There really should be a standard of some sort that blog CMS companies can agree on for export and import. Users of blog engines shouldn’t be hostages to their applications. Data exit and entry is problematic in everything I’ve used and it’s a shame. Blogging is supposed to be fun and I prefer to be agnostic about what tools I’m using, so it’d be nice if I could change blog engines every three months without too much friction. I won’t even go into how every engine has its own URL scheme — it’d be nice if I could keep my permalinks forever, even as I change blogging apps.
A Whole Lotta Nothing – Bottom line, all weblog apps suck in some way.
It’s for this reason that I like Tumblr. Once I’m done my current side-project, I want to write a ‘TumblrDumpr’ via it’s wonderfully accessible API, assuming it’s as functional as I’ve been assuming.
Solution: Avoid platforms that don’t let you programmatically retrieve & update your content for you.
With wordpress you could presumably crawl your own database, which I gather would only be slightly more work to write - all you need is that first person to release their script.
