In a previous post, I have written about my various fits and starts with previous attempts at maintaining a blog. As part of this newest effort, I am also going to consolidate some of the entries from my previous blogs. Not only will this clean up my electronic footprints and provide a single place for me to store my work, but it can also serve as an example of how blogger allows the writer to manually set the date and times for each post. Thus I can add content from several years ago and maintain the actual dates of those entries.
Another item to mention is how easy it is to export and import blog posts using blogger. Several of my old posts were simply exported from the old blog and imported to this one. In a matter of seconds, I was able to move my old content. This provides me with a level of confidence that if I were to find a better tool for sharing thoughts in the future, I could easily move my content from this area. This is not a trivial feature. The more time, thought, and energy that goes into your work, the more confident you want to be that it will be able to adapt to future media.
Finally, I should mention that a quick perusal of some of these older posts will showcase how my thoughts on blogging have shifted over the years. I am amazed at some of the ways I thought about using this type of tool. I am sure that my ideas will continue to evolve, but it is nice to now have several years of experimentation all in one place.
