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Saturday, March 22, 2014
Google+ surprise
So I got a little surprise today when I got a notification on my phone that someone had commented on my Google+ post. Now, I haven't even *looked* at Google+ in months, so I wasn't sure what had happened there. It turns out that Google has been helpfully sending all these blog posts to Google+. I'm sure I must have clicked "OK" on a dialog that popped up on the Blogger site at some point to allow that, but I'll be darned if I can remember doing so.
It doesn't really bother me that this is happening, but it's one more little thing that makes me revisit the idea of moving this blog to Drupal or WordPress, hosted on my 1&1 account, and administered entirely by me. I have quite a few posts on this blog, so I would of course want to import them to any new blog, and there's the rub. Some time ago, I tried to import everything to a new Drupal site, using this importer. To make a long story short, it didn't work. (That may not have been entirely the fault of the importer; it might have been something with my local MySQL and/or PHP setup.) But now I'm thinking, more and more, that I don't want to trust Google too much. With the direction they've been going in lately, I could see them, at some point, trying to fold Blogger into Google+, and I *really* don't want that!
It doesn't really bother me that this is happening, but it's one more little thing that makes me revisit the idea of moving this blog to Drupal or WordPress, hosted on my 1&1 account, and administered entirely by me. I have quite a few posts on this blog, so I would of course want to import them to any new blog, and there's the rub. Some time ago, I tried to import everything to a new Drupal site, using this importer. To make a long story short, it didn't work. (That may not have been entirely the fault of the importer; it might have been something with my local MySQL and/or PHP setup.) But now I'm thinking, more and more, that I don't want to trust Google too much. With the direction they've been going in lately, I could see them, at some point, trying to fold Blogger into Google+, and I *really* don't want that!
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