Today I migrated all of the entries from my old blog at LiveJournal over to this Blogger account.
To do so, I used a cunning little tool called lj2blogger. You can read a bit about it here and download it from here. Be warned, though, it does require the Microsoft .NET Framework.
The migration went very well, although some formatting got a little bit messed up. I’ll clean that up bit by bit as and when I get time. On the other hand, I might not. 
Those of you who use RSS feeds might find that the order of the articles is a little bit strange for a while. That is because Blogger feeds the most recently edited articles rather than the most recently dated articles.
So, why Blogger? Blogger is completely free, and does not require me to upgrade my account in order to use advanced features like LiveJournal and WordPress. Blogger is also simple and it works well. I was reminded of the baroque complexity of LiveJournal when working with my old blog earlier this evening. Finally, Blogger is a Google product. I like Google and, perhaps foolishly, I trust them. They are not Evil.
Some people I know tried to “beat the beta” and migrated to WordPress when they realised that Blogger was undergoing changes. WordPress is very nice. It offers some features that I would like and has historically embraced new technologies before Blogger has. Nevertheless, my experience of the conversion to New Blogger has been very pleasant. Everything went smoothly and I have had no problems with the new system, even when it was in beta.
The point is that selecting a technology platform always constitutes taking a bet. Sometimes you will be ahead and sometimes behind but, as time passes, you have to hope that your selection will give you the best average performance. That is what made me bet on Blogger.
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