I’ve fought the good fight. Since 2001 I’ve blogged exclusively via Blogger. It’s been a good run. Blogger made blogging easy, and maintenance was  a non-issue, but all good things must come to an end.

Google has decided to reign in the Blogger community and put all of our content under one umbrella. All the better to protect us and our content no doubt. The initial response from the blogging masses was not favorable. Google’s move to sequester their very own corner of the Blogosphere had the immediate effect of disenfranchising hundreds, if not thousands, of blogs catering to readers and publishers in China. Since blogs hosted on Google-owned domains are blocked in the PRC it will be “as if a million voices cried out and were suddenly silenced.”

Closer to home, my own blogs have been clipped off from other content on the domains I own. Sure, clumsy page redirects and some creative scripting could have resolved this, but at what cost?

Fortunately, the Blogger team at Google prepped the community in advance, and made a good effort towards helping us export our blogs if that’s what we chose to do, and I did.

So here we are, nine years later in 2010 and I’ve finally moved over to Wordpress. A little spit, a little polish, and a bit of PHP hacking and we’re back up and running!

So long Blogger, and thanks for all the fish.