Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Trying out Blogger
I know a lot of you are trying out Blogger by creating blogs. So, when you create a test blog over there, call it something other than the name you want to use for your journal.
The reason I say that is because during the migration (read:copy) process, it will ask you for a blog name on Blogger into which to copy your journal. At which point you might not get the name that you wanted, because you have used it up on the test blog.
Of course, like everything in life there is a way around this, but I do not want to complicate your life any more than it is now. If you are savvy with Blogger then feel free to go and grab a name of your choice. I will show you a way to use that name to migrate your journal later.
The best thing you can do ahead of the actual migration is to create a gmail or blogger account.
Vish
p.s I created a blog on Blogger called jlandhub.blogspot.com as a placeholder for magic smoke(sadly i could not get magicsmoke.blogspot.com).
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Just wanted to say thank you for the fun things you and your sister provided for us and will miss them alot as they became part of what I did weekly. I hope I can adjust to the transfering of my journal and will miss all the wonderful people I've met here in J-land!
Nancy
I've actually had a blog on Blogger for some time now, and I was using my AOL Journal as a mirror (ironically, to back up my Blogger entries). The question I have is how much this may complicate things if I want to move my AOL Journal over to my Blogger blog. After all, I wrote a lot of stuff on my AOL Journal before doing the Blogger thing.
Anyway, if it's simply a question of duplicate entries, that's not a problem since I can go through and delete those before the move.
Thanks.
Dan
http://thewisdomofadistractedmind.blogspot.com/
Hey, just wanted to say thanks for all the work keeping the rest of us in the loop on this one. It's very appreciated and certainly preferable to waking up and finding our journals all mysteriously gone.
Thanks,
Bill, the Wildcat
http://wildcatslair.blogspot.com/
(Thankfully, I've had a mirror site on Blogger for some time now... but I gotta find a new place to load all my graphics since I was using AOL to store those online. Doh!)
I'm confused. I have already created a nutwoodjunction Blogger blog. Are you saying that I will not be able to migrate my AOL journal to that blog?
I will create an archive Blogger blog.
Beth
GEE, WHAT ABOUT THE PRIVATE AOL JOURNALS?????????????????????????
Beth,
So, first off, you cannot copy into an existing Blogger blog. The migration will create a new blog for you. Now if you want to call it the same as as existing Blogger blog you will have to rename your existing blog to something else and reuse that name for the Journal migration
Example,
Beth has created a blog on Blogger called nutwoodjunction.blogspot.com. Prior to the migration she will have to rename that blog to say nutwoodjunctiontmp.blogspot.com.
Then during the migration when Blogger asks you for the blog name you can enter nutwoodjunction, which will exist (because you just freed up that name).
Hope that makes sense,
Vish
Val, I already have an account there well before I had AOL Journals and ironically they are both named rosesareread.blogspot.com
So, are you saying that my account won't go through because it is the same name????? Oh my....what do I do now????
Please help.
how will this transfer actually work will someone walk me thru it or will I just have to do it all myself ?
hugs
Sherry
You know.I like the sound of J-LAnd hub....because this will be where we can gather together...
carlene
Queenie, your question has already been answered, and you know it. Don't stir the pot.
-Paul
I do have a couple of questions, though. Will the migration process be available to us well in advance of the deadline? And will the migration process eliminate the AOL blog, or is it just a copy function that will leave the existing AOL blog untouched. You know, in case it doesn't work the first time...
-Paul
http://journals.aol.ca/plittle/AuroraWalkingVacation/
From what I've seen of Blogspot, when our journals are migrated over, our tags, pictures, links to other journals, links to other sites, everything on the sidebars will be gone. I've visited blogs there, and it looks very bland and I never see any blogs with more than about three comments. Even though you may save the text of your journal, everything else looks like will be gone.
Vish no offense but I am so disappointed in the manner YOU chose to get this out there. A select few get an email from you announcing the secret that you knew months ago just prior to the lovely ad banners telling us our journals are done. Shame on you! Nice way to cause mass hysteria and drama. I lost respect for AOL years ago...... but I thought we could count on you!
It's a shame we will lose our comments as a lot of those mean more than the actual content in some cases, it's also a great shame that we were not given a great deal of notice, some of us work etc and simply do not have the time this will take to transfer our entries over!!!!!!
Yasmin
I just tried word press and loved it. I'm not backing anything up though, just starting new. My blog is tied to my soap site (which is pretty large) and losing this feature on AOL when I've used it so long is really REALLY disappointing. You'd think with the ads all over the place, we could have journals on here like most hosting sites provide. Just showing AOL is changing--I didn't even bother to install it on my laptop, I just go in through aol.com
This just sucks, but thank you for providing much needed information for all of us. I have YEARS of 'work' on here--but frankly, the whole "back up and save" is just too beyond me. I got lost on "log into AOL Client"...
*sigh*
kdmask,
You don't need to back up anything, if you opt for the migration route. Please see the preceding entries for a lot more detail.
Vish
Donna (nightmaremom),
A decision to shutdown Journals was made not too long ago (the week I stopped Blogplugs, I think). A lot of details had to be worked thru. I would have loved to tell you all about it earlier, but was not at liberty to do so. The so called select few, knew about this a few hours before people started getting email. I just wanted a few people to know so that it would not be a total surprise and moreover I do not come online before it is noon on the east coast.
Hope we can all work thru this in an amicable manner and understand that this was a business decision that the company made (although we may not agree with it).
Vish
A couple of responses to comments..
To Paul, yes a copy of your journal will be made on Blogger. Your journal will still be available till Nov 1st.
To Sherri - I would not worry about the migration too much. It should be fairly straightforward. Blogger also will have a helpdesk that you can send email to, if you have any issues and a live real person will respond and help out. So, all efforts have been made to minimize the pain.
To Yasmin (cayasm) and everybody else - Your journals will be copied over in its ENTIRETY (entries, comments, about me). So, anything else you hear is not true.
Vish
ok got you on my favorites
I thought of something last night about renaming blogs for the migration. Since I've already started writing on my nutwoodjunction.blogspot.com site, when I migrate the AOL journal over, I'll create a new journal called nutwoodarchives or something like that, and put the old stuff in there. I can link to it on the new blog. I'll still have all my old entries and comments, and it's no big deal if they aren't in one blog. Seems like that should work just fine!
Beth
http://nutwoodjunction.blogspot.com/
Good idea Beth, probably the best solution
Yasmin
http://cayasm-isntshegreat.blogspot.com
Vishy....I'm not placing any blame on you here but AOL should have informed us of this change 2-3 months ago. I just spent the last 2 days making my 2 blogs over at Blogger using the same name as my AOL Journals. Now you're saying I should use a different name? Am I going to have to delete them and pick another name making my last 2 days a waste of time? If so, I'm might as well quit blogging. This is a pain in the you know what. Thank you for your help but AOL has screwed us over this time!
~Dana
Vish... I understand the privacy but you broke that when you sent the email..... this has been in the works the minute hometown was closing shop.. are you telling me they didn't tell you?
PS I won't hold a grudge.. not my nature... my nature is being upfront and honest... which is why I commented in the first place... my opinion.. my thoughts..
In AOL journals URL my blog's name is thinkinglizard/sh/.
I could easily change that name. Since I'm already over
at Blogger, should I start a 4th blogspot blog today using
a slightly different name for the URL?
Alternatively, could I request
that my AOL Journal not be migrated. I have printed copies
of most of its entries and expect to be making significant
changes in Blogger space. Am planning on doing a lot of
manual work and on deleting my AOL journal before the
end of this month. Am not concerned about comments
since there not that many although I could copy them and
paste them offline.
Further, once a certain group of my AOL entries are in
place in a blospot blog, would it be okay for me to
delete that group of entries from my AOL journal?
Brian Salchert at thinkinglizard@aol.com
Thank you.
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