar to my Blogger account and then used FTP to upload to my own domain. I also made a similar post to a test I was doing on the hosted version of WordPress . In checking - two days later - my Blogger entry had not been listed on Technorati, but my WordPress.com (hosted) had. It was really scary. End of Blogger for me.

It took me a week or so to move. I wanted to move my Blogger posts with me. There are scripts, but I could not get them to work properly. And having only 40 posts or so I thought I would just copy them manually. I also decided to leave the Blogger posts in my directory, so I made a change in the HTML showing only one link from each post - back to my new WordPress PHP driven homepage.

I’m sure there will be other updates I will want to do, but at least all my posts are now migrated and my FeedBurner links are implemented.

roar at roarweb dot com - reporting live with WordPress

A MarketWatch article looks at RealNetworks Rhapsody service - which now is available over the web.

Personally I’m uncertain I really want to spend my bandwidth on playing songs. Downloading is one thing, playing is another.

Anyway, I decided to have a look. I looked around for a bit, then clicked on a link to a Rolling Stones album. I could see from the URL that they had already detected I did not have their player (”http://..has-player=false”. Shouldn’t be a problem with a web based service, right?

Well, not so. While the site was advertising I could check the music out for free (or at least that what I thought it said), they just wouldn’t give me access. Why, I’m on a Canadian IP address!

So while this system might work well in the US, forget it if you are going on holidays outside the US or just happen to live in Vancouver, BC, the “most desirable place to live in the world“.

I guess, with my new iPod [story], that I can manage well without them.

I wish though they had done more for me that just to tell me “no”. Why not take me to a page showing what my alternatives were? My guess is that they would be OK selling me music???

roar at roarweb dot com

Note: This post moved from Blogger December 6, 2005