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Wednesday, July 23, 2003 |
Public weblog portability. I was e-mailing with xian about the portability of weblogs and how to maintain presence online. Sure, there is nothing you can do if the people who own the domain you are using shut down your weblog or go out of business, however, there is alot that can be done. Like what? Here are some ideas for a service that would be really useful:
- First, I would start with single repository of weblogs where the owner of the weblog can change the location of their weblog and other descriptive data by signing into an account. This service would need to be tightly controlled and trusted. If you don't own the domain, your hosting company or hosting sponsor would need to support the account creation. If you don't get this support from the domain owner, you are truly SOL (an old pilot term).
- Second, weblog tools would need to support the option of using this repository as a means of keeping blogrolls and RSS subscriptions up to date. A once a day check for new changes is all it would take.
- Third, this repository would be extremely useful if you could update Google and Yahoo automatically so that search returns on their tools find the intended data. For example: replace jrobb.userland.com with jrobb.mindplex.com. In this case, all the the links to posts made in the past would work. If there was some glitch in the folder structure, it couldn't get much worse that 100% 404 errors.
What do we call this? A FOAF identity service with a centralized editing component? How does this synch with P3P? [John Robb's Weblog]
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