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[mdlbear]

I don't think a real LJ exodus has started yet, but I've seen several people moving or preparing to move. I now have accounts on greatestjournal and insanejournal (where I paid $35 to become "permanently insane". So far I don't have any posts at either of them.

At some point, my plan is to post to an entirely local and personal blog on my home system, push it out to steve.savitzky.net, and push it from to the *journals, possibly with some filtering by tag. I expect that posts will be files with RFC822-style headers and HTML bodies -- this will give the same editing experience as the ljupdate (emacs) client, at least in its current hacked-up state, and an extensible place to put metadata.

The closest things I've seen are nanoblogger (which uses 822 headers), blosxom, and ikiwiki, but I'll probably end up stealing a little code from each of them, and doing the multi-blog stuff myself.

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[mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com]

If you go, I will miss you.

[mdlbear]

I'm not planning to leave -- a major part of the exercise is to have an easy way of making a single post that ends up on all of the major blogging systems I belong to. Filtering friends lists to avoid duplication could also get to be a problem, but I'll worry about that later.