Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Testing, 1,2,3

I'm debating between wordpress and blogger for the next generation of heabdogg.com. I like the google integration of blogger but I dig the fact that I can create & manage more content than simple blog content with wordpress. What I really want is something more like what I have now - a blog and wiki rolled into one with SnipSnap. The downside of snipsnap is that it appears to be leaning towards a dormant project - not to mention I'm having to host it myself to be able to manage it the way I want. And by hosting it myself I mean full server maintenence, etc. I'm hoping that google's acquisition of JotSpot will turn into a google-hosted wiki service that might even one day integrate with my picasa web gallery and / or blogger site.

What would really push me over the edge between wordpress and blogger would be if I could find someone who's already written an XSL transform (or a script or full program) to convert or import from a SnipSnap site export or database dump. Wishful thinking though, I'm afraid. I basically am looking at having to ditch 7 years of blog entries... something I'm not at all liking the thought of. I can't seem to find any good documentation on the wordpress XML import options... it seems like it can import from RSS feeds or at least a variation of RSS, but until I can find some good documentation I won't be able to really write my own converter program. Same goes for blogger (though I must admit I really haven't looked at its import capabilities because it seems to lack the ability to create non-blog content).

Oh well. I probably won't really make a decision until my server completely kicks the bucket.

-Scott

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