2008/12/7 Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I want to open up a blog quickly using a hosted blog system, eg. > blogger, livejournal etc. > > Some time in the future I want to extract the data (posts and > comments) out of the blog and convert it to my own system (probably > written in django, or using some other system). > > What hosted system will be easiest to extract the data from in the > future (I'm happy trying to write code to talk to database APIs, but > would prefer not trying to automate page scraping). > > In Mary's backup talk she mentioned that Livejournal made it easy > enough to get to the posts, but not the comments. > > Are there any systems that are better?
Wordpress.com claims to be free of vendor lock-in: "You can leave WordPress.com any time you want and your content isn't locked in. We provide a complete XML export of all your posts and comments." (From http://wordpress.com/features/) Since it's built with Wordpress (which is GPL), you can easily move to your own blog later on. Note that I haven't tried their services myself, but they do appear to have a strong reputation. -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
