Blog-City, the blog host I used for the second incarnation of Chocolate and Vodka (after Blogger went all crap) have summarily killed my archives. I have the data, but no way to import it into Blogware, or to make it publicly available, so I am a bit peeved that a chunk of my online past can just vanish.
I think this is a real shame. Storage is cheap, and I personally feel a bit like blogs should be forever unless the owner decides to delete, but obviously Blog-City wanted to clear off some space on their servers and I am sure that they would take the line that as I was no longer paying for the service (I paid for the last two years, even though I wasn't using it), and as the blog was dormant they have the right to delete it. I guess they probably tried to contact me but didn't get a response. Who knows. I never got the email, which may just mean that an old address was on file. Probably all my fault.
Still.
Ok... so any geeks here wanna take a stab at converting the old Blog-City archives into something that's importable by Blogware?
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Blog-City killed my old blog
by
Suw Charman
on Mon 08 May 2006 12:13 PM BST | Permanent Link
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Re: Blog-City killed my old blog
<i>"Ok... so any geeks here wanna take a stab at converting the old Blog-City archives into something that's importable by Blogware?"</i>
I wouldn't mind giving it a shot. I'll try to remember to ask next time I see you on IRC ... or ping me on IM when you have time. Re: Re: Blog-City killed my old blog
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Suw Charman
on Mon 08 May 2006 05:34 PM BST | Profile | Permanent Link
I'm on IRC now. Ping me an email addy, and I'll email you an archive so you can see what they've done with it. :D
Re: Re: Re: Blog-City killed my old blog
dossy@panoptic.com -- let 'er rip.
Re: Blog-City killed my old blog
Any chance we could get a look at the format the data is saved in? It should be easy enough to convert.
Re: Blog-City killed my old blog
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Anonymous
on Thu 08 Feb 2007 10:58 AM GMT | Permanent Link
If you ask support we keep regular backups. You can probably get it back.
Abandoned blogs are removed, we do every to email you and remind you to blog just 6 times a year....any more than that and we'd be in trouble for spamming you. |
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