I’ve been pondering moving my journal to a wordpress blog or some other self-hosted service rather than livejournal, again. I don’t have any problems with livejournal, at all, don’t get me wrong. Its just that sometimes I would like a bit more creative freedom and would like to make my blog MINE. There are certain things that I can’t do on livejournal (such as have my flickr and twitter widgets up all the time) that I could do with a blog on my own site. What I think I may do is research what it would take to portal any entries directly from an individual blog straight into livejournal so that I would effectively be double-posting. The other alternative would be to set up an RSS feed for my offsite journal and have that be my livejournal presence.
Again, I’m just pondering and may or may not ever do it. Its just when I see the most successful blogs, they’re all self hosted. Not that I ever think I’m going to have a successful blog. Shyeah, whatevah.
Addendum (11:43 am): Looks like there’s actually several Worpress/LiveJournal Crossposting Tools. I may have to really start looking into getting my new URL, starting a new (more personal/photo based) website, and trying to be a more serious blogger.
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ooh. link to the crossposting tools?
I just did a google search for:
crossposting to livejournal and wordpress
and got a good number of hits with different tools and plugins. I haven’t really looked at them or anything, but they all looked pretty current and easy to use.
ah, ok. I’vee been thinking about such things, without really putting effort into it.
Finding out that its even possible has led me to seriously consider revamping my website, getting a new URL, and starting a wordpress blog in addition to all my photo stuff I need to start putting online.
My old website is such a travesty, its not even poignant anymore.